Registration for OCI 2023 is now open
October, 2023. The Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI) opens its inscriptions for the 2023 version, which will have a first compulsory classification phase, which will be held simultaneously in 11 venues throughout Chile on Saturday, October 21.
The Chilean Informatics Olympiad is a programming competition for students from 7th grade to 4th grade, in which participants must solve programming problems. It consists of a series of timed competitions, in which they must solve a set of 4 or more problems that test their knowledge of computer science, algorithms, logic, mathematics, programming techniques, among others.
Competitors must write programs to solve the problems, which will be evaluated by assigning scores according to how good the solution submitted is. The accepted programming languages are C++ and Java.
This year's competition will be carried out in stages: The first phase will be a nationally distributed competition, which will take place on Saturday, October 21, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and will be held within the context of the Chilean Computing Conference. This competition will be held simultaneously in 11 presential venues:
- Arica: Universidad de Tarapacá
- Coquimbo: Universidad Central
- Valparaíso: Federico Santa María Technical University
- Santiago:
- Rancagua: Universidad de O'Higgins
- Talca: Universidad Católica del Maule
- Chillán: Universidad del Bío-Bío
- Concepción: Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception
- Temuco: Catholic University of Temuco
- Puerto Montt: Universidad Austral de Chile
Additionally, in this edition of the OCI , an online venue will be implemented for those interested who cannot participate in person: only students whose region of residence does not have a registered venue, or whose venue no longer has spaces available, will be accepted to participate online. Those who require an exception due to force majeure can write to corporacionc100@gmail.com to request a review of the case.
From this regional competition, students will qualify to participate in the second phase, the national final, to be held on December 15 and 16.
In this December final, the national champions are defined, and also the team that will receive the special training from which the national team that will represent Chile in the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) 2024 is formed. International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) 2024 in the city of Alexandria, Egypt.
Registrations can be made online at this link and close on October 18.
The Chilean Informatics Olympiad has been held since 2013, organized by the Chilean Society of Computer Science.. This edition is organized by the Chilean Society of Computer Science, is supported by the Millennium Institute Fundamentals of Data and sponsored by NTT Data, Huawei, Zero, Synopsys and País Digital.
The ICO is part of the outreach activities supported by the Millennium Science Initiative. Millennium Science Initiative.
