Young participants from Armenia successfully performed at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence, which took place on August 2–8 in Astana. The country was represented by two teams of four students each – the maximum allowed composition.
In the team standings, the quartet from Vanadzor's special school with in-depth study of mathematics and natural sciences took 5th place among representatives from 120 countries. The Armenian team was only surpassed by participants from New Zealand, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, and Spain. In the individual competition, Aram Amirkhanyan and Razmik Yepremyan from the Artashes Shahinyan Special Physics and Mathematics School received bronze medals.
Three other schoolchildren – Artem Hovhannisyan and Gurgen Bayburdyan from Gyumri's "Photon" Lyceum, as well as David Ghazaryan from Vagharshapat's Senior School No. 5 – received honorable mentions.
The Olympiad included a home stage with three tasks, team challenges with simulation and the Galbot robot, and an individual round of six artificial intelligence tasks.
The national team's composition was determined based on the results of a national selection process involving about 170 schoolchildren. Six of the eight Armenian representatives underwent a three-year training program called "Artificial Intelligence Generation," implemented by the relevant ministry and the Science and Technology Foundation of Armenia. This is the second consecutive year of Armenia's participation in the IOAI. Last year in Beijing, Aram Amirkhanyan already won a bronze in the individual standings.
