Australian Informatics Olympiad - Competitions

Competitions

Since its creation in 2005, the AIC (Australian Informatics Competition) is the only pen-and-paper competition organised by the AIOC which does not involve the use of a computer or knowledge of programming. The AIC tests problem-solving skills similar to those used in solving more difficult problems in competitions requiring programming. The questions are of multiple choice and short answer format for optical reading and computer marking. There exist three divisions: Senior (years 11 and 12), Intermediate (years 9 and 10) and Junior (years 7 and 8).

Initiated in 1998, the annual AIO (Australian Informatics Olympiad) is a nation-wide computer programming competition sat by students in early September. The competition is three hours long with three programming questions, and is split into Senior (years 11 and 12) and Intermediate (years 7 to 10) divisions. Based on these results, approximately 25 students are selected to attend a 10-day training school at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Note: From 1998 to 2004, the AIO was termed the AIC, as no pen-and-paper competition existed. In 2005, the old AIC computer science competition was renamed to AIO and the new pen-and-paper competition took the name AIC