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May 11, 2021
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has announced the South African team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2021), where informatics students from around the world will compete against each other in June this year.
The team of four was selected after a lengthy process in which the top participants in the IITPSA Computer Programming Olympiad 2020 were trained and prepared for the IOI over several months.
After preliminary training rounds at UCT, the four members of the South African team were selected recently.
They are: Andi Qu (18), formerly of St John’s College and now working prior to studying at MIT. Andi has taken part in two previous IOI contests. The first was in person in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2019. In the 2020 IOI, he took part online from Stellenbosch University and earned a strong bronze medal, scoring above two thirds of the 441 IOI contestants from 87 countries.
Science whizz-kids on the world stage
By Tanya Waterworth
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Durban - Two of KZN s science whizz-kids will represent South Africa against other top young scientists on the world stage.
Faran Steenkamp from Kloof will compete in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Singapore in June. This week, it was also announced that Suhaan Singh,16, would represent South Africa in the 2021 Virtual Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in the US next month.
Steenkamp, a matric pupil at Thomas More College in Kloof, will join a team of three other South Africans ‒ two from Gauteng and one from the Western Cape ‒ to compete in the IOI which is regarded as one of the most prestigious science competitions for high-school pupils in the world.