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Announcements

ZCO-2023 and ZIO-2023 results announced, INOI-2023 on 5 February  ...

India wins two medals at EGOI-2022  ...

India win four medals at IOI-2022, three medals at APIO-2022  ...

About the Indian Computing Olympiad

The Indian Computing Olympiad is a nationwide competition organized

annually by IARCS. The goal of the competition is to identify school students
with outstanding skills in algorithms and computer programming.

The Indian Computing Olympiad is used to select the team of four students
to represent India at the International Olympiad for Informatics (IOI). IOI is
one of the twelve international Science Olympiads held annually. Other
prominent Science Olympiads include Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Biology and Astronomy.

Eligibility

The Indian Computing Olympiad is open to all school students across the
country, from any school board. Any student registered in school upto class
12 during the academic year 2022-2023 is eligible to take part in ICO during
2022-2023. There is no lower age limit for participation.
To participate, you must still be in school. If you have completed Class 12,
you are no longer eligible, even if you have taken a break and are not
enrolled in college, or if are planning to redo your Class 12 exams for
improvement.

Registration

Registration dates for ZIO-2023 will open around 1 October, 2022.

Registration dates for ZCO-2023 will be announced shortly.

Stages

The first round of the Indian Computing Olympiad is in two parts.

The Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO) is a written exam held at centres

across the country. ZIO-2023 was held on 4 December, 2022.

The Zonal Computing Olympiad (ZCO) is a programming exam held at

centres across the country. The programming languages supported are C,
C++, Java and Python. ZCO is normally held in November-December. ZCO-
2023 will be held on 8 January, 2023.

Students can write either ZIO or ZCO or both and qualify through either
exam for the second round.

The second round, the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI)

involves programming. The only programming language allowed for
INOI is C++. INOI-2023 will be held on 5 February, 2023.

Approximately 30 students are selected from INOI for the IOI Training Camp
(IOITC). IOITC is normally organized in May or June. IOITC-2022 was held
during 14–19 June, 2022.

IOI-2022 was hosted by Indonesia. IOI-2023 will be hosted by Hungary

How to prepare for ICO

The syllabus for ZIO and ZCO is the list of Basic Topics in the Online Study
Material  ...

INOI-2022 will have a new structure and expanded syllabus  ...

Go through the Online Study Material for ICO.

Mentoring programme for ZCO, INOI and IOITC by past IOITC participants
 ...

Preparatory material for ICO on CodeChef  ...

ICO Learning Program to prepare for ICO, weekly sessions by CodeChef

volunteers  ...
 Solve problems online at the IARCS Problems Archive  ...

Commonlounge community archives  ...

Incentives for students

Codechef conducts a monthly programming contest Lunch Time through

Codechef for Schools and offers incentives for IOI through the Go for Gold
for IOI programme  ...

The following academic institutions in India have special admission

procedures for ICO students.

Chennai Mathematical Institute offers direct admission to students selected

for IOITC in Class 11 or 12  ...

IIIT Delhi offers bonus points to students selected for INOI and IOITC  ...

IIIT Hyderabad offers admission via the Olympiad category to students

selected for IOITC  ...

IIT Gandhinagar offers admission via the Olympiad category to students

selected for IOITC  ...

The following international academic institutions have special admission

procedures for IOI students.

The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada, offers Michael

and Ophelia Lazaridis Olympiad Scholarships to IOI medallists  ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has a scholarship

scheme for IOI gold medallists  ...

Nanyang Technical University (NTU), Singapore exempts IOI medallists

from writing the entrance exam  ...

National University of Singapore (NUS) offers special consideration for IOI

medallists  ...

Contact

Please write to Madhavan Mukund, National Coordinator, Indian Computing

Olympiad at ico@iarcs.org.in if you have any questions or clarifications.

Our partners

The Indian Computing Olympiad is held in partnership with:

 Sasken Technologies, who sponsor the IOI Training Camp and the travel
expenses for the Indian team to IOI.

Tata Consultancy Services, whose TCS iON platform is used to conduct ZIO.

CodeChef, whose platform is used to conduct ZCO and INOI.

ACM India, who provide administrative support.

From 2001-2002 to 2013-2014, ZIO and INOI were coordinated through the
Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE). ZCO-2016, INOI-2016 and
ZCO-2017 were held on the TCS iON platform. Jed-i provided administrative
support from 2013 to 2015.

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