Ashraf AboArafe
The Saudi Informatics Team returned to the homeland yesterday, after a successful participation in which it won two international medals at the International Informatics Olympiad (IIO), which was held in the city of Alexandria in the Arab Republic of Egypt, from September 1 to 8, bringing the Kingdom’s tally from this Olympiad to 8 awards, including 6 bronze medals and two certificates of appreciation.
The student Adeeb Salem Ali Al-Shahri, from the Eastern Education, won the bronze medal, and the student Ahmed Saleh bin Taher Al-Hashem, from the Al-Ahsa Education, won the bronze medal, after a fierce competition with 364 male and female students representing 96 countries participating in this global event.
This achievement is the culmination of the training and qualification journey that Saudi students spent in the training camps held by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) for the national team inside and outside the Kingdom, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, and sponsored by Elm Company.
The Informatics Olympiad is organized as an annual international competitive programming competition for high school students, and is considered one of the oldest computer science competitions in the world, as it was held for the first time in the world in 1989 in Bulgaria under the auspices of UNESCO and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
