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International Medals for NZ Student Programmers
Monday, 1 August 2011
Two New Zealand secondary school students have won medals at a prestigious international computer programming competition held in Pattaya, Thailand.
The two were part of a four member NZ team to attend the world’s premier High School programming competition. The team selected to represent NZ consisted of Logan Glasson (Burnside High School, Christchurch), Jamie McCloskey (Canterbury University), Tom Levy (Hillcrest High, Hamilton) and Tony Sun (Christ’s College, Christchurch). Glasson and McCloskey both received bronze medals at the closing ceremony on July 28.
The annual International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI) features over 300 of the world’s top computer science high school students who are selected through national computing contests. 250,000 young people from over 80 countries compete each year to represent their country at the IOI. Glasson won bronze in 2010 whilst McCloskey has previously won bronze medals in 2009 and 2010.
The NZ team was accompanied by Team Leader, Margot Phillipps, director of the NZ Olympiad in Informatics and Deputy Team Leader, Robert Bowmaker. This year’s competition was particularly tough. Bowmaker commented “I’m very pleased that New Zealand has performed so well despite our small population. The students have ranked amongst the best and brightest students in the world, and their results are testament to their hard work”.
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