Rzeczpospolita Polska
Minister Edukacji Narodowej			Warsaw, 6 March 1997

To <selected countries>

Dear Minister,

	I have the pleasure to announce that Poland will host 
the 4-th Central European Olympiad in Informatics in Nowy Sacz
17 July - 24 July, 1997.

	Please find enclosed the official invitation to this event.

	We would be honoured if we could greet a team from your country as
participant in the contest.

	Yours sincerely     (signed)   

			Prof. dr hab. Jerzy J. Wiatr





			INVITATION

	On behalf of the Polish Ministry of National Education the
National Committee of Polish Olympiad in Informatics has the honour to
invite your team of four secondary school students, a team leader and a
deputy team leader to the 

	4th Central European Olympiad in Informatics
			CEOI'97
		   17-24 July 1997

	The Olympiad aims at motivating secondary school students
of Central Europe to
- get more interested in informatics and information technology in
general,
- test and prove their competence in solving problems with the help of
computers,
- exchange knowledge and experience with other students of similar
interest and qualification,
- establish personal contacts with young people of the Central-European
region.

	Teams of the following countries are invited as regular
participants:
	1. Austria   2. Croatia	   3. Czech Republic	4. Hungary
	5. Poland    6. Romania	   7. Slovak Republic	8. Slovenia

	Teams of the following countries are invited as guest
participants:
	9. Belarus    10. Estonia  11. Germany 	12. Latvia
	13. Lithuania 14. Sweden   15. Ukraine	16. United States
	17. Yugoslavia

	The contest will take place in Nowy Sacz. The preliminary schedule
is as follows:

	Thursday, 17 July	Arrival of teams,
	Friday, 18 July		Opening Ceremony, General Assmbly Meeting,
	Saturday, 19 July	1st Competition Session,
	Sunday, 20 July 	Excursion,
	Monday, 21 July		2nd Competition Session,
	Tuesday, 22 July	Excursion,
	Wednesday, 23 July 	Closing and Awarding Ceremony,
	Thursday, 24 July 	Departure of the teams.

	The participating countries will have to cover the travel expenses
to and from Nowy Sacz. Full board and accomodation costs will be paid by
the organizers.

	Please remember the following deadlines:

Preliminary registration:	30 March 1997
Confirm that your country intends to delegate a team, and give us
names of team leader and deputy team leader, number of students,
number of guests (at own expense).

Final registration:		31 May 1997
Names and other personal data of all members of delegation, arrival and
departure times and means.


Correspondence

By mail:
Dr Andrzej Walat
Osrodek Edukacji Informatycznej i Zastosowan Komputerow
02-026 Warszawa, Raszynska 8/10, Poland

By mail, e-mail and fax:
Prof Stanislaw Waligorski
Instytut Informatyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski
02-097 Warszawa, Banacha 2, Poland
fax (+48 22) 6583164
email waligor@mimuw.edu.pl

We are looking forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.

					(signed)
				Prof. dr Stanislaw Waligorski
					President
				The National Committee
			of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics