Hungarian team wins two silver medals at Central European Olympiad in Informatics for Students!

Around fifty students from the Central European region and the host countries competed in the IT competition in Magdeburg, Germany, and two of the four-member Hungarian delegation came home with silver medals. In a few days’ time, the Hungarian secondary school students competing at the CEOI will also be taking part in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), a world competition held in Szeged this year.

This year, Germany hosted the Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI), which has been held every year since 1994, from 13 to 19 August in Magdeburg, a town between Berlin and Hannover, Germany.

The students competing at CEOI test their skills in solving problems using advanced algorithmic thinking over two days of competition. In 2023, students from Hungary, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and three guest countries, Israel, Switzerland and Ukraine participated the Student Olympiad, and the host country also entered the competition with a second team from Saxony-Anhalt.

The silver medal in CEOI 2023 was awarded to István Ádám Molnár from Földes Ferenc High School in Miskolc and Bernát Tarján from Veres Péter High School in Békásmegyeri. Pál Czanik, from the Fazekas Mihály Elementary School and Gymnasium in Budapest and Máté Fülöp, from the Péter Veres Gimnázium in Békásmegyeri, finished in the midfield of the international competition.

The team leader of the Hungarian delegation was Dr. Ágnes Erdősné Németh, Vice President of the Neumann Society for Talent Management, and her deputy was Imre Bende, lecturer at ELTE IK. The students prepared for the competition in the Neumann Society’s Talent Management Programme, in close cooperation with the ELTE Faculty of Informatics, with the support of the National Talent Programme.

“The CEOI is usually a preparatory competition for the International Olympiad in Informatics, traditionally for young people who will still be competing next year. The results are encouraging for the IOI, which starts on the 28th, where the same students will participate as members of the Hungarian eight-person student delegation,” commented Dr. Ágnes Erdősné Németh, Vice President for Talent Management of the Neumann Society.

They proved their worth last year and will compete again this year

The names of all four student Olympians may be familiar from previous IT talent competitions: István Ádám Molnár, who reached the highest score at this year’s CEOI from the Hungarian team, won a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Indonesia last year, while Pál Czanik won bronze.

The crowning event of the student Olympiad season will be the IOI again this year, from 28 August to 4 September – in Szeged, Hungary. All four of the student Olympians who have already proven themselves at the CEOI will be taking part in the world competition, as well as Lőrinc Máté, Tamás Márton Németh, Marcell Németh and Bendegúz Vámosi.