Some Pictures from IOI'97

Monday 1 December 1997 (Excursions)

• Walking to breakfast on the UCT Campus with Table Mountain in the background
• Breakfast in Fuller Hall on the UCT Campus
• Minor breakfast challenge: Eating yoghurt with a fork
• The Dutch delegation at lunch in Houtbaai
• A visit to the World of Birds: Ries Kock is teaching an ostrich to read his badge
• First IC meeting
• GA meeting discussing the competition tasks for tomorrow

Tuesday 2 December 1997 (First Competition Day)

• The apartments for the delegation leaders, deputies, observers, and visitors
• Getting dinner in the kitchen
• South African entertainer making music on a kettle

Thursday 4 December 1997 (Second Competition Day)

• Dutch deputy translating (very early in the morning)
• This translation looks like Chinese to me
• Dutch delegation leader (still) translating
• Chinese delegation translates a clarification request
• A Taste of Portugal, host for IOI'98

Friday 5 December 1997 (Excursions)

• Going up Table Mountain in a (fast!) cable car
• Dutch delegation leader on top of Table Mountain (Cape Town in the background)
• Tom Verhoeff (IOI Secretariat) sits on ostrich eggs
• Dot (Guide of Dutch delegation) on a captured ostrich
• Zulu dancers
• At the GA Dinner we all get African hats (from left to right: Josine (NED), Jyrki (FIN), Gabriele (GER))

Saturday 6 December 1997 (Closing Ceremony)

• Janet Cook (Secretariat for IOI'97) and Donald Cook (Chairman of the Scientific Committee for IOI'97) reunited at the closing ceremony. They had hardly seen each other during the last couple of months while preparing and executing IOI'97.
• The top-10 gold-medal winners with Shadow (cheetah mascot of IOI'97). Besides a gold medal they received a certificate, a Microsoft Office'97 software package, and a Compaq palmtop computer.
• Vladimir Martianov (Russion Federation), top scorer at IOI'97, holding the IFIP TC3 Trophy
• Lionel Hartmann, Chairman of IOI'97, closes IOI'97 and introduces the IOI'98 Host, Portugal

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