The winners of the Samsung IT School contest will receive additional points when entering leading universities

According to the order of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the «IT School chooses the strongest!» contest of the Samsung IT School social and educational project was included in the «List of Olympiads and other intellectual and (or) creative contests, activities aimed at the development of intellectual and creative abilities» for 2022/23 school year.

Thanks to the inclusion in the official List of the Olympiads, which Samsung IT School is awarded for three years in a row, the contest winners will be able to receive additional points when entering Russian universities, which take into account the activities of the Ministry of Education List or specifically the Samsung IT School contest. Detailed information about scoring is available in the «Accounting of points for individual achievements for entrants» section in the Rules of admission on the official website of the educational institution, as well as on the «Individual achievements points» on the Samsung IT School official site.

In 2022, 642 schoolchildren graduated of Samsung IT School. 19% of them mastered the program on excellent mark. The program operated at 55 sites throughout Russia: from Kaliningrad to the Far East. During the year, each student mastered five modules of the program and developed an individual project on the Android in Java.

About 90% of the Samsung IT School graduates choose IT-field in higher education institutions to continue their professional training. Therefore, the annual inclusion of the School contest in the official List of the Ministry is not only the recognition of the high level of our contest, but also an additional advantage for our students when entering universities», — said Sergey Pevnev, the vice-president of the Samsung Electronics CIS headquarters.

Contest «IT School chooses the strongest! contest is held since 2015. The event is a key graduation contest of Samsung IT School, all certified graduates of is annually participate in the contest. Its task is to create your own mobile application. The contest is held in three categories: «Social application», «Game application», «Programming». The jury consists of specialists of the Samsung R&D Institute Russia, teachers, Samsung IT School graduates and developers from large Russian IT companies.

This year, 19 best schoolchildren projects went to the final of the contest. These schoolchildren were from 7 cities: Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Khabarovsk. Winners of the Grand Prix of the contest became Anton Vorobyov and Dmitry Ledokhovich from Moscow with an application for the umbrella sharing system, which they developed under the guidance of teacher Fedor Sedov at the technopark «Altair» in RTU MIREA. The prototype service allows the user to read the barcode and retrieve the umbrella and then return it to another repository.

Samsung IT School is federal social and educational program to prepare future IT professionals, which is a part of the Samsung Innovation Campus global initiative. The program started in 2014 and is aimed at obtaining theoretical and practical skills in the programming by schoolchildren of 9-10 classes, who have a tendency to algorithmic thinking, IT-technology enthusiasts and those who have a stable knowledge of the school course in computer science and mathematics. Students of the program study the development of mobile applications from idea to distribution in the Java for the Android. Schoolchildren chose a future profession and realize themselves in the information technology — a key direction of development of the country’s economy.

Every year more than 1000 students from more than 50 cities of Russia get the opportunity to raise in the mobile development. Next school year Samsung IT School will open several additional groups with distance learning. This will allow schoolchildren in regions where there is no opportunity to attend classes in full-time mode, to pass a training course online.