Who We Are

NZOI is organised by a group of people who are keen to share their enjoyment of informatics with New Zealand students. This group includes teachers, professional programmers, and university students. Many in the group have been through the NZOI training programme and competed in an International Olympiad in Informatics.

The group runs a programming contest which has several events throughout the year. It also holds a training camp in January each year to which the top programming students are invited.

The group relies heavily on sponsorship from tertiary organisations and business. The sponsorship subsidises the society’s activities including the supervising adults who are required to accompany the students selected to compete in the international olympiad event. In recent years we have been very fortunate to have the generous support of Jane Street.

Objectives

The society provides training opportunities in Informatics to selected New Zealand students who are currently enrolled in a New Zealand secondary school. The society selects, from those it has trained, students to attend the International Olympiad in Informatics. The society endeavours to foster informatics in New Zealand secondary schools. The society aims to be a non-profit group with all funds going to fulfill the purposes above.

Results

The 2025 IOI was held in Sucre, Bolivia in the first week of September.

The four NZ contestants for IOI 2025 were Victor Coen (Mount Albert Grammar School), Tymon Mieskowski (Long Bay College), Boliang (Eric) Liu (Macleans College) and Jiahong (Kai) Yu (Pinehurst School). They were accompanied by Nicholas Grace and Ravid Aharon as the team leaders.

Victor and Tymon both placed in the high bronze range, with Tymon having the second highest bronze score.

Pictured L to R, waiting for the Awards ceremony: Victor, Eric, Kai, Tymon