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After an extremely challenging year, on Saturday, November 25th, the National Final of the XI Chilean Informatic Olympics (OCI) was held in Santiago, with 25 students from 12 to 18 years old, of which 35% were girls.
After four hours of competition, the 10 national champions emerged: six Bronze Medals, three Silver Medals, and one Gold Medal. The great difference this year is the large presence of students from public or subsidized schools, and also from the regions: four of the six distinctions were obtained by students from different provinces, including the Gold Medalist Matías Nova, a student at the Liceo Bicentenario de Excelencia Polivalente San Nicolás, in Ñuble.
“I am from Coelemu, a town in the Ñuble region, and I had not participated in the OCI before. I found out about it at the beginning of the year thanks to a friend I met at the Math Olympics and he helped me to prepare for the competition. In addition, I trained in the OCI Labs Online workshops,” said the national champion.
As a demonstration of the increase in the participation of women in STEM, three of the nine girls who competed in the national final obtained Bronze Medals. “It is very interesting to meet new women and more diverse people as the years go by in this type of activity, you feel much more accompanied,” said Paula Carrión, from Santiago, one of the medalists.
In four hours of competition, the students must solve four problems using programming. These challenges are prepared according to the international standards of the International Informatics Olympics (IOI) and they can range from efficiently solving distance and time problems to encryption and decryption, among others.
“We are very happy because we were finally able to return to face-to-face and recover one of the most important values of the OCI: that the children meet more people who have their same interest, programming, and live together a new experience”, states Federico Meza, academic at the Federico Santa University and a member of the board of the Chilean Informatics Olympics. Meza also highlights that one of the lessons learned from the pandemic is having held the workshops online, a key element that explains why girls and boys from the regions have been able to join the competition along with those who attended regional workshops at the venues of different universities throughout the country.
The OCI seeks to foster early interest in computing and bring computational thinking closer to students. Its main objective is to discover and promote young talents early and encourage them to immerse themselves in the world of programming. The initiative is led by the Chilean Society of Computer Science and has the collaboration of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. This year the OCI had the support of the companies SOVOS, NTT DATA, CERO, Synopsys, and the University of Concepción.
The 10 winners now make up the National Computer Science Team, and they will train intensively to choose the four representatives for the 35th International Informatics Olympics, to be held in Hungary in 2023.
GOLD MEDAL
Matías Nova Baza, Liceo Bicentenario Polivalente San Nicolás de Ñuble, Región de Ñuble
SILVER MEDALS
Matías Felipe Oteiza Vargas, The Greenland School, Santiago, Región Metropolitana
Javier Ignacio Calfuala Villa, Liceo Bicentenario Padre Alberto Hurtado, Loncoche, Región de La Araucanía
Guillermo Andrés Campos Fuentes, Centro Educacional Fernando de Aragón, Puente Alto, Región Metropolitana
BRONZE MEDALS
Paula Antonia Carrión Valdés, The Angels School, Ñuñoa, Región Metropolitana
Sofía Alejandra Muñoz Cordero, Liceo Bicentenario Técnico Las Nieves, Puente Alto, Región Metropolitana
Catalina Monserrat Isabel Díaz Cofré, Liceo N°7 Luisa Saavedra, Providencia, Región Metropolitana
Leandro Manuel Parada Contreras, San Fernando College, San Fernando, Región de O’Higgins
Edgardo Antonio León González, Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Providencia, Región Metropolitana
Juan Pablo Peñafiel Aguilera, Francis School, Coquimbo, Región de CoquimboAfter an extremely challenging year, on Saturday, November 25th, the National Final of the XI Chilean Informatic Olympics (OCI) was held in Santiago, with 25 students from 12 to 18 years old, of which 35% were girls.
After four hours of competition, the 10 national champions emerged: six Bronze Medals, three Silver Medals, and one Gold Medal. The great difference this year is the large presence of students from public or subsidized schools, and also from the regions: four of the six distinctions were obtained by students from different provinces, including the Gold Medalist Matías Nova, a student at the Liceo Bicentenario de Excelencia Polivalente San Nicolás, in Ñuble.
“I am from Coelemu, a town in the Ñuble region, and I had not participated in the OCI before. I found out about it at the beginning of the year thanks to a friend I met at the Math Olympics and he helped me to prepare for the competition. In addition, I trained in the OCI Labs Online workshops,” said the national champion.
As a demonstration of the increase in the participation of women in STEM, three of the nine girls who competed in the national final obtained Bronze Medals. “It is very interesting to meet new women and more diverse people as the years go by in this type of activity, you feel much more accompanied,” said Paula Carrión, from Santiago, one of the medalists.
In four hours of competition, the students must solve four problems using programming. These challenges are prepared according to the international standards of the International Informatics Olympics (IOI) and they can range from efficiently solving distance and time problems to encryption and decryption, among others.
“We are very happy because we were finally able to return to face-to-face and recover one of the most important values of the OCI: that the children meet more people who have their same interest, programming, and live together a new experience”, states Federico Meza, academic at the Federico Santa University and a member of the board of the Chilean Informatics Olympics. Meza also highlights that one of the lessons learned from the pandemic is having held the workshops online, a key element that explains why girls and boys from the regions have been able to join the competition along with those who attended regional workshops at the venues of different universities throughout the country.
The OCI seeks to foster early interest in computing and bring computational thinking closer to students. Its main objective is to discover and promote young talents early and encourage them to immerse themselves in the world of programming. The initiative is led by the Chilean Society of Computer Science and has the collaboration of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. This year the OCI had the support of the companies SOVOS, NTT DATA, CERO, Synopsys, and the University of Concepción.
The 10 winners now make up the National Computer Science Team, and they will train intensively to choose the four representatives for the 35th International Informatics Olympics, to be held in Hungary in 2023.
GOLD MEDAL
Matías Nova Baza, Liceo Bicentenario Polivalente San Nicolás de Ñuble, Región de Ñuble
SILVER MEDALS
Matías Felipe Oteiza Vargas, The Greenland School, Santiago, Región Metropolitana
Javier Ignacio Calfuala Villa, Liceo Bicentenario Padre Alberto Hurtado, Loncoche, Región de La Araucanía
Guillermo Andrés Campos Fuentes, Centro Educacional Fernando de Aragón, Puente Alto, Región Metropolitana
BRONZE MEDALS
Paula Antonia Carrión Valdés, The Angels School, Ñuñoa, Región Metropolitana
Sofía Alejandra Muñoz Cordero, Liceo Bicentenario Técnico Las Nieves, Puente Alto, Región Metropolitana
Catalina Monserrat Isabel Díaz Cofré, Liceo N°7 Luisa Saavedra, Providencia, Región Metropolitana
Leandro Manuel Parada Contreras, San Fernando College, San Fernando, Región de O’Higgins
Edgardo Antonio León González, Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de Providencia, Región Metropolitana
Juan Pablo Peñafiel Aguilera, Francis School, Coquimbo, Región de Coquimbo
