Baltic Olympiad 2025

From the 24-th to the 29-th of April 2025, the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics (BOI 2025) was held in Toruń, Poland. The competition brought together 78 participants from 12 countries.

The Baltic Olympiad in Informatics (BOI) is an annual informatics competition for countries bordering the Baltic Sea: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. This year, two guest countries—Ukraine and Israel—also took part. Unlike other international olympiads in informatics, each participating country in the BOI is represented by six high school students.

Team Ukraine won two gold medals, three silver medals, and one bronze medal. We placed the third in the team ranking. The members of Team Ukraine were:

• 🥇 Illia Shevchenko, a 10th-grade student at the Kharkiv Lyceum "Kharkiv School of Boiko" (coaches: Valentyn Melnyk, Oleksandr Mitsa, Mykola Arzubov);
• 🥇 Valerii Kovnatskyi, an 11th-grade student at the Kharkiv Lyceum "Kharkiv School of Boiko" (coaches: Valentyn Melnyk, Oleksandr Mitsa);
• 🥈 Kyrylo Redenskyi, an 11th-grade student at Kyiv Specialized School No. 200 named after Vasyl Stus (coach: Valentyn Melnyk);
• 🥈 Nazar Vyshniak, an 11th-grade student at Kremenchuk Scientific Lyceum "Polit" (coach: Valentyn Melnyk);
• 🥈 Stepan Simak, an 11th-grade student at Kyiv Educational Center "Optima" (coach: Andrii Popyk);
• 🥉 Dmytro Yuzkevych, an 11th-grade student at the Scientific Lyceum at Zhytomyr State University (coach: Serhii Zhukovskyi).

The team leaders were Vladyslav Nechyporuk and Maryna Nadtochii. The trip was organized by the Ukrainian Federation of Olympiad Programming and sponsored by Citadel.