The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (Education and Outreach Programme) is running the first ever Linguistics Olympiad held in Ireland today, 27th April 2009 in the Venue in the Hub in DCU.

  
Organisers of the event: Cara Greene and Prof. Harold Somers of CNGL.

Many disciplines such as science, maths, creative writing and music run competitions to find the most promising young students. Some take the form of projects or experiments, while others involve composition or performance. A LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD involves face-to-face competition where teams or individuals have to use their ingenuity, creativity and skill to solve language-related problems.

CNGL are running both an individual competition and team competition in conjunction with the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO).

Every school had been allocated a tutor to help them to prepare for the competition. CNGL researchers and PhD students have attended AILO training / information sessions with the CNGL E&O programme to become AILO tutors.

Fifteen schools (25 teams) from the Republic and Northern Ireland are taking part in the team competition in DCU on Monday. Approximately 80 second-level students will take part in both the team and individual competition.

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