Polish Olympiad in Informatics - 14 Years of Experience
Krzysztof Diks, Marcin Kubica, Krzysztof Stencel · 2007
This paper presents the organization of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics, together with tasks preparation process and evaluation. It is a result of over 14 years of experience in organization of programming contests for high-school pupils. We believe, that although described procedures are rather widely know, their rigorous implementation is the key to organization of a successful programming contest. competition. The second stage is organized in six regional centers, located at universities cooperat- ing with POI and takes three days. The first day is a preparation day - the contestants have to solve one or two tasks during a three hour session, however the results do not count in the competition. The objective of the preparation day is twofold: first, the contestants can get familiar with the environment, second, the organizers can verify that everything is ready. During the second and third day, the contestants have to solve two or three tasks during five hour sessions. The solutions are collected from all the centers and then eval- uated. Preliminary results are usually known a couple of hours after the competition is