The press center of the ministry of education and science announced that Bulgaria will be the host of the XXI International informatics Olympiad.

Especially for the occasion, the vice-minister of education and science Kircho Atanasov met the president of the International informatics Olympiad Arturo Sepeda and the chief execuitve of the Olympiad Richard Foster today.

The competition will take place in Plovdiv between August 8th and 15th.

Bulgaria is the founder of the International informatics Olympiad. The Ministry of education will be the main organizer of the event. A hundred students from all over the world will participate in the competition.

For the last twenty years, Bulgarian students have traditionally ranked among the top in the Olympiad.