1. Introduction to HKOI 13 January 2007

2. Benefits of Joining HKOI  Improve your problem solving skills  Prizes (you already have some)  Chances to represent Hong Kong in international  competitions Free trips  Make new friends  Prepare for other competitions e.g. ACM ICPC

3. External Competitions  International Olympiad in Informatics  IOI 2007 at Zagreb( 札格拉布 ), Croatia In 15-22 August, 2007  Four representatives from Hong Kong  IOI 2007 will be Linux-only  http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/ioi/

4. External Competitions  National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) 2007  Five representatives from Hong Kong  At least one of which will be a girl  For students aged 18 or below on 30 June 2007  http://www.noi.cn/

5. External Competitions  SEARCC/AIC  Not guaranteed  For students not older than 17 years old  Compete in teams of three

6. IOI/NOI Team Formation Test  9 June 2007  Normally 4 tasks in 4 hours  The top 7 contestants and the top female contestant

7. Preparing for the TFT  Attending the HKOI training  HKOI Homepage http://www.hkoi.org/http://www.hkoi.org/ Training Materials  HKOI Newsgroup news://news.hkoi.org/hkoinews://news.hkoi.org/hkoi Asking questions

8. Training Sessions  Almost every Saturday except holidays  AM session: 10:00am - 1:00pm  PM session: 2:00pm - 5:00pm  Room 123, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building, CUHK

9. Preparing for the TFT  Additional References Introduction to Algorithms  The MIT Press; 2 edition (September 1, 2001) by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford SteinThomas H. CormenCharles E. LeisersonRonald L. RivestClifford Stein OIBH http://oibh.kuye.cn/ (for Beginners only)

10. Preparing for the TFT  Online Judges HKOI Online Judge: https://judge.hkoi.org/ UVA OJ: http://acm.uva.es/p/ USACO: http://train.usaco.org/