Indian students among 9 teams to reach final of Global IT Olympiad in Russia

Indian Express

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A team of Indian students secured their place among the top 20 teams in the Global IT Olympiad held in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The final competition featured eight other teams from Cuba, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Mozambique, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Sri Lanka.
Team India was place at one of the top spots in the event with school students from 51 foreign countries and the Russian Federation.
It was organised by the government of Nizhny Novgorod region, in partnership with Sber and the international programming and mathematics school 'Algoritmika'.
From May 30 to June 3, the Olympiad's final round was held at 'School 21,' where participants solved 10 tasks in five categories. The final showdown featured the best teams competing in a live CTF challenge, tackling cutting-edge problems in artificial intelligence and information security.
Alongside foreign students, participants from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk, Orenburg, and Moscow regions, as well as the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the Republic of Mordovia, and Krasnodar Krai also competed in the Olympiad.
The event concluded with an awards ceremony at the 'Digitalization of Industrial Russia' conference, featuring prominent attendees like German Gref and Dmitry Grigorenko.
German Gref, President, Chairman of the Management Board of Sberbank, said, 'I sincerely want to congratulate the participants of the IT Olympiad. You have already taken a huge step — you have created a platform and a springboard for your own future. In your lives, there may be various situations where you will doubt whether you can handle certain challenges. Remember that you made the decision to participate in this competition, you went through all the trials, and you even won!'
Dmitry Grigorenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Head of the Government Apparatus, said, 'The awarding of the finalists of the IT Olympiad is not coincidentally taking place today at CIPR. At the exhibition, we saw advanced digital solutions. But behind all these developments are people. For the IT industry in Russia to develop, we primarily need highly qualified personnel. Soon, you will become such personnel as interested young specialists. You are already part of the industry.'
'Over the past five years, we have managed to increase the number of budget places in universities for IT specialties by 2.5 times. More than 230,000 students have received qualifications in IT profiles. Major companies are actively involved in workforce training.
As part of the national project 'Data Economy,' we are launching new programs to train specialists in microelectronics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and unmanned systems,' he said.
Winners of the Global IT Olympiad
1st place — Team 0xY1 — a team of three participants from Nizhny Novgorod, the Moscow region, and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
2nd place — Team CapybarasCTF — a team of five participants from the Moscow region, Yaroslavl region, the Republic of Bashkortostan, and Moscow.
3rd place — Team ZipBomb — three participants from Moscow.
Sharma Dhananjay (India), participant of the team stage of the Olympic Games, said, 'I came to participate in the competition and found new friends. The assignments were very interesting. The educational materials and tasks of the Olympiad helped to understand the importance of cyber security for digital products. In the future, I'm sure I'll be able to use the acquired skills in my work.'