Australia’s brightest computer coding students have ‘cracked the code’ to international success – bringing home silver and bronze medals from the prestigious International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) held in Sucre, Bolivia from the 27th of July to the 3rd of August. Informatics is competitive computer programming, using mathematics and coding to solve problems. The IOI
Mat Meriaux, CEO The Board of the Australian Mathematics Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Mat Meriaux as our new Chief Executive Officer. Mat will commence in the role in December 2025. This appointment follows an extensive national and international search conducted over the past six months. The Board was fortunate to consider
27 young Australians to compete on the global stage at International Science Olympiads Twenty-seven of Australia’s most accomplished high school students have been selected to compete in the world’s most difficult science competitions, the International Science, Mathematical and Informatics Olympiads. Representing seven schools from New South Wales, seven from Victoria, three from Queensland and one
Female Australian team to compete at EGOI in Germany Australia is sending a team of four students to Bonn, Germany, to compete in the European Girls Informatics Olympiad (EGOI) from 14 to 20 July 2025. The team was announced by the Australian Maths Trust (AMT) in a virtual event on Tuesday 3 June 2025. The
Australia’s first team for the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) has been announced, with four female high school students heading to the Netherlands to compete from 21-27 July 2024. EGOI, a competitive computer programming contest, has been the premier opportunity for young women to test their skills and knowledge since its launch in 2021.
AMT and ISI are thrilled to announce the teams for the 2023 International Olympiads. The CEO delivered an inspiring speech to the talented Olympians, emphasising the crucial elements of confidence, creativity, and the unwavering belief in their own problem-solving capabilities. Read his empowering speech below. Thank you, Graham. On behalf of the Board, staff and
Six of Australia’s brightest mathematics students have this week participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Norway, where their results have just seen Australia rank 29th out of the 104 countries that took part, achieving five medals and an Honourable Mention for their efforts. The six students from schools in NSW and Victoria, ranging
In its 5th year participating at the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO), the 2022 Australian EGMO team of Grace Chang Yuan, Cloris Xu, Eunsu Choi, and Iris Xu have truly outdone themselves. With scores placing them 6th, 12th, 15th and 20th individually out of 222 contestants. Each one of them has brought home a highly coveted gold medal and contributed to Australia’s incredible 3rd place among 57 teams from Europe and around the world!
The problems of this year’s EGMO contest proved to be the most challenging since Australia first participated in 2018. It turns out, however, that we only have ourselves to blame as the first problem on both the day 1 and day 2 papers were proposed by Australia! As challenging as the problems were, every team
It’s been over a year since the Australian contingent has seen each other face-to-face and it’s been a tough and somewhat isolated year of training online. While we have been quite protected from the coronavirus on this island of ours down under, we have not been spared snap lockdowns and border closures between our states.
Hi my name is Will and I represented Australia as AUS 4 in the 61st International Mathematical Olympiad which was, for the first time ever, held remotely from St. Petersburg, Russia. I’ll be telling you a bit about the Australian team’s experience at the IMO this year. Before the commencement of the IMO competition days,
Remember last year, how Joshua, the team leader for 2019, forced me to write the first IOI blog post and then claimed that I wanted to write it? Well, this year, I was *persuaded* to do it. There is a very big distinction to make here. Once again, we see a prime example of how
Over a nail-biting 40 hours, the scoreboard for EGMO 2020 was populated with scores from this year’s 52 participating countries. It was certainly fun sitting at the top of the leaderboard for such a long time while all of Europe slept. In the end, it was only in the final hour that medal cut-offs could
With Day 1 of the contest starting at noon, the Australian team didn’t stay up until midnight to watch the EGMO 2020 virtual opening ceremony as it went live. However, we did all enjoy getting together online in the morning to watch teams from all around the world flash by on our screens to mark
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