About

The Baltic Olympiad in Informatics is a programming contest for secondary school students around the Baltic sea. Over 60 secondary school students from 10 countries compete against each other, solving difficult problems of an algorithmic nature. Each country sends their top 6 contestants from previous national olympiads.

The BOI was founded in 1995, with three participating countries. Since then, it has grown to include 10 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden. In addition, teams from other countries are sometimes invited as guests.

BOI shares its competition format with the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), which is the annual world programming championship for secondary school students. On each of two contest days, the contestants participate in a 5-hour exam. They are given a number of difficult algorithmic problems and are required to solve these by writing programs. Their programs are then evaluated and scored based on both efficiency and correctness. Several BOI countries take BOI results into account when selecting their teams for IOI.

In 2023, the BOI will be held in Denmark. It is the second time Denmark is hosting the competition.

People

Host Committee

• Chair: Knud Fjeldsted
• Anders Roy
• Christian Bertram (Website, Merchandise)
• Emil T. Gæde
• Inge Li Gørtz
• Ivor van der Hoog
• Simon Tarnow

Scientific Committee

• Chair: Thore Husfeldt
• Daniel Rutschmann
• David Rasmussen Lolck
• Elias Rasmussen Lolck
• Thor Eriksen

Technical Committee

• Chair: Markus Krabbe Larsen
• William Bille Meyling

Other

• Lin Bigom-Eriksen
• Markus Mathiasen

Past BOIs

Some of the websites linked below are no longer online. Luckily, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine will partially revive much of what is gone.