Australia is sending a team of four students to Bonn, Germany, to compete in the European Girls Informatics Olympiad (EGOI) from 14 to 20 July 2025.
The team was announced by the Australian Maths Trust (AMT) in a virtual event on Tuesday 3 June 2025. The students selected to represent Australia are Alexa Wu in Year 9 at Pymble Ladies’ College in NSW, Jenny He in Year 10 at Pymble Ladies’ College in NSW, Christina Chen in Year 12 at Korowa Anglican Girls’ School in Victoria, and Ayana Fridkin in Year 10 at Caulfield Grammar School – Wheelers Hill in Victoria.
EGOI is the premier international competition for highly talented young women interested in Computer Science. The competition began in 2021 and attracts delegations from all over the world, and has the unique motivational goal of promoting female talent in computer science.
“Today, there are more employment opportunities in the IT industry than ever before, but it remains an area where women are significantly under-represented. It is one of our aims at the Australian Maths Trust to address this disparity and our decision to compete in the EGOI competition is an opportunity to demonstrate the capacity of young women and girls to excel in programming and problem-solving. Our team members have worked tirelessly to give themselves this chance and will hopefully inspire others to follow in their footsteps. In Bonn, they will meet many other young women from around the world who share their passion, and I am sure they will benefit enormously from this shared experience,” said Mike Clapper, CEO of the Australian Maths Trust (AMT), which selected and mentored the 2024 and 2025 Australian EGOI teams through its informatics program.
Australia first competed at the event in 2024 where three students earned bronze medals. This year three members of last year’s team, Alexa, Ayana and Christina, will represent Australia once again. The final member of the team, Jenny He, is competing for the first time.
This year’s EGOI team will be led by Shayla Nguyen (Team Leader) and Honey Raut (Deputy Leader). Shayla has EGOI experience having attended last year’s event as an Observer, and Honey competed as a member of the 2024 team.
AMT’s EGOI initiative is supported by the Trust’s National Sponsor of the Australian Informatics and Mathematical Olympiad Programs, Optiver, strategic higher education partner University of New South Wales, and the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources.