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Four students to represent India at informatics olympiad

Staff Reporter

It is one of the most recognised computer science competitions in the world

BANGALORE: Four students have been selected to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics to be held in Mexico later this year.

They are Kshitij Bansal and Harpreet Singh of Apeejay School, Noida; Prateek Karandikar of Mother's International, Delhi; and Swarun Kumar of P.S. Senior Secondary School, Chennai. Their names were announced at an "Indian National Olympiad in Informatics-2006" a function held on the premises of Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd. here on Thursday.

The Indian olympiad is a nationwide competition organised annually by Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) in co-ordination with Central Board of Secondary Education.

"We are extremely happy for getting a chance to represent India at the international olympiad. We now know that hard work really pays," the students said.

Kshitij Bansal and Harpreet Singh said they had represented India at the international olympiad in Greece in 2004 and Poland in 2005.

The goal of the competition is to identify school students, with outstanding skills in algorithms and computer programming.

The winners will represent India at the international olympiad in informatics, which is one among the eight olympiads in the world.

Of the 6,300 participants from around 500 schools in the country, as many as 250 were shortlisted and 27 chosen for the training camp held from June 14 to 29 at International School, Bangalore. The four students were selected after several programming contests. "We are motivating these wonder kids to bag the gold medal at the olympiad and bring the country pride. As a standby, we have chosen two more students, Paresh N.G. and Harikrishnan," he said.

On the selection process, Madhavan Mukund, secretary of IARCS and national coordinator of the international olympiad, said rigorous rounds of tests were held to select the best four.

The olympiad is one of the most recognised computer science competitions in the world. Although the competition tasks are of an algorithm nature, the contestants have to show basic skills in problem analysis, design of the algorithm, data structure, as well as programming and testing of solutions.

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