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title: "NOI 2026 (and 2025)"
type: "Achievement"
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# National Olympiad in Informatics 2026 (and 2025) { .heading }
NOI (Singapore) is an annual, and well, prestigious, programming and algorithmic problem-solving contest for secondary school to junior colleges and polytechnic students in Singapore.
I was first exposed to competitive programming last year when I was in Secondary 3 by my Secondary 4 scholar senior. I told myself, “Sure, why not? Sounds quite interesting.”, and it was!
My senior also invited me to participate in NOI 2025, which I did. I didn’t get into the finals, which was very okay to me back then.
I’m still continuously learning algorithmic problem-solving/competitive programming. This year, I decided to participate again and got into the finals! I even got the bronze medal, which was a nice surprise!
Though, to be completely candid, I still won't consider myself to be an expert in competitive programming. Competing alongside much more knowledgable friends in competitive programming was frankly quite humbling, but still very fun. While I managed to secure a bronze medal, I'd say the exposure I've gotten on advanced algorithmic concepts was the most valuable.
From the beginning, I've always enjoyed building coding projects especially when it's able to help others. Ultimately, I wish to be able to apply what I've learnt from NOI, that is algorithmic problem solving, and how to break down problems systematically, to my [projects](/projects/) and beyond in the future.
[<i class="fa-solid fa-download"></i> Download my certificate](https://files.altafcreator.com/school/certs/noi2026.pdf)
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