The 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics starts today in Tashkent.
🏆 The IOI is the ultimate coding competition for high-school students. Years ago, many members of the Telegram team won medals there.
🤝 To support the best young programmers in the world, Telegram will award the 235 winners exclusive digital collectibles — Algorithm Cups — worth at least $117,000 in total.
🕌 It’s fitting that IOI is hosted in Uzbekistan — the homeland of Al-Khwarizmi, the father of algebra whose name became the word “algorithm."
Let the best algorithm win! 💪