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Dmitry Grigorenko opened the international IT Olympiad for schoolchildren.
An international IT Olympiad for schoolchildren has started in Russia. It will be attended by high school students from Russia and other countries, including Armenia, Belarus, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Cuba, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and South Africa.
Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko took part in the grand opening ceremony of the IT Olympiad, which was held at the Government Coordination Center. He noted that the education of future strong IT personnel is one of the key tasks that the Government is already solving.
Much attention was paid to the training of IT personnel within the framework of the implementation of the national project “Digital Economy”. During its implementation, the number of budget places in universities in IT specialties increased by 2.5 times, and more than 230 thousand students received qualifications in the IT profile. In the period from 2019 to 2024, 78 thousand IT specialists needed by the industry were trained.
Training of IT personnel has also become one of the key areas of the new national project “Data Economy and Digital Transformation of the State”. The national project stipulates that the number of employees in the IT industry by 2030 should be at least 1.4 million people. The state is also developing close cooperation with leading companies in the area of training IT personnel: new programs for training specialists in microelectronics, robotics, artificial intelligence and unmanned systems, focused on developing practical skills, are already being developed. At least 250 thousand students should undergo training with the participation of leading IT companies by 2030.
Such specialized educational projects as the International IT Olympiad contribute to the training of personnel and help identify talented schoolchildren interested in IT technologies and provide support in their further development in the profession.
“IT technologies are a digitalization tool that makes our lives more convenient and increases economic efficiency. But it will not work without specialists who know how to use it correctly. Artificial intelligence is already being actively implemented in Russia today, domestic IT solutions are being developed, and digital services for citizens are being developed. And there is always a person behind this process of digital transformation. Strong IT personnel are a request not only for Russia, but for the whole world. Looking at the Olympiad participants, who, despite their young age, are already demonstrating such interest in IT, we understand that the development of the industry is in good hands,” Dmitry Grigorenko emphasized.
The International IT Olympiad has a practical focus. The tasks and training materials are developed taking into account modern trends in the field of information technology, and are also aimed at solving practical problems. The focus is on such IT areas as information security, mathematical logic, the basics of algorithms and programming, data analysis, text processing and building simple models based on artificial intelligence.
The IT Olympiad was organized by the Nizhny Novgorod Region government, and the general partner was Sberbank. The opening ceremony was attended by Sberbank Chairman of the Board German Gref.
“Information technologies allow us to look at the world in a completely different way and connect very complex processes that, at first glance, are not connected to each other. But this can only be done by managing the entire technology stack. Humanity is on the threshold of gigantic discoveries. You guys live in the most interesting time in the most interesting world, because you had the chance to look beyond the horizon of knowledge that humanity could not even formulate as the end point of this journey. And you will be able to fulfill this dream. I want to wish you success in this most interesting journey. I am sure that you will succeed, because only self-confident people can participate in our international Olympiad, and I congratulate you on this,” said German Gref.
The 100 participants who complete the tasks best and score the most points will take part in the in-person final, which will be held on the campus of the digital technology school “School 21” from “Sber” in Nizhny Novgorod. As reported by the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin during the grand opening of the Olympiad, the award ceremony for the winners will take place at the anniversary international conference “CIPR” in June.
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