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6.10.2021
The final of the World Programming Championship among university teams (International Collegiate Programming Contest) took place yesterday in Moscow – the absolute championship was won for the first time by a team of Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky. Seoul State University took the second place, ITMO University took the third and MIPT – the fourth place.
These are gold medalists – according to ICPС rules, there are 12 prize-winning places in the final. The winners are awarded four sets of gold, silver and bronze medals.
The team of VSTU - took 68th place.
It is worth noting that out of 15 Russian teams, polytechnics took the 13th place, ahead of MAI University team!
Recall that our team consisted of:
- Artem Nosov is a graduate of VSTU of the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering, an engineer of Yandex;
- Dmitry Bulankin – a Master's student of VSTU, an engineer of Yandex;
- Mikhail Kovalev is a graduate of VSTU, an engineer of Yandex.
Team Coaches:
- Vladislav Agafonov, graduate of VSTU, Huawei engineer, finalist of ICPC 2012 World Championship;
- Vladimir Chalyshev, graduate of VSTU, Facebook engineer, finalist of ICPC 2012 World Championship.
The team leader is Andrey Andreev, Head of the Department of Computer Science at VSTU.