1st Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO '07)

(Photo Caption: APIO'07 participants from several high school in the Philippines are shown together with the organizers from the Computing Society of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University).

The 1st Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO '07) was held last May 12, 2007.

There were 359 participants from 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific: Australia, Bangladesh, China, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macau, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The contestants from India and New Zealand sat unofficially so they were not eligible for awards.

The top six competitors from each country became the official teams who were eligible for awards.

All the top 6 participants from China got GOLD certificates.

For the SILVER certificates, here is the breakdown:

6 participants from Korea
2 participants from Japan
1 participant from Singapore
1 participant from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)
1 participant from Bangladesh

For the BRONZE certificates, the tally is given below:

8 participants from Thailand (the top 6 from Thailand were shared by 3 contestants)

1 from Sri Lanka
2 from Australia
3 from Singapore
2 from Japan
1 from Macau
1 from Indonesia

The lowest number of points to earn a BRONZE certificate is 145 pts.

The TOP 5 PARTICIPANTS from the PHILIPPINES are as follows:

Jared Asuncion, Ateneo de Manila High School
Alberto de Villa, Philippine Science High School (Main Campus)
Ivan John Clement, Philippine Science High School (Main Campus)
Maria Clarisse Ligunas, Philippine Science High School (Main Campus)
Fabian Lorenzo Dayrit, Ateneo de Manila High School

Note: Jared Asuncion and Alberto de Villa tied for first spot in the the Phillippine Site of the APIO '07 Contest.

The Philippine Site of the APIO '07 was organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines and the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science of Ateneo de Manila University with Dr. Rafael Saldaña as the contest director.

For more details, visit the website http://apio.ateneo.edu


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