International programming contest "KPI-Open"
Contest is held annually in June-July, starting from 2006.
Open international programming contest named by S.O.Lebedyev-V.M.Hlushkov "KPI-OPEN" is held by the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". From NTU "KPI" the main organizer of the project is the SSA.
The purpose of the contest – is to create conditions for improving training of students in programming and to improve the student teams results in competitions at various levels. And also to address the public's attention to the intellectual competitions among students, promotion of intellectual leadership and team spirit, professional development of talented youth, development of information technologies in Ukraine as one of the most promising sectors and the development of intercampus relationships and establish personal contacts among students from different countries.
The participants of the contest. Every year more than 50 student teams from 5 countries take part in the contest. The high level of participants is noted by organizers and partners of the project - IT-companies.
Conditions of the contest. Contest is held in two rounds ; teams are proposed to solve about 10 problems. Programming Languages - Object Pascal, C, Java.
Partners and sponsors. In different years the project was supported by such known companies as BMS Consulting, Sytronics, PocketBook etc.
