Algorithm and Code
Training School Online 2026

January 16–20, 2026

What is ACTS Online?

A four-day online intensive designed for school students aged 13-19 who want to improve their skills in competitive programming.

Why join?

Improve your knowledge and skills in key competitive programming topics while benefitting from expert feedback.

Boost your performance and reach the next level in national and international competitions.

Prepare for the Entrance Contest – your chance to join the in-person ACTS Camp.

What to expect

Four expert lectures

Dive deep into the core competitive programming topics that often come up in contests. Lectures will be in English.

Four thematic contests

After each lecture, you will solve different problems with guidance and support from our teachers.

Q&A sessions

Following every lecture and contest, ask your questions directly and get insights from teachers.

Who can join?

You!

School students aged 13–19 who:

Are currently enrolled in secondary education.

Already know the basics of competitive programming and want to strengthen their skills.

Want to improve their results in olympiads and plan to take part in the in-person ACTS Camp.

How to join?

Registration

Register for the Youth Challenge Coder competition.

Entrance contest

Participate in the Youth Challenge Coder competition on November 2, 9:00 am UTC.

Invitation

Show your best at the Youth Challenge Coder competition and receive an official invitation to ACTS Online 2026.

Meet our experts

Pavel Mavrin

ICPC World Champion 2004, IOI Silver Medalist 2002 and instructor with JetBrains Academy.

Niyaz Nigmatullin

ICPC World Champion 2012 and 2013, coach of the Neapolis University Pafos and Constructor University ICPC teams, and Researcher at JetBrains.

Mikhail Pyaderkin

ICPC Gold Medalist 2014 & 2015, IOI Gold Medalist 2010, Staff Software Engineer

Livia Magureanu

ICPC Silver Medal 2020, Project Coordinator at JetBrains

Have any questions?

Get in touch with us via acts.programming.camp@gmail.com – we’re always happy to help!

What our participants say

  1. Eliška Macáková
    International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) Gold medal, International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) Silver medal

    "If you want to get gold at IOI, meet a lot of cool people or just win a water gun and compete in rolling toilet paper as fast as possible, the ACTS camp is the right place for you. For me, it might've been even more fun than some of the international olympiads I've been to, because you have the same friendly-competitve environment, but it's less stressful, longer, and has even more activities occupying every part of the day. I've gained lots of new memories and knowledge, and I definitely recommend the camp to everyone else."

    Slovakia
    ACTS 2024
    Rares Felix Tudose
    International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) Gold medal

    “I loved the atmosphere and the classes this year – seeing how informatics could be applied to areas such as biology and economics was very cool. The organizers went out of their way to make sure there was always something fun to do, from a bot-writing tournament to IOI contests and advanced (but super interesting) lectures on topics like link-cut trees, matroids, and optimizing exponential algorithms. Can't wait to see what you have planned for the summer!”

    Romania
    ACTS 2024, ACTS 2025.1
    Ivan Osipenko
    Cyprus National Olympiad in Informatics 2nd place

    "The ACTS Camp in Serbia was the best camp I have ever been to. I enjoyed algorithmic lectures and IOI contests. Also, I really liked having lectures not only about algorithms and competitive programming, but also about cryptocurrency, Kotlin, and Bioinformatics. It was very useful!

    Besides studying, I played basketball, board games, and participated in fun activities organized by the camp.”

    Cyprus
    ACTS 2025.1
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