MIPT and MISIS to Hold Programming Olympiad
The winners who apply to either of the engineering universities are entitled to preferences.
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and National University of Science and Technology MISIS invite Russian-speaking schoolchildren in 7th – 11th grades from any countries to take part in the “Cognitive Technologies” Olympiad. The academic competition comprises online tryouts which will run from 16 to 22 December 2019, and the finals. Candidates have to solve eight to 12 programming problems online using C, C++, Pascal, Java or Python. Register on the Olympiad website by 15 December to get the link to the problems. Top scorers will take part in the finals at MIPT and MISIS venues in Russia, as well as in Tajikistan (7 Nazarshoyev Str., Dushanbe) and Uzbekistan (56 Amir Temur Str., Almalyk) on 12 January 2020. The Olympiad winners who plan to apply to MIPT or MISIS will have an advantage. For example, MISIS applicants will be admitted to field-specific programmes without entrance examinations. Those who choose MIPT are entitled to 100 Unified State Exam points in computer science.
IT professions are in demand on the labour market. Informatics and Computer Science and Distributed Computing Security are among the information technology programmes available at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Automated Systems, Data Processing and Control Intelligent Systems etc. are offered by National University of Science and Technology MISIS. Use the convenient search tool on our website to find more programmes.
