VITEBSK, 28 February (BelTA) – Artur Petukhovsky from Vitebsk has won the Innopolis Open Olympiad in Informatics for Secondary School Students, BelTA learned from the administration of Gymnasium No.8 of Vitebsk.
The international competition was held at two venues, Innopolis University (Russia) and STEP IT Academy (Minsk) last weekend. Schoolchildren from twelve countries and 21 regions of Russia met in the final stage of the competition. Artur Petukhovsky, an 11th grade student of Gymnasium No.8 of Vitebsk topped the list of seven winners scoring the highest number of points overall. He received 100/100 in four out of five tasks.
Apart from the seven winners who got first-degree diplomas, eighteen participants were honored with second-degree prizes, and another 33 with third-degree diplomas. Andrei Berlin and Mark Korneichik from Vitebsk were among those who clinched bronze. The winners list includes schoolchildren from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, South Korea, Kazakhstan and Hungary. They were offered admission to Russian universities without entrance tests.
Artur Petukhovsky, Andrei Berlin and Mark Korneichik are students of Veronika Laktina who has already trained five winners of international competitions and 67 winners of the final stage of the national competition in informatics. This year she has been honored with a medal For Labor Merits.
