Fourth-year HSE students Ivan Safonov and Mikhail Anoprenko of the Faculty of HSE Students Computer Science have won a bronze award in the International Collegiate Programming Contest. The competition finals were held in Moscow on October 5. Students from HSE University’s campuses in Moscow and St. Petersburg took part in the competition? with the team from Russia’s second city placing 19th overall.
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Contest (ICPC) is a major international student competition in sem: conversion of search from yahoo! and microsoft algorithmic programming. The finals were originally scheduled for summer 2020? but were postpone due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 5? 2021? 117 teams from over 60 countries came to Moscow to compete.
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ICPC finalists comprises several stages. Universities around the joint work of participants the world are divide into regional categories with their own semi-finals. Every year? a set number of teams from each region goes through to the finals. Twenty teams from the Northern Eurasian region (which covers Russia) made it to the finals? where each university campus can field only one team. This year’s finalists included a team from the HSE University Faculty of Computer Science in Moscow? as well as students from the HSE campus in St. Petersburg.
‘I’ve taken part in IT competitions for many years? since I was a who awb directory are school student. My teammates and I already knew each other from various school competitions and camps?’ explained Mikhail Anoprenko? a fourth-year student of Applied Mathematics and Information Science. ‘We ended up at the same university and decided to put a team together for the ICPC. We did well—we made it to the finals? which were finally hel recently.’