Three Bronze Medals for Australia at 2001 IOI

Australian students scored three bronze medals at the recent International Olympiad in Informatics, held from 14 to 21 July in Tampere, Finland.

The International Olympiad in Informatics is the premier competition among the world's students in computer science. It has an accent on using computer program to solve unseen problems and attracted teams of four from 74 countries. This was only Australia's third entry in this event. Each student attempts 6 problems, each worth 100 points, over two days.

In the picture, from left, are Troy Cruickshank, Cameron Patrick, Adam Kerz and David Burburan after the medal-awarding ceremony.

Three students, David Burburan, from Sydney, Adam Kerz, from Lismore and Cameron Patrick from Perth each won a Bronze Medal, placing them among the upper half of individual results. A fourth student, Troy Cruickshank, of Adelaide, narrowly missed this achievement.

Detailed Australian scores were:

	NAME	YR	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	TOT
	David Burburan James Ruse Ag High School NSW	12	30	24	-	100	-	100	254
	Troy Cruickshank The Heights School SA	12	25	37	5	45	25	-	137
	Adam Kerz Lismore High School NSW	11	30	-	-	78	75	33	216
	Cameron Patrick Carine Senior High School WA	11	25	7	20	34	85	-	171

(cut-off for bronze believed to be 143)

One of the perfect scorers in the International Mathematics Olympiad , Reid Barton of the USA, participated also in the Informatics Olympiad, obtaining the top score with 580 points out of the possible 600. He was 55 points ahead of the second placegetter. This was his third Gold Medal in this event.

Team Leader was Ben Burton, of the University of Melbourne. Deputy Leader was Dr David Clark, of the University of Canberra.

The Mathematics and Informatics Olympiads are administered in Australia by the Australian Mathematics Trust and receive support from the Federal Government throught the Department of Education, Employment and Youth Affairs and the Department of Industry, Science and Resources.