Registration for AILO 2023/4 is now open. It is open to all secondary schools students on the island. Sign up so you can access free workshops around the country from September to December and receive monthly sample puzzles. The preliminary round of AILO takes place in your own school in January and the final will place in Dublin in March. This year students will compete to represent Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Brasilia, Brazil in July 2024. You can read the AILO Brochure 2024 Web for more details.
AILO challenges secondary school students to test their minds against the world’s
most fascinating problems in logic, language and linguistics. New training materials and the
brochure have been produced thanks to funding from the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts,
Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Cooperation with Northern Ireland scheme. AILO selects the
Irish team for the International Linguistics Olympiad which will be held in Brasilia, Brazil in July 2024. Students may only take part in one national linguistics olympiad in a calendar year.
AILO also has a free linguistics Transition Year (TY) module. The module, funded by Post-Primary
Languages Ireland (PPLI) in 2022 and designed by ADAPT researchers, AILO and AILO teachers, is
designed as teacher-led online resources, hosted on https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/tylinguisticsmodule/.
The module introduces areas such as sociolinguistics and syntax and links to a related AILO puzzle. To
register your interest in the module and be eligible for participation certificates, please go to
https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/tylinguisticsmodule/. Please note, all secondary school students and
teachers may use these materials in their classes.
Sept – Dec Sample puzzles available at https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/puzzles/
September Free Linguistics Module https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/ty-linguistics-module/
Nov – Dec Free workshops in schools in locations around the island and online
19th Jan Registration https://ailo.adaptcentre.ie/enter/ for AILO 2023/4 closes
Week 22 Jan Preliminary Round takes place in your own school via online submission form
March Top 100 qualify for National Final in Dublin City University
July Top four represent Ireland at the International Olympiad in Brasilia in Brazil.