AWARDING CEREMONY FOR WINNERS OF 4TH OPEN PROGRAMMING COMPETITION HELD IN YEREVAN
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Oct 9 2006
YEREVAN, October 9. /ARKA/. The ceremony of awarding the winners of
the 4th annual open programming competition was held in Yerevan.
Director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) Bagrat
Yengibaryan stated the three-stage contest was held from September
15 to October 4, 2006.
The second-year student of the Department of Applied Mathematics,
Yerevan State University, Gagik Amirkhanyan won the first stage of the
individual competition. The second stage (not part of the competition)
was in Tsakhkadzor as part of School of Information Technologies. So
winners were only selected in the first and third stages.
The teams of the Departments of Applied Mathematics of Yerevan State
University and of Russian-Armenian Slavonic University were winners
of the third stage, a team competition.
According to Yengibaryan, the participation in the competition opens
up new prospects for talented young people.
“Representatives of many international organizations specializing
in information technologies have started taking notice of our young
specialists,” he said.
Over 350 young people under 30 took part in the competition. The
bonus fund was about AMD 2mln (about $5.2ths).
The competition was sponsored by Synopsys Armenia, Virage Logic,
USAID, EIF, ACBA, “Unicomp” CJSC.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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