High School Programming Olympiads in Gomel Region

Abstract

This article describes the content of programming competitions for students in grades 9–11 of the Gomel region. A general idea of the thematic content of the tasks and examples of tasks by topic are given. The methodology of teaching and preparing schoolchildren for such Olympiads is also briefly described. A serious technical basis is the instrumental system of distance learning developed under the supervision of the author (http://dl.gsu.by). The paper presents very good results of Gomel schoolchildren in International Olympiad in Informatics. The main contribution of the paper is share our successful long-term experience in preparing schoolchildren for Olympiads in informatics.