The first ten years Neil Sheldon

Three rounds of competition 4 levels, catering for everyone. Top performers go through to ... Round 2 Used to select the team(s) for ... International Linguistics Olympiad

UK Round 1 total entries

Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Foundation Intermediate Advanced

Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Targeted at KS2-3 Foundation Targeted at KS3-4 Intermediate Targeted at KS4 Advanced Targeted at KS5

Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Targeted at KS2-3 Problems 1-3 Foundation Targeted at KS3-4 Problems 2-5 Intermediate Targeted at KS4 Problems 4-7 Advanced Targeted at KS5 Problems 6-10

Round 1: the levels Breakthrough Flexible examination arrangements Marked in schools by teachers Foundation Flexible examination arrangements Intermediate Flexible examination arrangements Advanced Normal examination invigilation Marked externally Determines selection for Round 2

Round 1 entries by school sector

Round 1 entries, male vs female

Round 2 The top 16 (sometimes 17 or 18) candidates from Round 1 Residential weekend (Friday evening to Sunday mid- day) at a university Linguistics lecture on Friday evening (given by a member of staff at the host university) Tuition all day Saturday (given by UKLO tutors) Round 2 paper on Sunday morning The best 4 (or 8) make up the team(s) for the IOL

Round 2 locations Sheffield University Edinburgh University York University St Mary’s University College Liverpool Hope University Somerville College, Oxford Huddersfield University Trinity College, Cambridge Reading University

at the

at the in numbers 10 Olympiads 60 competitors 15 teams 27 individual contest medals (10 gold, 6 silver, 11 bronze) 12 honourable mentions 3 best solutions 3 team contest trophies (1 gold, 2 bronze) 1 first place team trophy 4 repeat medallists (including a 3 × gold and a 4 × gold) 2 dream teams

at the in places 2009 Wrocław (1 team) 2010 Stockholm (2) 2011 Pittsburgh (1) 2012 Ljubljana (1) 2013 Manchester (2) 2014 Beijing (1) 2015 Blagoevgrad (2) 2016 Mysore (1) 2017 Dublin (2) 2018 Prague (2)

A typical week Sunday arrivals Monday opening ceremony Tuesday individual contest, 6 hours Wednesday excursions Thursday team contest, 3 or 4 hours Friday solutions, prizes and closing ceremony Saturday departures

at the in places 2019 Yongin (Korea)

at the in medals

at the IOL, Olympic scoring

at the Hall of fame 2014 our first gold medal Ellie Warner Ellie has just finished her degree in Linguistics at Cambridge − and she has now been recruited to the Jury at the IOL

at the IOL: Hall of fame 2014 our first gold medal Ellie Warner

at the IOL: Hall of fame Sam Ahmed Triple gold medal winner 2015, 2016, 2017 Sam’s medal in 2017 was the top gold in the competition Sam is now at Cambridge reading linguistics − and he is a member of the Jury at the IOL

at the IOL: Hall of fame Liam McKnight Quadruple gold medal winner 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Liam is about to start at Cambridge, reading linguistics

at the IOL: Hall of fame World champions 2017 Alfie Ben Simi Ben Kamran Harry Sam Liam Vaughan Liow Hellsten Morris Sharifi Taylor Ahmed McKnight

The Rosetta Disk – wearable version One side has instructions in eight different languages and scripts (Bahasa Indonesia, English, Hindi, Mandarin, Modern Standard Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, and Russian). The instructions translate into English as "Languages of the world: This is an archive of over 1,000 human languages assembled in the year 02016 C.E. Magnify 100 times to find over 1,000 pages of language documentation." Each instruction starts at a human-eye readable size, and then spirals inward around a globe graphic, ending at the microscopic scale.

And coming up later … Benedict Randall Shaw Gold medal winner 2018 Westminster School Sarah O’Keeffe IOL contestant 2010 City of London Girls

The first ten years Neil Sheldon