Samsung Announced the Winners of Contest «IT School Chooses the Strongest!»

The «IT School chooses the strongest!» contest final was held online on July 5-6, 2022. All 2021/2022 academic year graduates of the Samsung IT School took part in the selection for the final round. They presented Android mobile applications on Java, which they created during the year of study.

In 2022, more than 500 schoolchildren became graduates of Samsung IT School, 21% mastered the program with excellent marks. The results of the academic year were summed up at 55 sites operating throughout Russia: from Kaliningrad to the Far East. During the year of study, each student mastered five modules of the program and developed a Java Android application as an individual project. The children came up with their ideas for the projects.

The contest was held in three categories: «Social app», «Game app», and «Programming». The jury of final included Samsung R&D Russia (SRR) specialists, teachers and graduates of the Samsung IT School, developers from leader IT companies. After two rounds, the jury selected 19 best projects created by schoolchildren from 7 cities: Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, and Khabarovsk.  The authors of these works competed in the final.

The finalists’ applications were judged by the idea relevance and novelty, functionality, technical implementation, usability and design.

As in the previous two years “IT School chooses the strongest!» was held online, so everyone was able to join the discussion of the contestants’ work and support young developers by taking part in voting in the special nomination «Viewers’ Choice».

Roman Aynbund, Head of SRR Technology Management Team, headed the jury of the contest.

The jury of Final was also attended by:

• Sergey Pevnev, Vice President of Samsung Electronics CIS HQ ;
• Yun Svetlana, Limasov Andrey, Kovalchuk Anatoly and Visochan Andrey, SRR experts;
• Sergey Yakovlev, Head of the Solutions Development Group for Protecting Workstations at Kaspersky Lab;
• Andrey Pavlov, Leading expert of the HSE University Institute of Education;
• Viktor Vikhrov, Head of the Yandex Go development team;
• Artem Rudakovskiy, Head of the technical development group of Yandex.Lyceum;
• Yury Mironov, Alexey Shvedchikov, Arina Dorofeeva, teachers and graduates of the Samsung IT School.

Ilya Kurilin, Head of the SRR AI Imaging Team took part in the program of the second day with a lecture on smartphone image processing using computational algorithms and neural networks.

Anton Vorobyov and Dmitry Ledohovich from Moscow became the absolute winners, the owners of the Grand Prix, with the project an umbrella rental system, which they developed under the guidance of teacher Fyodor Sedov. A service with a working device prototype allows the user to read the barcode and pick up the umbrella, and then return it to another storage.

Winners in the «Programming» nomination:

1st place — Dmitry Martynenko from Moscow, who developed a client application for Gerrit servers.

2nd place — Anton Matkin from Moscow with the Presentio service, which allows you to make wish lists and choose gifts for friends.

3rd place — Andrey Malyshev from Moscow with the Mototrack navigation app designed to reduce the number of motorcycle accidents. The service sends to car drivers notifications about nearby motorcyclists so that they are more careful on the roads.

In the “Game App” nomination, the jury chose two projects, which took third place. The winners were:

1st place — Oleg Lomachenko from Moscow with the billiard simulator SECRETBALL. Thanks to the carefully crafted audiovisual design and object movement physics, players get the most realistic experience from the game.

2nd place — Polina and Daria Kartseva from Moscow with the game DutiLuny, which takes place in a mysterious and sinister hotel.

3rd place — Anastasia Surkova from Novosibirsk with the Blitz game, which offers players to work as a courier by clicking to complete tasks faster, and Violetta Andreeva from Omsk with the Jar of Jam quest in the style of Russian folk tales.

Winners in the «Social app» nomination:

1st place — Elisey Verevkin and Artur Repin from Omsk with the Mobile Therapist service, which helps doctors save time when visiting patients at home by automating work with documents.

2nd place — Adel Nasyrov from Kazan with the FridgeXLite application, which allows you to select recipes and dishes based on available products.

3rd place — Anastasia Pustygina from Moscow with the Social Assistant service for communication between social organizations and people who are ready to become volunteers.

Andrey Malyshev with the Mototrack application won in the «Viewers’ Choice» nomination.

Based on the results of the 2021/2022 academic year, the “Partner of the Year” nomination winner was the Lyceum No. 2 in Irkutsk. Since 2020, this category celebrates the special achievements of educational organizations on the basis of which Samsung IT School is being implemented.

“Every year participants of “IT School chooses the strongest!” demonstrate an excellent level of project development. The kids go through the entire technological cycle of creating software products, trying on various specialties of the IT industry: from a project manager, analyst and marketer to a developer, UI/UX designer and tester. In this sense, the Samsung IT School program is also an opportunity to understand which IT specialization is closer and more interesting to a student,” said Roman Aynbund, Chairman of the Contest Jury, Head of SRR Technology Management Team.

“Samsung IT School is the additional education program, which has been developing in Russia since 2014. Students note the unique complexity and depth of the program, and 95% of graduates are ready to recommend it to their peers. This is a social project: education for schoolchildren is completely free and every year more than a thousand students from more than 50 Russian cities get the opportunity to grow in the field of mobile application development. In the next academic year, Samsung IT School will open several additional groups with distance learning. This will allow schoolchildren in the regions where it is not possible to attend in-person classes to take a training course online. From the heart I congratulate the winners of the contest and wish all participants further success!” said Sergey Pevnev, Vice President of Samsung Electronics CIS HQ.

Samsung IT School is a federal social educational program for the future IT specialists training, which is part of the Samsung Innovation Campus global initiative. Program was developed by SRR. Students are schoolchildren of grades 9-10. They receive knowledge and practical skills in mobile applications developing in Java for Android. During the existence of the program, about 5,000 graduates have been awarded company certificates. The course is free, designed for one academic year (132 academic hours): four academic hours of group lessons with a teacher per week. Classes are held in the additional education format. Projects of all graduates participate in the annual federal contest of mobile applications named «IT School chooses the strongest!». The graduate certificate and winner diploma gives students additional points when entering Russian universities.

Admission to Samsung IT School for the 2022/2023 academic year started on April 1. You can apply on the project website: https://innovationcampus.ru/