Between April 14 and 19, 2024, the finals of the International Student Programming Olympiad for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years took place in Egypt. Thanks to the support of Huawei Ukraine, four Ukrainian teams took part in the event: two from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), and one each from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
In the finals of the 2021-2022 season, the Taras Shevchenko National University team, consisting of Kostyantyn Lutsenko, Kostyantyn Savchuk and Vladyslav Zavodnyk, won silver medals at the Olympics. Other participants from Ukraine also showed decent results: Ivan Franko Lviv National University took 22nd place, and Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics took 27th place. The second KNU team took 95th place.
Before the selection in the final, the students demonstrated their skills in local competitions to earn participation in the International competition. During the Olympiad, the teams had to solve as many tasks as possible within a limited time, which required active cooperation. The effectiveness of the algorithms was checked automatically, which ensured the objectivity of the assessment. This competition format promotes the development of creative abilities, teamwork skills and the ability to work under limited time.
"These competitions are a kind of sport where students must demonstrate a high level of knowledge and skills in a short time. Participation in them also motivates students to compete with representatives of such world authorities as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or Oxford, and also contributes to the formation of a community of like-minded people," shared Oleksandr Vechur, coach of the team that received silver medals and associate professor of the department of software engineering at the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics.
In addition, the teams received special prizes from Huawei for success in the ICPC challenge, and the KNU team won the "U" (Toy Train Tracks) task.
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ICPC is one of the oldest and most prestigious programming competitions in the world. More than 50 students from more than 000 universities in 3 countries participate in the competition every year. The competition was launched to exchange ideas between the most talented young specialists in the field of programming, which allows to expand their knowledge and contributes to the further development of the industry.
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