The European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) is a programming competition for young women. ETH students developed the concept to promote women in computer science. (Photograph: EGOI)
The European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) is a programming competition for young women. ETH students developed the concept to promote women in computer science. (Photograph: EGOI) - Next week, the first European Girls' Olympiad in Informatics will take place in Zurich. The competition, which will have around 160 participants from 43 countries, is being organised by ETH students, who also came up with the original idea and are the driving force behind the event. Stefanie Zbinden loves solving puzzles. Not just any puzzles though; preferably tricky tasks like those you'd find in computer science and mathematics. "It's an incredible feeling when you spend a long time working on a problem and find an elegant solution at the end," she says.
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