Informatics Olympiad held at five divisional hqs

The Bangladesh Informatics Olympiad (BIO) 2008 was held in five divisional headquarters of the country recently, says a press release.
With the theme 'Challenge your talents for the best algorithm and programs', the competition involves a head-on fight of school and college children with sharp mathematical and analytical minds.
The three-hour exam contained questions, which ranged anything and everything between brainteasers, analytical questions and writing pseudocodes (algorithms).
The contests took place at Notre Dame College in Dhaka, Premier University in Chittagong, Metropolitan University in Sylhet, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology and Rajshahi University.
Organised by the Bangladesh Informatics Olympiad Committee (BIOC) and Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), the event was sponsored by Nescafe 3-in-1. The Daily Star was the media partner of the event.
The winners of these contests will battle in the national event scheduled to be held at Notre Dame College on April 11.
The key goal of this event is to select the participants from Bangladesh for the International Olympiad in Informatics, which is scheduled to be held in Alexandria, Egypt in August this year.
The IOI was first held in Bulgaria in 1989 and has since been regarded as one of the foremost platforms to find young and talented students form all across the world.