[IT168 News] Acer announced that it has become the official information equipment sponsor of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), one of the world's five major science competitions.

【IT168 News】Acer announced that it has become the official information equipment sponsor of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), one of the world's five major science competitions. For five consecutive years starting in 2017, Acer will provide laptops, servers, tablets, network equipment, and all on-site maintenance and related services required for IOI competitions held in different countries every year.

Acer Global President and CEO Chen Junsheng said that today’s student leaders are future innovators. Acer hopes to actively support and continuously provide a stage through education and technology to assist young talents, inspire enthusiasm and creativity, and work in a better world. Grow in a learning environment and prepare for the future.

The 26th International Information Olympia competition was hosted in Taiwan last year. Acer provided a total of more than 800 devices, including laptops, tablets, AIO all-in-ones, monitors, servers and storage devices. Among them, what is most appreciated by the players and coaching team is the tablet computer provided by Acer to the team leader as a communication tool. It not only assists the IOI competition to achieve real-time communication of information, but also makes the competition enter a paperless environment, which deeply impresses and praises the participating teams from various countries. There are plus.

In addition, Acer cooperated with the organizer to set up an All-in-One machine in the public area of ​​the contestant village, allowing contestants to use the equipment for free and experience Acer BYOC cloud services, allowing contestants away from home not only to Learn about current events through the Internet, and share instant messages with relatives or friends far away. The

IOI competition is a youth information science competition supported by UNESCO. Since its inception in 1989, competitions have been held in different countries every year. The country sends outstanding players to participate in the competition. As of last year, the number of participating teams reached 80 ( country), has become one of the most important youth competitions in the world. IOI has also announced that the host countries for the next few sessions are: Russia (2016), Iran (2017), Japan (2018), Azerbaijan (2019) and Singapore (2020).