Chile already has representatives for the International Informatics Olympiad 2022 in Indonesia
August, 2022 - Diego Rebollo, Marcelo Lemus, Diego Arias and Benjamín Oyarzún. Diego Rebollo, Marcelo Lemus, Diego Arias and Benjamín Oyarzún, four of the national champions of the X Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI), will be in charge of representing Chile in the 34th International Informatics Olympiad (OCI ). 34th International Informatics Olympiadwhich will be held in August of this year in Indonesia.
These four selected teams emerged from an intensive training in which all the national champions participated, where they were motivated and generated interest in competitive programming until they reached the international competition.
One of the selected students, Diego Rebollo, said he was nervous at the beginning of the OCI: "I had a couple of problems but I ended up getting what I needed. I am happy for what I have achieved, now I hope to perform well in the International Olympiad and hopefully become one of the medalists," said the student who is currently in high school.
The National Olympiad invites students from all parts of the country to become interested in programming. "In Chile it is difficult to learn about this world because it is not present in schools, besides, today more than ever more programmers are needed for the future", said Javier Marinkovic, Coordinator of the OCI, during the day of the selection to participate in these upcoming Olympics.
In this final, the female participation stood out: although Pau Carrión was not selected to go to the competition in Indonesia, she specified that she has been participating in the OCI since 2018 and that "it was always a goal to reach this instance", demonstrating that the important thing is to enjoy the process and that the results do not define the participants.
Although the OCI had no major problems due to the pandemic and the online format, "these two years were difficult, because we liked the original modality of this competition much more. But if we look at it positively, this time we were able to have the participation of students from different regions of Chile, from places that cannot be reached in person," said Mirankovic, to show the positive aspect of what these years of virtual format were.
One of the four selected, Marcelo Lemus, is from Salamanca, a town in the Coquimbo region. During the final selection, he pointed out that in general "children from outside Santiago are not so well supported due to the distance, but I invite them to take heart because the OCI workshops open their doors for them to participate".
Now the four selected contestants are preparing to leave for Indonesia, where the International Computer Olympiad 2022 will be held, which each year receives - from each country in the world - a delegation of four contestants and two responsible adults to accompany them. Those selected will compete individually, where they must solve a series of programming problems over a period of two days. The students will demonstrate their ability to design algorithms, data structures, among others.
our sponsors for the IOI 2022 were
- the companies: Sovos, Cero.ai, Synopsys
- the University of Concepción
- the Chilean Society of Computer Science
strictly speaking, the SCCC is the entity that supports the OCI, that is, the OCI is "an initiative of" or "organized by" the SCCC because they officially represent the IOI in Chile.
The Chilean Computer Science Olympiad is an initiative of the Chilean Society of Computer Science that takes place every year and is supported by the companies Sovos, Cero.ai, Synopsys, the University of Concepción and the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).
