Computer Science students win international award
04 August 2011
UC student Jamie McCloskey and former STAR student Logan Glasson (Burnside High School) have both won bronze medals at the prestigious International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) competition in Pattaya, Thailand.
Celebrating success at the International Olympiad on Informatics are (from left) Robert Bowmaker (NZ team deputy leader), Tom Levy, Tony Sun, Jamie McCloskey, Logan Glasson, Margot Phillipps (NZ team leader) and their guide, Sinat Kimyong.
UC student Jamie McCloskey and former STAR student Logan Glasson (Burnside High School) have both won bronze medals at the prestigious International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) competition in Pattaya, Thailand.
As members of the New Zealand team with Tony Sun (Christ’s College) and Tom Levy (Hillcrest High, Hamilton), Jamie and Logan competed with more than 300 of the world’s top computer science high school students from over 80 countries. Tony is a current student of STAR, UC’s extension programme for secondary school students, while Logan and James are former STAR students.
The IOI contest is two days of computer programming, solving problems of an algorithmic nature. On each of the two competition days, the students are typically given four problems which they have to solve in five hours. With only a computer Jamie and Logan had to write a computer program (in C, C++ or Pascal) and submit it before the five hour competition time ends. Jamie, who is studying towards a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics, has previously won bronze medals in 2009 and 2010.
The New Zealand team, led by Margot Phillipps, director of the NZ Olympiad in Informatics, was sponsored by UC’s College of Engineering and mentored by Associate Professor Tim Bell (Computer Science and Software Engineering).
Ms Phillipps said that she is very proud of all the team members.
“This year’s team members have all worked and practised assiduously. The results are extremely respectable in the context of the world’s toughest high school informatics competition. New Zealand students are relatively young, so I am very pleased that we have continued to win medals in this prestigious contest.”
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