Congratulations and Good Luck,
Kshitij, Harpreet, Rahul and Shreevatsa.
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"Only extra-ordinary people can produce extra-ordinary results
and to create extra-ordinary people, we need to start investing in
them when they are young."

G.Ventakesh,
CTO,
Sasken Communication Technologies
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Kshitij Bansal of Apeejay School, Noida, Harpreet Singh, also of
Apeejay School, Noida, N.S.Rahul of Padma Seshadri Senior Secondary
School, Chennai and Shreevatsa R. of National Pre-University College,
Bangalore have been selected to represent India at the International
Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Athens in September 2004, according
to a press note issued by the Central Board of Secondary Education,
New Delhi on July 7, 2004 (http://cbse.nic.in/public.htm).
The Indian National Olympiad in Informatics, 2004 (INOI-2004) was
held on Saturday, May 1, 2004. The Zonal Informatics Olympiad, 2004
(ZIO-2004) was held on Saturday, January 31, 2004. Over 5,600
students participated in it at 34 centres in India and 2 in West
Asia. 204 students qualified for INOI 2004. Out of these 22 students
qualified for the training camp.
The IOI is one of the six Science Olympiads held in annually. The
Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS)
(http://www.iarcs.org.in) organises it in co-ordination with Central
Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) (http://cbse.nic.in/public.htm ).
The event was supported by Nasscom (http://www.nasscom.org), Sasken
(http://www..sasken.com) and The International School, Bangalore
(http://www.tisb.edu.in).
India won 3 bronze medals at IOI 2003 held at the University of
Wisconsin-Parkside, USA in August 2003. India was represented by
Ishan Behoora, Swamendu Datta, and Indraneel Mukherjee. The leader of
the contingent was Prof. Madhvan Mukund of Chennai Mathematical
Institute, Chennai (http://www.cmi.ac.in).
Let us then wish
Good Luck to
Kshitij, Harpreet, Rahul and Shreevatsa
for the forthcoming
International Olympiad in Informatics(IOI) in
Athens, Greece in September 2004.


Dr D.C.Misra