The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), in collaboration with the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), is organizing the 12th edition of the Egyptian Olympiad in Informatics (EOI), on September 15-19, in AASTMT campus in Alexandria.
 
EOI is attended by 100 school students from different governorates, who were selected after passing several qualifying and training stages.
 
Around 1,500 applications were received, only the top 300 were selected for a training grant from MCIT. Selected students received a three-week training in ten governorates, supervised by MCIT team.
 
After the training, the students went through two online exams, and the top 100 were selected to participate in EOI.
 
EOI is being organized since 2003. It is the official qualifier for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2020 in Singapore.