The second month of summer for students, who are fond of programming, traditionally begins with the International Olympiad on Programming "KPI-OPEN" named after S.O. Lebedev and V.M. Glushkov. The year 2013 has not become an exception: on 2nd July the Olympiad solemnly opened in the Hall of the Academic Council of The National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
For the past eight years, the "KPI-OPEN" Olympiad has become the largest in Ukraine and one of the world's largest ‘face to face’ programming contest among students. This year there are more than 90 commands from 64 universities of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Turkey, Hungary, Moldova, Estonia and Poland – in all almost 400 participants.
The organizers of the Olympiad are NTUU "KPI" and Vanopl Development Group with support provided by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and the Cybernetic center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The Olympiad is realized in accordance with the original rules, which are in chime with the international. This feature of Olympiad together with absence of an organizational fee turn «KPI-OPEN» into ideal platform for a meeting of young programmers.
The organizers emphasize, that among the primary goals, which they aim at, there are: to promote an increase of professional level of the future experts in the field of IT, to establish good intercollegiate relations and personal contacts between students from different cities and countries, and to give them an opportunity to try themselves in a teamwork. Moreover, of course, to draw attention of a society to intellectual interest and achievements of today's students and to popularize the trades connected with the newest technologies.
“I am confident that students-programmers, who are taking part in this Olympiad, not only will have an opportunity to show their creative qualities, but also will get new useful skills; begin new contacts and friendly relations with contemporaries from different universities and countries of the world. In such a way, creates a big, positive chain of very talented people”, - said the president of NTUU “KPI” Mykhailo Zgurovskyi at the opening ceremony.
As for IT companies, which joined the organization of Olympiad, here they receive a great opportunity to look closely at participants as to the potential future colleagues. Therefore, together with Olympiad, has now become traditional the practice of carrying out the presentations, seminars and lectures, during which experts from IT companies share their practical experience and knowledge and acquaint young programmers with problems, which face the industry at this stage of development. Therefore, in the program of the Olympiad there are also various competitions provided by the partners, which winners will receive useful prizes. Certainly, there is as well an interesting cultural program, which organizers took care of.
Therefore, sponsors of "KPI-OPEN 2013" have become companies of INLINE GROUP WEST, Seasonic Electronics Co., Schneider Electric, Western Digital and WebMoney Transfer.
Prize fund of the Olympiad consists of Seasonic power supply units, devices of APC Power-Saving (Schneider Electric), Western Digital hard drives and traditional crystal prize of KPI-OPEN
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Thus, the 8th International Open Students Olympiad on Programming named after S.O. Lebedev and V.M. Glushkov "KPI-OPEN 2013" has started. During the two rounds, participants will have to solve fourteen non-trivial problems, in order to define who among them understand the programming better. However, we can definitely confirm that today all, who are members of these competitions, are the winners, after all - the best at their universities, and take part in one of the most prestigious tournaments in the Eastern Europe. Certainly, someone will manage to become first, but for others it will be only stimulus for self-improvement. Moreover, for all - a remarkable experience of a teamwork for victory. In addition, who among them, nevertheless, will get on the podium this year, they will get to know on July 5 - during summarizing and rewarding the winners.
Translated by Gurcheva Anastasia LA-02