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October 18th, Sofia. There are only few hours left until the start of the first round of the international programming contest organized by Musala Soft – CodeIT, held under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria. The official launch of the contest is on Friday, October 19th at 20:00h.
The new season welcomes all participants with treasure hunts and new challenges. You can explore the updated website with the new elements and cute pirates on the link www.codeit.bg.
Anyone with non-zero result will receive a t-shirt with this seasons’ adventurous mascot.There are also many other rewards for those with the best results and an exciting meeting with the world-famous IT guru – Scott Wu. He is a three-time IOI gold medalist and was the overall IOI winner in 2014. He went to Harvard, where he won a gold medal at the ICPC world finals in 2016. He previously worked at Addepar, Hudson River Trading, and Jane Street and is now the cofounder of a stealth startup in San Francisco. Scott started competing in programming contests in 2009 and still competes and commentates for fun. His favorite contest algorithm is sqrtN bucketing.
The first round of CodeIT Season 2018/19 (marathon) will be held online for 3 weeks. The round includes one task, for which every participant has to reach the optimal solution compared to the other contestants. “CodeIT not only stimulates the professional development and improvement of the young people involved with programming, but also gives them the opportunity to meet people with similar interests and lay the foundations for future beneficial professional cooperation.” sharedProf. Hristo Beloev, Rector of Ruse University “Angel Kanchev” and patron of the first round of the contest.
Additional information about CodeIT:
CodeITwww.codeit.bg is the most prestigious private programming contest in Bulgaria and one of the oldest in the world which Musala Soft (http://www.musala.com/) has been organizing since 2000.
According to the contest rules, there are six preliminary online rounds and a grand finale in Sofia. Only those who have the best results in the preliminary rounds will reach the final – 12 finalists from the general ranking and 5 from the junior ranking (up to 8th grade).
There are not any age limitations for participation in the contest but currently the participants are mainly high-school and university students with interests in algorithms and competitive programming, many of them medalists from National and International Olympiads and other contests.
The contest is also supported by government and academic institutions, NGOs, IT Associations, professional and business organizations.
Honorary chairman of the jury of the contest will be Prof. Krassimir Manev, President of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2014-2017 and President of the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (eJOI).
Musala Soft wishes good luck to all contestants in the forthcoming edition of the contest CodeIT and encourage them to follow their dreams!
Latest information about the contest can be found at CodeIT website www.codeit.bg and in the group on Facebook: https://goo.gl/GVrULo.
