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The Olympiad programs are supported by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources through the Science Competitions: Mathematics and Informatics Olympiads grant opportunity. The Olympiad programs are also supported by the Major Partner of the AMT’s Olympiad Program, Jane Street, and Olympiad Program Partner, Optiver.
Departure
— 2 August 2019
The wait at the airport saw the team attempting to maximise the volume of water collected from the faulty tap near gate 10. We also enjoyed Kevin’s amazing commentary on touchscreen air hockey played by two toddlers. It was a true shame that I forgot to take a video of that despite being the keeper of the GoPro.
Timmy’s birthday
— 1 August 2019
Today is my last full day with the IOI team, and what a week it has been. Following a five hour exam where I saw my first splash of the elusive CMS green colour (indicating that we had gotten a full score of 100 on a problem), we went to a nice Cuban cafe where we were joined by Ray Li, who came to pass along some words of wisdom regarding how to handle big exams.
Concave corners
— 31 July 2019
Getting subtasks was a focus for the whole team, with the risk of push-ups if we missed points we should have gotten. Fortunately, everyone was able to score a good amount of points on all the problems and we were spared from having to do push-ups.
Black or Cyan?
— 30 July 2019
Tonight’s game was based off of the first question of today’s exam — given a rectangular grid of squares coloured either black or cyan, find an arrangement using the least number of non-overlapping rectangles which covers all cyan squares and doesn’t cover any black squares.
Wet, Wet, Wet
— 29 July 2019
CEOI day 2 was the trial exam for today. The problems were interesting and more difficult than those in the previous trial exams. After the trial exam we, had our customary frisbee session. This time, we had a person in the middle of the cycle / circle trying to fail the others and replace them.
Phones down, thumbs up
— 28 July 2019
Today was the rest day between the two CEOI days, our rest being a different 5-hour exam… After the exam, we decided to play a bipartite graph version of frisbee, before switching to the even easier cycle graph version, a phenomena Kevin likened to solving subtasks.
Let the games begin
— 27 July 2019
And by guessing the great number of 1011337101 I gained the highest score in the sacred blog game, and hence the privilege of writing the blog post for Day 1…
“Can I write it?”
— 26 July 2019
This blog post accounts for the highlights of the IOI team’s first day of training at the pre-departure camp , as told by IOI team member Tunan Shi. Tunan is representing Australia for the first time, at this year’s IOI he is known as the “clutchmaster” of the team, having won a silver medal in
