SECOND ROUND OF PROGRAMMING CONTEST OF YOUNG SPECIALISTS HELD IN
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, August 9. /ARKA/. The second round of the programming contest
of young specialists was held in Yerevan, Director of the “Enterprises
Incubator” Foundation (EIF) Bagrat Yengibaryan told journalists. He
said that the most participants are the students, but the pupils also
participate in this contest. He reported that 200 participants
registered this year, including participants from Georgia and
Russia. The winners of the 1st round went to the Summer School in
Karabakh, where they were trained by the lecturers of the Yerevan
universities and higher educational institutions. 10 teams, each
including three members were formed after the training. Award ceremony
of the winners is expected to be held on August 10, 2005.

Yengibaryan said that popularity of the contest is accounted for by
the continuous growing interest to IT technologies in Armenia.

The contest is organized by the EIF, Pan-Armenian Youth International
Center and the Union of the IT Enterprises of Armenia (UITE). The
contest is sponsored by Synopsys, Unicomp and CIT companies, which
have provided additional awards for the participants.

This is the 3rd contest of young people interested in programming. The
first contest was held in Yerevan in 2002. A.A. -0–