Yanka Kupala State University students reached the semifinals of the international student programming olympiad

For the first time Kupala University will be represented by two teams in the semifinals of the ICPC international Collegiate Programming Contest.

On November 14, Belarusian State University hosted a team programming championship competition among higher education institutions in Belarus and the Baltic States. At the same time, for participants from Belarus, Kaliningrad and Latvia, these competitions were the selection (quarterfinals) of the ICPC student team world championship – Belarus and Baltics Regional Contest 2020 (XXIII NERC Western regional contest). In the quarterfinals, students were asked to solve 12 algorithmic problems in 5 hours. The victory was awarded to the team that solved the most problems in the shortest time.
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was represented by three teams of students from the Faculty of Economics and Management and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. All Kupala students train under the guidance of senior lecturer of the Department of Mathematical and Information Support of Economic Systems, Faculty of Economics and Management Yuri Stepin.
Two teams of our University won the right to play in the semifinals, which will be held on December 13. Previously, only the teams of Belarusian State University and the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics had the opportunity to represent a higher educational institution of Belarus in the semifinals with more than one team.
A total of 71 teams from 16 higher education institutions in Belarus and the Baltic States took part in the competition. Only 14 of them reached the semifinals, which will be held in December this year in St. Petersburg. The championship final will be held in the fall of 2021.