The first IT Essentials Interregional Olympiad among schoolchildren ends in Kazan
The Interregional Centre of Competencies - the Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications hosted the final of the first IT Essentials Interregional Olympiad on information technology among schoolchildren, organized by Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication, Ministry of Education and Science of the republic together with Cisco Network Academy.
Over 500 schoolchildren aged 13–16 from four regions of Russia, in particular Tatarstan, the Samara Region, the Perm Territory and the Chuvash Republic took part in the contest.
Participants showed their skills in building a personal computer, installing and configuring the Windows operating system and in installing and configuring the Linux Ubuntu operating system.
First Deputy Minister of Informatization and Communication of the republic of Tatarstan Dmitry Vandyukov handed over the diploma with a certificate for training at the Cisco Network Academy to the winner from the Perm Territory Ivan Kramskov. Nikita Firsov from the Chuvash Republic took the second place and by Kirill Salomatin from the Samara region took the third one.