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DCU School of Computing along with Fidelity Investments host the All Ireland Schools Programming Competition (AISPC)

The All-Ireland Schools Programming competition was held in the School of Computing, DCU on Saturday, 12th May. This is the premier second-level computer programming competition which pitches the best young programmers from around the country in order to select the Irish team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI2012).

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The competition consisted of two rounds with the first round done at home or at school, and the final round held in the School of Computing, DCU. The problems are graded with the first round entry being relatively easy, to more difficult programming challenges on competition day. Students completed these challenges over a four hour period with the first four students to finish all problem qualifying for the prizes.

Congratulations to the 4 winners:

1st Maciej Goszczycki (14, Colaiste Chroah Abhann, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow)
2nd Abdullah Mohammad (16, Carrigaline Community School, Co. Cork)
3rd Conor Flynn (16, St.Joseph's College, Nun's Island, Galway)
4th Richard Tynan (16, Cistercian College, Roscrea)

Well done to Maciej Goszczycki who won the AISPC Winner's cup and gold medal this year with each of the winners receiving a AISPC medal and Kobo eBook kindly sponsored by Fidelity Investments. Congratulations to all the students who entered this year's competition, these are not easy programming problems, with special mention to our junior CodoDojo contestants, Harvey Conniffe (10) and Shane Buckley (11) who competed admirably against the big boys. Future IOI team members for sure!

Four students from this year's AISPC competition will travel to Italy in September on an all expenses paid trip where they will compete against the top second-level computer programming students from around the world.. and have a bit of fun!