International Olympiad - Global Science Competitions

Statistics	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
	4	5	9	11	17	27	28	20	23	19	32	30	31	40	54
Number of Students who Received Training in "Training Camps"	126	410	444	557	654	798	739	651	856	1136	1431	1675	1849	983	1417
Total Number of Gold Medals Earned in the International Olympiyads			2	3	4	3	10	7	3	11	3	4	8	5	12
Total Number of Silver Medals Earned in International Olympiyads		2	8	5	4	7	8	15	14	12	14	9	22	20	22
Total Number of Medals and Certificates of Appreciation Earned in International Olympiads	6	8	23	26	33	47	53	51	49	47	57	56	72	71	92
Total of International Olympiad Participations	2	5	7	8	10	11	12	12	12	12	11	14	18	19	25
Total of Students who Received "Basic Training"					1032	763	990	2774	2370	2599	2132	2373	2539		4848
Total Participants in International Olympiads	12	30	44	49	59	63	70	70	66	75	69	47	51	52	76

International Olympiad - International Biology Olympiad

A contest that targets talented high school students in the field of biology around the world. The competition is held once every year in July for 10 days.

Each year, a country hosts a competition and prepares both theoretical and practical questions, where students are tested in their skills with solving vital problems in various branches of biology, in addition to testing their skills in dealing with vital experiments.

Four students participate from each country to represent them in this competition, provided that they have not joined universities. Therefore, each country is keen to prepare its students through local competitions and training camps.

Top students receive medals (gold - silver - bronze) that support their academic and career future.

Overview

The International Biology Olympiad competition began in the Czech Republic in 1990, and the number of participating countries was only 6 countries: Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union, while the number of countries participating in its latest edition in 2018, which was held in Iran, reached 68 countries.

Several Arab countries participated in the previous editions of the competition: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Qatar, where Egypt won a bronze medal in 2016 in Vietnam, and Syria also won a bronze medal in 2018 in Iran.

The competition will be held in the coming years as follows:

2020 in Japan

2021 in Portugal

2022 in Armenia

2023 in Russia

2024 in Kazakhstan

2025 in the Philippines

Bodies

The Higher Steering Committee: It consists of five members in addition to the IBO President, responsible for running the competitions for 4 years, after which the elections are held again.

General Committee: represented by one of the members of the arbitration committee from each country to participate in the discussion of decisions to vote on them.

Judgement Committee: The jury discusses test questions, answers, and grades before translating them. A delegate member from each country represents them to vote on session decisions.

The host country appoints a committee chairperson by itself to manage debate and vote.

International Olympiad - International Junior Science Olympiad

The International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO) is an annual competition, which is individual in theory, and in the form of a team in the practical side of the natural sciences, for male and female students under the age of sixteen on the date of the competition corresponding to December 31 of each year.

IJSO was established in recognition of the importance of natural sciences in public education for young people and girls in all aspects of their lives. This competition is a purely educational and educational event that promotes interest in science among school students, who are exposed to problem-solving or critical thinking as well, aims to have a positive impact in science and mathematics education, and participates There are approximately 50 countries, each country with a team of 6 participants.

Goals

Challenge gifted students, and motivate and encourage them to continue developing their talents in the natural sciences.

Promote and reward students interested in the natural sciences.

Competition in different branches of science (physics, chemistry, and biology).

Raise the level of science learning to reach encouraging levels in research and development.

Encouraging friendships and relationships among students around the world.

Aspirations

Stimulate students' active interest in the natural sciences.

Enhance the career of students as scientists.

Promote and develop international information exchange in the natural sciences, and enhance scientific cooperation in the future.

Providing an opportunity to compare educational curricula and trends in science education within the participating countries.

Historical Overview

This Olympiad was held for the first time in 2004 AD in Indonesia, and the general framework and laws governing it were established, and it continued with the same approach as other scientific Olympiads. Where it is held every year in one of the participating countries.

Kingdom participations

The Kingdom, praise be to God, achieved the first gold medal in scientific competitions in this Olympiad in 2018, after several participations, during which it achieved several bronze and silver medals.

How to participate in the Saudi team for the International Science Olympiad

Follow-up Mawhoob Competition Announcement on the website of the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity "Mawhiba", and this step is the first step that is followed by several competitions to reach the team that represents the country.

After completing this competition, the student is entitled to participate in the rest of the Olympiads (physics - chemistry - biology).

Chemistry Olympiad - International Chemistry Olympiad

International Chemistry Olympiad

The International Chemistry Olympiad is an international competition in chemistry for high school students. These competitions are held annually in July of every year, and are held in a different country, and last for ten days.

In this International Olympiad, nearly three hundred students, from about seventy different countries, are competing to achieve the best results, to obtain Olympic medals, which paves the way for them with the best options and future opportunities.

The International Chemistry Olympiad competition aims to strengthen the links and cooperation between students, and the exchange of educational and scientific experiences between different countries, so most countries are keen to prepare for this international competition, by organizing National Chemistry Olympiad competitions, through which students qualify to participate in the International Chemistry Olympiad. The host of the Olympiad by organizing and preparing Olympiad questions, which consist of two parts; Part theoretical and part practical.

Each country participates with a maximum of 4 students, provided that the student is no more than 20 years old and has not enrolled at the university level.

A supreme committee oversees the Olympiad, made up of members representing different continents of the world.

Overview

The idea of organizing the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) began in Czechoslovakia in 1968, when it was called the Chemistry Olympiad (ChO) as part of the secondary education system in all countries of the Soviet bloc, and the Soviet Union was a model for all other countries, and the Ministry of Education was based on supporting the competition, At the beginning of the competition, no Western country was invited to participate in this Olympiad.

Later, in the same year and during the first International Olympiad for Chemistry, preliminary regulations for the international competition were formed, including that these competitions will be held at the end of the school year, and the national team from each country (students and supervisors) will participate in the competition, and the competition includes two tests; A theory test and a practical test.

It was decided that the Olympiad would be hosted by different countries annually, and the first International Chemistry Olympiad began in 1968 in Czechoslovakia, with the participation of only 3 countries (Czechoslovakia - Poland - Hungary), and it included 6 students, and the Olympiad was only four days.

In 1975, other countries such as Austria and Belgium joined, bringing the number of participating countries to 12 countries, and the number of 48 students and the Olympiad period increased to ten days.

In 1985, 22 countries participated, including Kuwait, and the number of students reached 84. In 1995, 42 countries participated, and the number of students reached 164 students.

In 2004, 61 countries participated, and the number of competing students reached 233 students.

In 2010, the Olympiad was held in Tokyo, with the participation of 68 countries, and the number of students reached 268, and five countries attended as observers.

Participation of Arab countries

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia participated in the years 2004 and 2005 as an observer, and in the years 2006 and 2007 with students, then returned to participate as an observer in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and participated in the students of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia achieved through these Participants: 7 silver medals, 18 bronze medals, and a certificate of appreciation.

Kuwait participated since 1985, and Egypt participated with students in 2002 for several years, then it stopped participating in 2008.

Syria participated for the first time with students in 2010 and continued to participate, and during these participations until 2018, it achieved about 10 bronze medals and several certificates of appreciation.

The venue and date of the International Chemistry Olympiad for the coming years

The fifty-second International Chemistry Olympiad in Turkey, July 2020.

The 53rd International Chemistry Olympiad in Japan, July 2021.

The 54thInternational Chemistry Olympiad in China, July 2022.

The 55th International Chemistry Olympiad, Switzerland, July 2023 AD.

The 56th International Chemistry Olympiad, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, July 2024.

Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad MChO

It is the most difficult chemistry competition in the world in terms of the high level of questions, the method of the contest, and the basic language of the competition is Russian, and the questions are translated into English and then Arabic, and it has been held for more than 53 years, in which the most powerful countries in the world participate in chemistry.

It was named after the great Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, who provided the first version of the periodic table of elements.

It is held at the end of April and the beginning of May every year and is attended by the best 8 students in the team.

Mathematics Olympiad

International Mathematics Olympiad - IMO

The International Mathematics Olympiad is known internationally by the symbol (IMO), and it is an international competition held annually in pre-candidate countries during July of each year. The competition includes a high level of difficulty test consisting of six questions spread over two days, for which (42 marks) are allocated ), Each day only three questions are given over four and a half hours, and pre-university students (i.e. under the age of twenty years) participate in them, and each country participates with a team consisting of 6 students as a maximum. The first Olympiad was held in 1959 in Romania, with the participation of only 7 countries, where a Romanian professor organized a mathematics competition for students of the final year of secondary education, in which seven countries from the socialist camp participated, namely: Czechoslovakia, East Germany, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Poland, and in 1961, Yugoslavia joined it to become the number of eight countries that continued to participate annually in this Olympiad and embrace it alternately until 1963, and in 1964 Mongolia joined it, and Vietnam followed suit in 1974 Then Turkey, and so the countries continued to participate in succession until the number of participating countries reached nearly 106, South Africa in 2015.

Algeria's participation was the first Arab participation in 1977, followed by Tunisia in 1981, then Kuwait in 1982, Morocco in 1983, and Bahrain in 1990, and the first participation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Japanese Olympiad in 2003 was with two scientific observers, without the participation of students, as it states. This is the Olympic list, and in the 2004 Greek Olympiad, four students participated, and the UAE participated for the first time in the Vietnam Olympiad in 2007 as an observer, and in the 2008 Spanish Olympiad with students, and the Kingdom participated in 2003.

The following are the results of the Kingdom's participation in this competition:

General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Center	degrees	Medals
General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Center	degrees	HM	B	S	G
2003	Participate as observers without students
2004	Greece	6	85	85	4	0	0	0	0
2005	Mexico	5	91	85	3	0	0	0	0
2006	Slovenia	4	90	88	3	0	0	0	0
2007	Vietnam	4	93	91	5	0	0	0	0
2008	Spain	6	97	94	8	0	0	0	0
2009	The file was assigned to Mawhiba and the participants took place as an observer without students
2010	Kazakhstan	6	97	67	55	2	2	0	0
2011	Netherlands	6	101	70	53	0	2	0	0
2012	Argentina	6	79	29	105	0	3	2	0
2013	Colombia	6	100	42	84	0	4	0	0
2014	South Africa	6	100	43	103	2	4	0	0
2015	Thailand	6	104	41	81	2	3	1	0
2016	Hong Kong	6	109	41	104	2	4	0	0
2017	Brazil	6	111	39	100	1	2	2	0
2018	Romania	6	107	60	69	1	1	1	0
2019	United Kingdom	6	112	33	124	0	4	1	0
2020	Remotely	6				4	2	0	0

Balkan Olympiad

It is an annual mathematics competition, usually held at the beginning of May every year, organized by the countries of the Balkans and Cyprus, and it is allowed to invite some countries from outside this region to participate, and it was launched in 1984 when the first session was organized by Greece.

Similar to the systems in force in the International Mathematics Olympiad, whereby each team participates with a number not exceeding six students, provided that none of them has received any university education and has not exceeded the age of one of them twenty years old.

The Mathematics Contest for the Balkan Countries is one of the oldest competitions in the world, as its importance is gained from the strength of the participating countries and its pioneering role in establishing the International Mathematics Olympiad in the year 1957, and the Kingdom participates annually in this competition starting from the year 2010, and was unable to participate in the year 2013 to contradict its date With the final preparations for the International Olympiad.

The results during previous years were as follows:

General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Medals
General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	B	S	G
2010	Moldova	6	21	2	-	-
2011	Romania	6	21	2	1	-
2012	Turkey	6	21	4	1	-
2014	Bulgaria	6	20	2	-	-
2015	Greece	6	21	4	-	-
2016	Albania	6	19	3	-	2
2017	Macedonia	6	20	2	1	-
2018	Serbia	6	17	6	-	-
2019	Moldova	6	18	3	1	-

Junior Balkan Olympiad

It is a competition organized by the Balkan countries and Cyprus and male and female students who do not exceed 15.5 years of age at the start of the competition participate in it. The country of the former Yugoslavia hosted its first session in 1997, and the competition hosts several countries to participate in this competition, and each team participates with a number not exceeding six students The competition takes place in one day, where students test several four questions in the four internationally recognized branches (algebra - geometry - number theory - combinations), and the score for each question is calculated from 10 marks, so that the total score for each student is 40, and each team has 240 points. The competition is held in the last third of June every year.

This is the result of the Kingdom's participation in this competition:

General	Hosting Country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Medals
General	Hosting Country	Team members	The number of participating countries	B	S	G
2013	Turkey	6	19	-	-	1
2014	Macedonia	6	17	4	2	-
2015	Serbia	6	20	4	1	1
2016	Romania	6	22	5	1	-
2017	Bulgaria	6	20	3	3	-
2018	Greece	6	17	2	3	-
2019	Cyprus	6	17	1	2	2
2020	Remotely	6		1	4	1

Arabian Gulf Mathematics Olympiad

A periodic competition in mathematics for students of member states of the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, organized and supervised by the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, hosted by one of the member states, and its importance is to create an appropriate environment to raise scientific competition among students of member states, in various fields of competition, and to contribute to Enriching school curricula and developing education, and its first edition was launched in 2012.

and the results of the Kingdom were as follows:

General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Medals
General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	B	S	G
2012	Untied Arabs Emarits UAE	6	6	-	5	1
2013	Qatar	6	6	-	4	2
2014	Oman	6	7	-	2	4
2015	Kuwait	6	6	-	4	2
2016	Saudi Arabia	6	6	-	2	4
2017	Saudi Arabia	6	20	-	3	3
2018	Not been held this year
2019	Oman	6		-	2	4

Asia-Pacific Mathematics Olympiad

It is an international competition in mathematics that aims to discover and encourage mathematically gifted school students in all countries of Asia and the Pacific, to promote friendly international relations and cooperation between students and teachers, as well as to create an opportunity to exchange information on curricula and practice across the Pacific region. It takes place on the second Tuesday of March every year.

The first version was launched in the year 1989, and the Kingdom participated in it starting from the year 2011.

The results were as follows:

General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Medals
General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	HM	B	S	G
2011	The contest is held remotely	10	35	1	1	1	-
2012		10	37	3	-	-	1
2013		10	34	6	3	1	-
2014		10	36	2	1	-	-
2015		10	36	1	4	-	-
2016		10	36	1	1	-	1
2017		10	39	4	3	-	1
2018		10	39	7	3	-	-
2019		10	41	3	4	3	-
2020		10	38	3	4	3	-

European Girls' Olympiad for Mathematics

In the fall of the year 2009, Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom proposed that a math competition be organized in the style of the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) at the European level, with the participation of the countries of the continent with only teams of its members who are students of general education, to support the study of mathematics for girls in European countries, and they launched It has the name European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad, and the idea has received great support from the countries of the continent and some countries from outside it that participate, and the University of Cambridge hosted its first version in April of 2012.

This is the result of the Kingdom's participation in this competition:

General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	Medals
General	Hosting country	Team members	The number of participating countries	HM	B	S	G
2012	England	3	19	-	1	-	-
2014	Turkey	4	29	-	-	-	-
2015	Belarus	4	30	2	1	-	-
2016	Romania	4	39	-	2	-	1
2017	Switzerland	4	44	1	1	1	1
2018	Italy	4	52	-	1	2	-
2019	Ukraine	4	53	1	1	1	-
2020	Remotely	4	53	1	1	1	-

Informatics Olympiad

International Informatics Olympiad -IOI

is an annual programming competition for high school students. It is the second-largest Olympiad, after the International Sports Olympiad, in terms of the number of participating countries. was the first edition in 1989 in Bravitz, Bulgaria.

The competition consists of two days of computer programming and problem-solving of an algorithmic nature. For dealing with problems involving large amounts of data, the difficult part of this competition is not the programming, but the mathematics that makes up the work. Each country is represented by 4 students who compete on an individual basis.

It takes place during July every year and is attended by the best 4 students in the team.

Olympiad in Informatics in the Baltic -BOI

The Baltic Olympiad in Informatics is a programming competition for high school students across the Baltic Sea. More than 60 high school students from 10 countries compete against each other as each country sends the top 6 students to solve challenging problems of an algorithmic nature.

BOI was established in 1995, with only 3 participating countries. Since then, it has grown to include 10 countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden.

It takes place during May every year and is attended by the best 4 students in the team.

Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO)

Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad is an Olympiad that is like the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), but this competition is specifically for the delegates within the Asia Pacific region. The first competition was organized by the Australian IOI Team in 2007.

This year’s competition is held online, where students compete at the competition sites within their country or region.

Physics Olympiad

International Physics Olympiad

Where these scholars adopted the idea of establishing a Physics Olympiad among high school students and their level of technical education, similar to the International Olympiad in Mathematics that was held for the first time in 1959 AD, and after intensive consultations between the three scientists, the situation settled to the establishment of the first Olympiad in Warsaw headed by Professor Chissov Sislowski It was also agreed to hold the Olympiad once a year in a periodic manner, such as the International Olympiad in Mathematics, and here it is worth noting the fundamental difference between the Physics Olympiad and the Mathematics Olympiad, which is the existence of practical problems in the first; This makes the process of preparing and organizing it more complicated and more expensive than the Mathematics Olympiad.

Team formation in the 1st Olympic Games

The participating team consists of a maximum of five students, two supervisors, and observers are allowed in the same delegation. The list of competition questions has been approved, which is three to four theoretical questions for the first day and one practical question for the second day. The languages approved in the tournament are English and Russian only (meaning that the exam questions come in both English and Russian languages only. All teams are entitled to answer in their mother tongue. Set aside a rest day between the first and second test days. Forming an experienced secretarial committee to undertake the task of organizing and meeting the demands of all competing teams.

Participation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the International Physics Olympiad

Through the participation of the Saudi team for the year 2011 in the forty-second International Physics Olympiad, which was held in Thailand from 10-18 July 2010, student Yusef Al-Owaid achieved a certificate of appreciation, and the first achievement for an Arab country in the competition was to obtain a certificate of appreciation, and the total scores of the Kingdom's team became 25% instead of 2% in the last post.

As for the forty-third International Physics Olympiad in 2012, which was held in Estonia from 15-24 July 2012, the Saudi team made a new history in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab world, by obtaining the student Abdullah Al-Salloum the first bronze medal The level of the Arab world, as well as three members of the team achieved certificates of appreciation, and they are Hammoud Al-Harbi, Ali Al-Helimi, and Muhammad Al-Hajji. The fact that four of the five team members receive a medal or certificate of appreciation is a tangible progress in the team’s performance and evidence that planning and training are the basis of excellence, and the team hopes to obtain silver and gold medals in the coming years.

The Kingdom participated in the forty-fourth International Physics Olympiad 2013 AD, which was held in Copenhagen-Denmark from 7 to 15 July 2013, and the two students Muhammad Al-Hajji and Ali Al-Helimi won two bronze medals, in addition to two certificates of appreciation for students Ibrahim Al-Nami and Abdul-Mohsen Al-Oweid.

The Kingdom participated in the forty-fifth International Physics Olympiad 2014, which was held in Astana - Kazakhstan from 13 to 21 July 2014 AD, and the team won two bronze medals, achieved by the two students, Abdul Mohsen Al-Oweid and Faisal Al-Khayal, and a certificate of appreciation achieved by the student Ibrahim Al-Juhani.

The Kingdom also participated in the forty-sixth International Physics Olympiad 2015, which was held in Mumbai - India from 4 to 13 July 2015 AD, and four of the participating students received certificates of appreciation, and they are Muhammad Al-Wathenani, Faisal Al-Saif, Abdul-Malik Al-Ghunaim, and Faour Al-Faour.

The Kingdom also participated in the forty-seventh International Physics Olympiad 2016, which was held in Zurich - Switzerland from 11 to 17 July 2016 AD, where the student Faisal Al-Saif won a silver medal, and the student Yazan Al-Majnouni and Ghada Al-Shaalan won two bronze medals, as well as the student Ghassan Al-Jawi. And the student Faisal Al-Hajri on two certificates of appreciation.

The Kingdom continued to participate in the 48th International Physics Olympiad 2017, which was held in the city of Yogyakarta - Indonesia from 16 to 24 July 2017. As an extension of his previous achievements, student Faisal Al-Salloum won a silver medal, as well as student Ghada Al-Shaalan won a silver medal, and student Yazan Al-Majnouni won a bronze medal, and Al-Walid Al-Dargham received a certificate of appreciation.

In 2018, the Kingdom's participation in the forty-ninth International Physics Olympiad, which was held in Lisbon - Portugal from July 21 to 29, 2019 AD, continued to achieve good results, as the student Faisal Al-Salloum won a silver medal, as well as the student Yazan Al-Majnouni and the new student Al-Dargham won two bronze medals, and the student Moaz Al-Fayoumi received a certificate of appreciation.

Asian Physics Olympiad APhO

The Asian Physics Olympiad is the main competition in physics for Asian countries and is similar to that after the International Physics Olympiad (International Physics Olympiad), and requires a similar level of intellectual ability from the participants.

And there is a difference between the Asian and International Physics Olympiad and Olympiad is that each country can be represented by a maximum of 8 students while the International Olympiad maximum is 5 students so that the age of the twenty contestants on June 30 in the same year of the competition does not exceed.

Its first edition was launched in the year 1999 AD in Indonesia with the participation of 12 countries, and it is held at the beginning of May every year

Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad (NBPhO)

A regional competition That was established in 1992, in cooperation between Estonia and Finland. Therefore, it was called Estonian Finnish Physics Olympiad. The competition is considered as the last stage of training in the two countries. Thus, nominees from the competition participate in the International Physics Olympiad to represent their countries.

In 2014, Latvia applied to join the competition, followed by Sweden in 2016; therefore, the competition was renamed.

Each country that has participated in the establishment of the competition is permitted to have 20 contestants, while other countries are permitted to participate as guests with a specified number of contestants.

European Physics Olympiad (EuPhO)

A competition for high school students. It includes short problems, that require students to provide creative solutions.

The competition is open to European countries and other countries. The participating countries are entitled to send 5 students and one leader. The competition follows the policies and topics of the International Olympiad.

The competition is divided into two parts:

The first part is theoretical which, contains three problems with complicated ideas, for students to provide creative solutions. They are given five hours to solve them.
The second part is practical. It consists of one or two problems, and the students are also given five hours to solve them. This competition differs from the International Olympiad; as the students discuss their solutions with the scientific committee rather than the team leaders.

IPHO	ICHO	IMO
IJSO	IBO	IOI
Asian Physics Olympiad	IMChO	APMO
GPHO	European's Girls Mathematical Olympiad	Balkan Mathematical Olympiad

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