pisayPO 2008

pisayPO (short for "Philippine Science High School Programming Olympiad" is one of the projects I've been trying to put up since 2005, together with the faculty of the PSHS CS Unit. Hopefully, this year we'll be able to launch the first-ever inter-school competition related to pisayPO. So please help us in this cause! Thanks!
Please forward this email to your friends in high school..they might be interested in this :D

Btw, pisay main students are excluded from this. So forward this to your non-pisay HS friends :D

-Ivan Clement

December 23, 2007

Greetings!

We are the Philippine Science High School – Main Campus. We are proud to bring to you “pisayPO 2008,” or the Philippine Science High School Programming Olympiad.

The Olympiad aims to promote an appreciation for computer programming among high school students. It also aims to promote camaraderie and friendship among the participants, which in the long run can lead to healthy intellectual exchange. As with all other competitions, the Olympiad ultimately aims to bring out the best in its participants.

Also, the Olympiad wants to recognize students with high potential in the field of computer programming. It is envisioned in the coming years that the pisayPO will serve as our country’s national eliminations for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Thus, in two or three years, winners of the pisayPO will be trained and sent to the IOI.

The International Olympiad in Informatics in an annual computer programming competition that brings together the best high school student programmers and coaches from all over the world.

The pisayPO, recognizing our country’s potential to capitalize on the IT industry, wants to send the best students to the IOI. In this way, we can encourage a development of the computer science education in our country which, in the long run, will bring us closer to our potential as capitalists of the IT industry.

We wish to invite your students to participate to this first-time event. Your school may form a maximum of two teams, two members each team. Reservation of contest slots will be on a first-come-first served basis; only 30 teams will be accepted.

Teams who will participate to the Olympiad will be given ten (10) programming tasks of varying difficulty (and varying score merits). Teams earn score merits by submitting a program (or source code) that correctly solves a particular task. The team with the most score merits after two (2) hours wins the Olympiad.

For more information regarding the Olympiad, please follow this link.

Once again, we invite you to join pisayPO. Thank you and God bless!

Respectfully yours,

Maria Luisa Capundag

pisayPO Organizing Committee