Olympiad Vault track
Informatics
Organised by: British Informatics Olympiad (BIO) and UK Bebras (Raspberry Pi Foundation) — www.olympiad.org.uk
This track is authored by Armen Mnatsakanyan himself — see his credentials on the Why GeraLearn page.
Competitions covered
Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge (the gateway); BIO Round 1; BIO Final; the IOI pathway.
Who can enter
Bebras categories span school ages (we target 11 to 18); BIO is for students under 19 in full-time pre-university education in mainland Britain.
Usual timing
Bebras usually runs in November; BIO Round 1 is usually sat in December to January; the BIO Final is held around Easter in Cambridge.
Levels in this track
Three levels, one route map
Foundation
Computational thinking the Bebras way: logic, patterns, algorithms in everyday clothes. No coding needed at this level.
BIO Core
Programming for Round 1 in Python or a school language: loops, arrays, strings, recursion, simulation, and writing code that is correct on hidden test data, using our in-browser judge style tasks.
Advanced
Final and IOI style: data structures, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, complexity, and multi-hour problem sets with partial scoring per subtask.