Cypriot student wins silver at IT Olympiad

Cypriot student Angelos Pelekanos has won a silver medal at the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics held in Tehran, Iran, from July 28 to August 4, the Cyprus Computer Society announced on Friday.

The Cyprus Computer Society has been organising events for the past 29 years with increasing success over the years and is regularly involved in sending students to international events.

The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is an annual international informatics competition for high school students from various invited countries, accompanied by social and cultural programmes.

Its objectives are to discover, encourage, bring together, challenge, and give recognition to young people who are exceptionally talented in the field of informatics and to foster friendly international relationships among computer scientists and informatics educators.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.