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INRTU Students Win National IT Academy Hack 2024 Hosted by Samsung

INRTU Dr op Table Teams won the interuniversity hackathon IT Academy Hack 2024: “Scientific Volunteering + Ecology”. The intellectual tournament by Samsung took place at the Irkutsk State University in late April.

It should be noted that the hackathon is part of the Samsung Innovation Campus educational project, which allows to receive training in IT, improve industry knowledge and skills. The tournament was held at in-person venues in Moscow, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Kursk.

Over 120 students fr om 10 universities joined the event. During two days, the participants had to develop prototypes of an environmental monitoring platform to assess and analyze the state of the environment.

Participants were evaluated by an expert committee, which included Samsung representatives, teachers of Samsung Innovation Campus educational tracks, and industrialists. Three winners were selected at each site.

In Irkutsk, Pavel Naumov, Egor Klimchik and Yaroslav Polyakov of Dr op Table Teams were the leaders. Ilya Dubrovin, Daniil Mikhailov, Sergey Alkhimov and Anton Levin from INRTU took the third place.

Dr op Table Teams members presented the mobile app "Listening to Silence". With its help the user can get data on the sound environment for urban planning and environmental studies. The students' idea was also highly appreciated at the national level, wh ere they won third place in the Samsung Choice nomination.

According to Pavel Naumov, the app was created for the Android operating system:

“When implementing the software product, we paid special attention to the development of a high-quality and accessible interface. “Listening to Silence” is an excellent example of how IT technologies can improve the environmental situation.”

Vadim Arshinsky, head of the Software Engineering Center of INRTU and the mobile development track of Samsung IT Academy, supervised the teams at the hackathon here.

“Three teams from INRTU were announced in total. Our first year students Mikhail Kanischev and Nikita Semenov demonstrated excellent skills at the tournament. Participants of the interdisciplinary hackathon need knowledge in various IT directions. For example, this year's competencies in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things came in handy for the contestants,” notes the head of the Software Engineering Center."

Vadim Arshinsky added that the INRTU students' "flexible" skills helped them to perform well at the tournament:

“Experts highly praised the decisions of our guys who prepared competent project justifications, identified the target audience and analyzed the market. These competencies were acquired by the students at the Digital Department opened under the Priority 2030 Program.”

The winners of the hackathon were awarded diplomas and memorable prizes from Samsung.

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The Samsung IT Academy program has been implemented since 2017 as part of the global Samsung Innovation Campus initiative - a long-term free social and educational project by Samsung Electronics to train future specialists in the most in-demand areas of IT: artificial intelligence, internet of things, mobile development, and big data.

INRTU is an official partner of the Samsung IT Academy project. Three tracks of the program are being implemented at the university site: "Mobile development on Kotlin", "Internet of Things" and "Artificial Intelligence".