Hey all!
We hope you're doing well. Like last year, we're again looking to give back a little to the competitive programming community, in the form of mentorship. This mentorship is completely free. We're hoping to help aspiring competitive programmers do well at the ZCO, INOI and IOITC, and hopefully even represent India at the IOI!
We're setting up another Discord server, to mentor people trying out for the ZCO, INOI and IOITC. Last year, we had 16 people from our server qualify for IOITC. This time, there's a larger limit on the total number of people we can take, as we have many more mentors. However, we're trying to focus more on olympiad preparation this year. You're still welcome to apply if you think you'd benefit from Olympiad training but are ineligible for INOI.
We're also in the process of developing a resource similar to the USACO Guide, in order to help us organise our teaching better. Do note that we teach all the topics within the INOI syllabus, and also teach topics which can appear at IOITC and IOI.
Like last year, if you join the program, we'll help you by:
- Compiling useful practice problem sets to introduce you to a variety of different techniques
- Selecting problems to practice with
- Providing hints to solve problems in practice
- Discussing problems after a contest
- Recommending similar problems (if you’d like to reinforce a trick/observation)
- Providing debugging assistance
- Finding tutorials for classical techniques
- Hosting sessions to teach/discuss classical techniques (we now have a list of topics we'd like to cover in order, but we're usually also happy to teach other things as necessary)
- Hosting sessions to teach/discuss specific problems
If you think you'd benefit from mentorship, feel free to apply at our form here. We'll get back to you within a couple of weeks with a server invite link. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me with a message, or leave a comment here. The form will close on the 9th of July, 2021 at 12pm IST.
If you'd like to become a mentor (preferably with ZCO/INOI/IOITC experience), please also reach out to me(or socho) — we'd be glad to have you on board!
Thank you!
The current set of mentors is:
Me
socho
shiven
sahil_k
b23v
astoria
Aggu_01000101
ScarletS
kimbj0709
smjleo
Note: I would like to apologize for the name. It wasn't my choice. Ofcourse, DSU >> UFDS
I'm looking forward to helping out at the DSU Mentoring 2022!
Count me in too (as a mentor).
We want EverybodyOrzInSomeWay as a tutor, not you.
(It's his Alt guys come on!)
don't generalize your personal opinion
They're both the same :(
It's his Alt
Just because someone copied a template of some other person doesn't mean that it's his alt account.
By your logic then Geothermal and Benq should be the same person because both of them have exactly the same template.
bruh take a look for yourself
Is there a selection through the forms? As I am pretty new. I registered 3 weeks ago with zero knowledge of competitive programming and going to give my first contest today. So Do you chose to train only those who have a good rating and high experience or anyone like me as well?
You are very welcome to apply and most probably will be selected :). There is no condition for good rating and high experience
As someone who was in the server last year, I can say that there is no lower bound for you to be selected in terms of your rating or experience. All that matters is that you are willing to put in work towards your CP goals.
I should have started CP in school but sadly I'm in college now :(. Can I still fill the form?
You are not eligible for ioi!
It's clearly mentioned in the blog it's for ioi aspirants.
You're still welcome to apply if you think you'd benefit from Olympiad training but are ineligible for INOI.I was asking after reading this line in the blog.Yep, just select the 'Not in school' option on the form.
We have a website now!
I have a couple of questions:
Have you sent back the mails :( cause i haven't received...
We'll send out mails to selected participants in 2 days.
If I did not receive a mail till now, does it mean I have been rejected? I had applied on the first day, I really hoped to get selected :) Never mind! All the best for your project!
why didn't I notice this blog previously....missed another opportunity, like INOI may be way out of my league but could have learnt something! :(
You can still apply
Hey, the google form says the deadline has passed, could you please check on it.
It will reopen soon