Free International Programming Olympiad “BalaTech” calls for 50,000 school students from Russian-speaking countries to learn programming with gaming and to compete for prizes
UNDP Accelerator Lab in the Kyrgyz Republic in partnership with a multilingual educational platform for children and youngsters to learn programming in an interactive way ‘BalaTech’ will organize the annual International Programming Olympiad in the wider Eastern Europe and Central Asia region.
The competition will be held on 19 February 2022 in an online format and will bring together around 50,000 school students from grades 5 to 11 in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and other Russian-speaking countries.
Free learning content to get ready for the Olympiad includes 10 learning modules with 175 general tasks and 137 additional difficulty tasks.
Age groups will be categorized as follows:
- Junior group from grade 5 to 7 grades,
- Middle group from grade 8 to 9,
- Senior group from grade 10 to 11.
The winners will be awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes in each age groups for an overall prize fund worth $ 10,000 USD in the form of laptops, smartphones, and certificates of top universities.
If you wish to take part in the Olympiad, register now on www.balatech.org before 18 February 2022.