Selected top performers in NOI will undergo further training by NUS School of Computing to compete for four places to represent Singapore at the prestigious International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), the ultimate international competition in computing, to be held in Egypt.

This year, 106 students from 15 junior colleges and 11 secondary schools participated in NOI. Each student was required to solve six algorithmic tasks and to write a working computer program in Pascal, C or C++ for each task.

The competition was held on 5 April 2008 while the results were announced a week later, at the prize-giving ceremony. Ms Tham Ai Chyn, Assistant Chief Executive (Industry & Cluster Development), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, was Guest-of-Honour at the ceremony.

Awards were given to four overall winners, top two secondary school contestants, top two junior colleges and top two secondary schools. A special award was also presented to the youngest medallist. The full winner list may be found here.

Modelled after the IOI, NOI emphasises creativity in problem solving on the one hand, and programming skill and expertise on the other.

The competition also aims to spur interest within the school community, and create more awareness among the students and teachers on the finer points of programming, such as algorithmic techniques and problem-solving skills.

NOI is part of the National Infocomm Competition (NIC) initiated by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
For more information, please visit the NOI website at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~noi/