Baltic Computer Science Olympiad
The Baltic computer science Olympiad ( English Baltic Olympiad in Informatics - BOI ) is a full registered annual computer science contest for students. The first BOI was founded in 1995 by the heads of the IOI teams from the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 2010 the 16th BOI took place in Tartu , Estonia, the venue for the first BOI. Germany has been participating since 2001.
Participants are primarily the countries bordering the Baltic Sea, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Sweden; however, guests from other countries also take part, for example from Norway, Hungary and the USA. In addition, apart from competition, participants from all countries can take part online.
Each country can send up to six participants, the host country can send an additional team into the race.
An important goal of the BOI is to give participants the opportunity to gain experience to participate in an international competition before taking part in the International Computer Science Olympiad (IOI). The BOI is also part of the national selection process for the IOI.
Course of the competition
On the day of arrival, the participants will be familiarized with the existing equipment and the competition rules and will already carry out two test tasks that will not be counted. On the two days of the competition, three tasks must be solved within 5 hours. The type and difficulty of the competition tasks and the conditions for awarding medals are the same as at the IOI .
List of venues
The following 22 BOIs have taken place so far:
- 1995 in Tartu , Estonia
- 1996 in Riga , Latvia
- 1998 in Tartu, Estonia
- 1999 in Riga, Latvia
- 2000 in Haninge , Sweden
- 2001 in Sopot , Poland
- 2002 in Vilnius , Lithuania
- 2003 in Tartu, Estonia
- 2004 in Ventspils , Latvia
- 2005 in Pasvalys , Lithuania
- 2006 in Heinola , Finland
- 2007 in Güstrow , Germany
- 2008 in Gdynia , Poland
- 2009 in Stockholm , Sweden
- 2010 in Tartu, Estonia
- 2011 in Lyngby , Denmark
- 2012 in Ventspils, Latvia
- 2013 in Rostock , Germany
- 2014 in Palanga , Lithuania
- 2015 in Warsaw , Poland
- 2016 in Helsinki , Finland
- 2017 in Bergen , Norway
participation
In Germany, the BOI is part of the national selection process for the IOI. The best six from the previous competition rounds of this procedure are allowed to participate in the BOI.
Gold medals of the German team
- 2005: Erik Panzer
- 2007: Julian Fischer, Martin Maas
- 2009: Fabian Gundlach
- 2010: Fabian Gundlach
- 2015: Felix Bauckholt
See also
- Science Olympiad
- International Olympiad in Computer Science
- Central European Computer Science Olympiad
- USACO