Joint cross-club mentor exchange · April pilot

The IOL Club English programme and our China sister site at iolc.org.cn are running a joint pilot through April-June 2026: a single mentor pool serves both cohorts, so a student joining via English chat gets the same walkthrough style as one joining via WhatsApp.

Concretely, three things change for the next three months:

• Shared past-problem worksheets. The same problem set anchors each week’s session, so cross-cohort discussion is possible.
• Bilingual office hours. One office hour per week alternates English/Chinese so any mentor can take any question.
• Unified contest calendar. Both sites now read from the same upstream calendar tracked at ioling.org.

This is not a merger – English programme runs on its own cadence with its own application flow. It is a back-end coordination so resources stop being duplicated. If you joined via WhatsApp already, no action needed. If you are joining now, the WhatsApp add still routes you to the English programme.

Pilot ends end of June; we will publish a short review then.

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