Samsung summarized the results of the mobile application development contest “IT School chooses the strongest!”

The finals of the annual mobile application development competition “IT School chooses the strongest!” took place on July 5-6, 2023 in the online format. All graduates of the Samsung IT School program of the 2022/2023 academic year took part in the selection for the final round, with students from Armenia joining them for the first time this year. The contestants presented mobile applications for the Android platform, which they had developed during their year of study.

The contestants presented their mobile applications for the Android platform, which they had developed during their year of study.

More than 500 students graduated from the program in 2023. The results of the academic year were summarized at 57 Samsung IT School sites operating in Russia and Armenia. During the 1st year of training each student mastered 5 modules of the program and developed an individual project – a mobile application for the Android platform. The students determined the project ideas on their own.

The competition was held in three nominations: “Social applications”, “Games”, “Programming”. 56 mobile applications of 65 graduates from Russian and Armenian cities, 22 cities in total, made it to the second round of the contest. As a result of the work of the jury, which included Samsung experts, teachers and graduates of the Samsung IT School program, 19 best projects of graduates from 7 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Novorossiysk, Omsk, Tomsk and Dilijan, were selected for the finals.

The jury of the All-Russian contest “IT School Chooses the Strongest!” was headed by Albert Minniyarov, Head of the Department of Intelligent Project Quality Assurance Systems, Samsung. The jury of the finals was also attended by: Sergey Pevnev, Vice-President of Samsung Electronics Headquarters in the CIS; Samsung experts Svetlana Yun, Andrey Limasov, Anton Zhukov, Andrey Skripkin; Olga Maksimenkova, Associate Professor of Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Viktor Vikhrov, Head of the Yandex Go development group; Victor Vikhrov, Head of the Yandex.Lyceum Rudakovsky Artem; Pyaterochka app developer, X5 Group, Yuri Sazankov; senior product manager at INPAS, Mikhail Baburin; Android developer, Tinkoff Bank, Dmitry Gushel; teachers and graduates of the Samsung IT School program Irina Efremova and Vladimir Shperling.

Android developer, Tinkoff Bank, Dmitry Gushel; teachers and graduates of the Samsung IT School program, Irina Efremova and Vladimir Shperling.

“This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Samsung IT School program in Russia. The program became one of the first examples of successful implementation of the company’s global social and educational initiative – Samsung Innovation Campus for training future IT specialists. Over the past 10 years, the program has covered about 50 cities in Russia, and IT programs for university students have appeared. Joint centers of competence in the most advanced IT areas have been established in 30 leading universities of the country. Today, the Samsung Innovation Campus IT education program for young people is actively developing in more than 30 countries. Last year Armenia joined the program. The program was launched in Dilijan on the basis of UWC International College. Thanks to joint efforts, active participation and support of the project development by the college management, professionalism of teachers and all the staff involved in the project, the graduates of the program from Armenia developed successful projects and won prizes in the finals of the competition in all three categories. Since 2014, more than 5200 graduates have successfully completed our challenging educational program. According to the results of surveys, 97% of graduates recommend training at Samsung IT School to their friends, and 95% of them plan to continue their further development in the IT sphere,” emphasized Sergey Pevnev, Vice President of Samsung Electronics Headquarters for CIS countries.

The Samsung IT School program is unique, it promotes the development of talents and skills of young people who will contribute to the development of Russia and other countries in due time. When Ruben Vardanyan and I decided to establish UWC Dilijan International School in Armenia, we hoped that it would become a catalyst for the development of Dilijan itself and the education system in the country. We are happy that Samsung is implementing its program in Armenia on the basis of UWC Dilijan – we see the synergy of different educational initiatives and the effect it has on Armenian youth. Children from Armenia made it to the finals of the competition, and this makes us proud and happy for the achievements of our students. I can confidently say that our cooperation with Samsung has opened new opportunities for Armenia’s development,” said Veronica Zonabend, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of UWC Dilijan College, founder of charity projects in Russia and Armenia aimed at sustainable development.

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Grand Prize Award went to Sofya Tkach for her development of Dovery, an app for parents that helps schedule and distribute errands among all family members. The instructor is Ivan Murzin.

Murzin

In the “Game App” category, the winners were:

1 place – Emma Manukyan from Dilijan, UWC Dilijan College, with LightBrains application for the development of children’s intelligence through mental arithmetic. The teacher is Davtyan Arsen.

2nd place – Polina Mikhailova and Lukashenko Maria from Omsk, School No. 120, with Incredible Volleyball, a two-person game in which everyone tries to throw the ball to the opponent’s side. The teacher was Oleg Shelikhov.

3rd place – Vitaly Kozachenko from Kazan, SUNTS KFU, with the game ITL: Final Trial, where the favorite school is humorously reflected in the game world: to pass the locations reminiscent of the games of the 90’s, you need to perform a series of tasks. The teacher is Bulat Fakhrutdinov.

Winners in the nomination “Social application”:

1 place – Maxim Yasashny from Moscow, RTU MIREA, with an application for real gourmets Where is Caesar with a system of evaluating restaurants by specific dishes. The teacher – Fedor Sedov.

2nd place – Grigory Omelchuk and Alexander Kulagin from Moscow, TOC Samsung, with the application Buy – Help with the opportunity to participate in social and charitable initiatives on the basis of the chain of stores “Pyaterochka”. The instructor – Dmitry Egorov.

3rd place – Gagik Sargsyan from Dilijan, UWC Dilijan College, with the universal application Traveler, where you can share and learn information about different places and events on an interactive map while traveling. The instructor is Davtyan Arsen.

The instructor is Arsen Davtyan.

In the nomination “Programming” the winners were:

1 place – Mikhail Shumilov from Moscow, Samsung TOC, with the application Fields, which will make walking fun with the ability to compete and record walking in the form of patterns. The instructor is Alexander Nepretimov.

2nd place – Yaroslav Zhukov from St. Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity with ForBlitzStatistics application, designed for keeping competitive statistics on tank battles in the famous game. Teacher – Georgy Semyonov.

3rd place – Artyom Jangiryan from Dilijan, UWC Dilijan College, with the application ArFinance, which uses modern technologies for financial management. The instructor is Gardishyan Henrik.

In the special nomination “Viewers’ Choice” according to the results of online voting, the winner was Sergey Zhukov from Tomsk Hobby Center with the application Train Your Body – for those who do fitness on their own. The app helps not only to enter your own workout programs, but can also suggest workouts generated by the artificial intelligence GPT3.5-Turbo. The instructor is Igor Efimov.

The winner in the nomination “Partner of the Year” for the 2022/2023 academic year was the Engineering Lyceum of Novosibirsk State Technical University. In this nomination, since 2020, special achievements of educational organizations, on the basis of which the project “Samsung IT School” is implemented, have been marked.