Eligibility and representation

The competition is individual. Team submissions are not allowed.
Each participant must represent an educational institute that they are currently enrolled in.
There is no age limit.
Participants must be enrolled in an educational institute up to high school level at the time of registration and participation.
University students are not eligible.
The organizer may request proof of identity and proof of current enrollment at any stage.

Registration and advancement

Students must register through the official Neurora AI platform in order to participate.
Participants must provide accurate, complete and up-to-date registration information.
Each participant may use only one account and may not compete on behalf of another person.
If a qualified student cannot participate in the next stage, they must inform the organizer within 14 days of receiving their results or qualification notice.
If a student declines or misses the confirmation window, the place may be offered to the next eligible student in the ranking.

The olympiad consists of a Qualification Round, a National Round and an on-site Final Round.
Each round has its own curriculum, and more advanced rounds include the curriculum from previous rounds.
Each round may contain a different number of questions.
The time available for a round may vary depending on the difficulty and format of the tasks.
Problems will be designed so that they are solvable in Python.
During an active round, participants must use only the official competition channels for clarifications.

All submitted work must be the participant's own original work produced for the competition.
During an active round, participants may not discuss tasks, exchange solutions, or seek help from other people.
Participants may not publish, stream, record, share or otherwise disclose tasks or solutions before the organizer permits it.
The use of AI systems or generative tools to solve, explain, generate or significantly improve solutions is forbidden.
The organizer reserves the right to review submissions using automated and manual checks, including systems designed to flag AI-generated or plagiarized code.
Copying code or substantial solution ideas from websites, repositories, forums, previous contestants or other external sources is prohibited unless the material is explicitly provided by the organizer.

Any attempt to interfere with the platform, judging system, other participants, or the integrity of the competition is prohibited.
Malicious code, denial-of-service behavior, account sharing, automated submission abuse, or attempts to access unauthorized data are prohibited.
Participants are responsible for ensuring that the code they submit is the final version they wish to be judged.
The official language of the competition regulations, announcements and binding clarifications is English.

Participants must behave respectfully toward other participants, schools, organizers, mentors, volunteers and staff.
Harassment, intimidation, discriminatory behavior, abusive language or other misconduct may lead to disciplinary action.
Participants must follow all organizer instructions related to scheduling, identity checks, logistics and competition operations.

The organizer may interpret these regulations, issue clarifications and make final decisions on eligibility, scoring, advancement and discipline.
If the rules are broken, the organizer may apply disciplinary measures up to score cancellation, disqualification, removal from current rounds, loss of qualification, or banning the participant from future events.
The organizer may adjust schedules, round logistics or operational details when necessary for fairness, safety or technical reasons.