{"id":144670,"date":"2025-05-20T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/?p=144670"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:46:43","slug":"major-national-distinction-for-mandoulides-student-at-the-1st-panhellenic-artificial-intelligence-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/major-national-distinction-for-mandoulides-student-at-the-1st-panhellenic-artificial-intelligence-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Major National Distinction for Mandoulides Student at the 1st Panhellenic Artificial Intelligence Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"657\">Dimitris Toulis, a 12th-grade student at <strong data-start=\"258\" data-end=\"281\">Mandoulides Schools<\/strong>, achieved a major national distinction by winning <strong data-start=\"332\" data-end=\"347\">first place<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"417\">1st Panhellenic Artificial Intelligence Competition (PAIC)<\/strong>. With his top performance, he secured the <strong data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"487\">first of the four spots<\/strong> on the Greek National AI Team, which will represent Greece at the <strong data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"619\">International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI 2025)<\/strong> in Beijing, China (August 2\u20139, 2025).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"944\">The final phase of the competition, named <strong data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"715\">\u201cPandora,\u201d<\/strong> took place in Athens with the participation of <strong data-start=\"763\" data-end=\"778\">90 students<\/strong> from across Greece. The top 25% of participants were recognized for their high scores, while <strong data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"903\">four students were selected<\/strong> to form Greece\u2019s first National AI Team.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"946\" data-end=\"1348\">Dimitris Toulis scored <strong data-start=\"969\" data-end=\"983\">239 points<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"989\" data-end=\"1006\">highest score<\/strong> in the final phase, significantly surpassing the other distinguished competitors. Notably, in the preliminary round he had already stood out, achieving <strong data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1210\">331.21 points in a system with a maximum of 330<\/strong>, as he developed a solution more efficient than the committee\u2019s proposed solution, earning a score <strong data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1347\">exceeding the theoretical maximum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1350\" data-end=\"1433\">Dimitris has also received important distinctions in other competitions, including:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"2226\">\n<li data-start=\"1435\" data-end=\"1524\">\n<p data-start=\"1437\" data-end=\"1524\"><strong data-start=\"1437\" data-end=\"1453\">Bronze medal<\/strong> at the <strong data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"1492\">6th Balkan Physics Olympiad<\/strong>, Montenegro, June 20\u201324, 2024<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1525\" data-end=\"1674\">\n<p data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1674\"><strong data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1543\">Bronze medal<\/strong> at the <strong data-start=\"1551\" data-end=\"1603\">European Olympiad of Experimental Science (EOES)<\/strong> as part of the Greek three-member team, Luxembourg, April 7\u201314, 2024<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1675\" data-end=\"1884\">\n<p data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1884\">Qualification and participation in the <strong data-start=\"1716\" data-end=\"1763\">national informatics team preparation camps<\/strong>, Athens (March 13\u201316, 2024, and May 5\u20139, 2025), after three rounds of the <strong data-start=\"1838\" data-end=\"1882\">37th Panhellenic Informatics Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"2012\">\n<p data-start=\"1887\" data-end=\"2012\"><strong data-start=\"1887\" data-end=\"1901\">Gold medal<\/strong> at the <strong data-start=\"1909\" data-end=\"1972\">4th HellenicYNT (Physics + Chemistry + Biology Competition)<\/strong> with the school team, April 7\u20139, 2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2013\" data-end=\"2134\">\n<p data-start=\"2015\" data-end=\"2134\"><strong data-start=\"2015\" data-end=\"2028\">3rd place<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"2036\" data-end=\"2101\">second round of the Panhellenic Student Chemistry Competition<\/strong> (2nd place in the first round)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2135\" data-end=\"2226\">\n<p data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2226\"><strong data-start=\"2137\" data-end=\"2150\">3rd place<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"2158\" data-end=\"2199\">Panhellenic Physics Competition (EEF)<\/strong> with a score of <strong data-start=\"2216\" data-end=\"2226\">97\/100<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"2228\" data-end=\"2534\">It is worth noting that among the participants, <strong data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2307\">Promitheas\u2013Panagiotis Nikou<\/strong>, also a 12th-grade student at Mandoulides Schools, achieved a <strong data-start=\"2370\" data-end=\"2389\">very high score<\/strong> in the preliminary phase (<strong data-start=\"2416\" data-end=\"2430\">314.16\/330<\/strong>) and qualified for the final, where he was selected as an <strong data-start=\"2489\" data-end=\"2509\">alternate member<\/strong> of the National AI Team.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2536\" data-end=\"2682\">These significant achievements by the two students highlight the <strong data-start=\"2601\" data-end=\"2681\">high level of education in Technology and Informatics at Mandoulides Schools<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2684\" data-end=\"2943\">The Panhellenic Artificial Intelligence Competition is a <strong data-start=\"2741\" data-end=\"2766\">pioneering initiative<\/strong> in secondary education, giving students the opportunity to develop skills in cutting-edge fields such as <strong data-start=\"2872\" data-end=\"2942\">machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2945\" data-end=\"3062\">The official competition results are available at: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/pdtn.gr\/results2025.pdf\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"2996\" data-end=\"3062\">https:\/\/pdtn.gr\/results2025.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Toulis, a 12th-grade student at Mandoulides Schools, achieved a major national distinction by winning first place in the 1st Panhellenic Artificial Intelligence Competition (PAIC). With his top performance, he secured the first of the four spots on the Greek National AI Team, which will represent Greece at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":141893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,125,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-distinctions","category-junior-high-school-high-school-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144671,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144670\/revisions\/144671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}