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The AILO 2019 Final will take place in Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin on Tuesday 26th March 2019. This round will take the top 100 students from the schools preliminary round on Tuesday 29th January 2019.

The final will start at 09.30 in “The Venue” in the U Student Centre and the team competition will take place that afternoon.

For details on how to get to Dublin City University please see here.

The preparations for the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad 2017 (AILO) picked up the pace in January this year with 17 problem-solving workshops held in schools and universities across the country reaching almost 480 students from across the island of Ireland. AILO is a key element of the nationwide Problem-Solving Initiative, supported by Science Foundation Ireland and run by the ADAPT Centre.

These workshops gave students a valuable opportunity to work through linguistics problems with experts from ADAPT and previous AILO competitors by practising their problem solving strategies and linguistics skills.

This year we teamed up with Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Limerick to host workshops for students in the area. Workshops were also held in Cork City, Tralee, Athlone, Athenry, Castlebar, Letterkenny, Dublin, Wicklow and Maynooth among others.

Almost 4,000 students will compete in the first round of AILO 2017 in their schools on 1st February 2017. The top 100 language decoders will qualify for the national final of AILO 2017 on 24th March at Dublin Institute of Technology.

Ireland’s top four secondary school Linguistic problem-solvers win the chance to represent their country at the International Linguistics Olympiad in India in July

Four secondary school students from across the island of Ireland have been selected to test their language decoding skills against the world’s best at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Mysore, India in July. The students, from Dublin and Donegal, finished ahead of 100 opponents in the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) Finals, which were recently held at Trinity College Dublin.

Prof. Vincent Wade (CEO, ADAPT) pictured with Pádraig Sheehy, Richard Neville, Claire O’Connor, Dónal Farren and Dr. Cara Greene (National Coordinator AILO, ADAPT)

Run by the Science Foundation Ireland funded ADAPT Centre, the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) aims to inspire the next generation of multilingual technology graduates, who possess a combination of language competency and problem solving expertise.

Pádraig Sheehy of Gonzaga College, Ranelagh (Dublin) is the Senior Champion. He will be joined in India by fellow team members Claire O’Connor of St. Louis Rathmines (Dublin), Richard Neville of St. Andrews College, Booterstown (Dublin) and Dónal Farren of St. Eunan’s College (Donegal) who finished second, third and fourth respectively in the Senior competition.

The Junior competition was won by Alexander Harding of Maynooth Post Primary School (Kildare). Tristan l’Ansen Sparks of Methodist College (Belfast), Aleksandr Gusev of Royal School (Cavan) and Ross Beatty of St. Andrew’s College, Booterstown (Dublin) clinched the 2nd, 3rd anad 4th place spots.

Olympiad National Coordinator Dr. Cara Greene of ADAPT said, “Pádraig, Claire, Richard and Dónal will do Ireland proud in India. They will be challenged with some of the toughest linguistic puzzles in the world during the individual and team competitions at the international Olympiad.”

Finalists have received tuition from experts at the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, a €110 million academia-industry research centre developing advanced technology to adapt and personalise digital content and services to the needs of global users. They will receive further tuition before they leave to represent Ireland in the Finals in India later this year.

Coming to a school near you in early 2016, the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) problem-solving workshops will help you to hone your problem-solving skills and prepare you for Round 1 of the contest.

You will receive free tuition by experts in linguistics and problem-solving strategies.

82% of AILO 2015 participants report having improved their problem-solving skills by taking part in the contest. Don’t miss out! Register for AILO 2016.

Note that teachers must register to get an invitation email to apply for places at a workshop.

Workshops

All workshops will take place on dates between 11^th – 22^nd January 2016. Dates for each location will be updated here once they are confirmed.

Methodist College, Belfast City, Antrim    [Wednesday 27th January]

Royal School Cavan, Cavan Town, Cavan  [Monday 11th January]

St. Caimin’s Community School, Shannon, Clare [Thursday 21st  January]

St. Francis College Rochestown, Cork      [Wednesday 20th January]

Douglas Community School, Douglas, Cork    [Friday 15th January]

Loreto Letterkenny, Donegal   [Tuesday 12th January]

Abbey Donegal Town, Donegal    [Monday 11th January]

Sutton Park School, Sutton, Dublin North [Friday 15th January]

St. Finian’s Community College, Swords, Dublin North [Monday 18th January]

Gonzaga College, Ranelagh, Dublin South [Tuesday 12th January]

Tallaght Community School,  Dublin South West [Wednesday 13th January]

Maynooth Post Primary School, Kildare [Thursday 14th January]

Ardscoil Ris, Limerick  [Friday 15th January]

St. Louis Sec School, Dundalk, Louth    [Friday 15th January]

Roscommon Community School, Roscommon [Wednesday 20th January]

Newtown School    Waterford    [11-22 January]