First announcement
        February 2016

• Founding of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO)
  
  
• Past Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads
  The 1^st APAO, Irkutsk (Siberia, Russia), December 4-11, 2005.
  The 2^nd APAO, Vladivostok (Far East, Russia), December 4-11, 2006.
  The 3^rd APAO, Xiamen (South-East China), November 21-29, 2007.
  The 4^th APAO, Bishkek (Kirgizia), November 16-23, 2008.
  The 5^th APAO, Damyang (South Korea), October 7-14, 2009.
  The 6^th APAO, Karubaga (Papua, East Indonesia), November 24 - December 5, 2010.
  The 7^th APAO, Aktyubinsk (West Kazakhstan), November 7-15, 2011.
  The 8^th APAO, Cox's Bazar (South-East Bangladesh), November 26 - December 4, 2012.
  The 9^th APAO, Tomohon (North Sulawesi, Indonesia), November 23 - December 2, 2013.
  The 10^th APAO, Irkutsk-Listvyanka (Siberia, Russia), November 24 - December 2, 2014.
  The 11^th APAO, Dhaka (Central Bangladesh), November 13-22, 2015.
  
  
• Guideline for new participating countries
  
  
• The main points for formation of the teams
  
  
• The official APAO e-mail is    a p a o [a] l i s t . r u
  
  
• The next Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad
  
  
• The International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO)

The main points for formation of the teams

The points proposed to be analogous to ones for the 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th and 11^th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads. Details are published in the 2^nd announcement.

National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 12^th APAO and in 2016 may form the teams for the 21^st IAO as well as for the 12^th APAO.

The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . r u .

Dates

The Olympiad will be held on November 17-25, 2016.

Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO)
ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Institute street 2, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia.

URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/apao/2015/
e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru
fax: + 7-(496-52)-28-160