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April 23-27, 2003, Tartu, Estonia

About BOI

Baltic Olympiad in Informatics is a computer programming contest for secondary school students. It was started in 1995 by the leaders of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian teams to the International Olympiad in Informatics (also known as the IOI).

The main goal of the BOI is to give the contestants an experience of an international event before they go out to the IOI. Because of this, the structure of the competition and the nature of problems posed are similar to that of the IOI.

Because the BOI has the function of a training camp and a selection round for the team leaders, the atomosphere at the BOI meetings tends to be a bit less competitive than on the IOI (not that it is overly so on the IOI).

Still, for students, the competition is for real, and the problems they have to solve are just as hard as those on the IOI. Experience from the past years suggests that winning a medal on the BOI is perhaps even harder than winning a medal on the IOI.

So far, there have been eight BOIs:

BOI 1995, Tartu, Estonia
teams form Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania participated
BOI 1996, Riga, Latvia
teams form Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania participated
BOI 1997, Vilnius, Lithuania
teams form Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland participated
BOI 1998, Tartu, Estonia
teams form Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden participated
BOI 1999, Riga, Latvia
teams form Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and USA participated
BOI 2000, Haninge, Sweden
teams form Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden participated
BOI 2001, Sopot, Poland
teams form Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden participated
BOI 2002, Vilnius, Lithuania
teams from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden participated