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The SPOI Mentorship Program 2025
By unforgettablepl, 5 months ago, In English

Hello Codeforces community!

As some of you might already know, UFDS has been discontinued. My friends and I were quite dejected to hear this, so we decided (after getting permission) to create something similar but disjoint.

We are excited to announce the SPOI (Shortest Path to IOI) Mentorship Program for 2025, which is aimed at Indian school students preparing for the ZCO, INOI, and IOITC. This program is completely free, and we strive to establish its reputation as the premier initiative to help aspiring IOITC qualifiers.

Our program offers:

  • Regular lectures on competitive programming topics.
  • Practice problems after these lectures, along with carefully curated problem sets.
  • A structured syllabus that goes hand-in-hand with INOI.

Most importantly, by joining the program, you will get access to ZCO and INOI mocks for practice.

Although this program is primarily aimed at students eligible for the Indian Computing Olympiads, we will consider other applicants on a case-by-case basis, with participants from other countries' Informatics Olympiads having a higher chance of getting accepted. For more information on the eligibility for the Indian Computing Olympiads, click here.

If you're interested in joining, please fill out this form.

Our team of enthusiastic mentors (many of whom were also UFDS mentors) includes multiple IOI medallists and IOI campers.

We look forward to helping you achieve your programming goals!

Regards,
The SPOI Mentorship Program Team

Founders: Samik Goyal (unforgettablepl), Oviyan Gandhi (oviyan_gandhi), Avighna Chhatrapati (avighnakc)

Mentors: Dominater069, Everule, blue, PoPularPlusPlus, astoria, ak2006, accord, evenvalue, hariaakash646, saarang, rm1729

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by unforgettablepl (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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As a person who knows the ppl behind this project, I confirm that u all will like this program.

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As someone who has worked with accord in setting rounds and other CP related activities, I can guarantee he is truly orz! All the best to the mentors as well as the mentees for the program!

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former ufds member here, the people behind this program have been very active and supportive back there..

really cool initative they have here

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Sir I got late information about this, is there any way of joining this program now,I am 11th standard and I really want to qualify IOI and make India proud

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    Yes, you still can join the group just fill the google form and join the discord group

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      How? Form is closed.

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      sir, I am shagun srivastava .I had qualified zco last year but coudn't qualify inoi. I want to join the group. Plz provide me with the discord link as the google form is closed. THANK YOU

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        The form link has changed recently. It will be updated in the blog post soon, but for now you can get it through our website

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    The form link has changed recently. It will be updated in the blog post soon, but for now you can get it through our website

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Is the program still open to join for INOI? I was unaware of the program earlier.I have cleared ZCO and came across this during further research. I filled the form but unfortunately the discord invite link seems to have been closed.

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    The invite link is still valid. Please ensure that you clicked on the correct link, the one at the end of the form. Send me a message on codeforces if you still face any issues.

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