On October 5, 2019, KhAI hosted the Third Khai-IT Cup, an information technology championship for high school students. The participants of the championship performed the tasks of four IT departments of the university (302 – Computer Science and Information Technology, 304 – Mathematical Modeling and Artificial Intelligence, 503 – Computer Systems, Networks and Cybersecurity, 603 – Software Engineering) in the fight for our prizes and the main prize – the Cup! The Championship was attended by 126 students from 40 schools in Kharkiv. We are grateful to each of the participants of our championship, as well as to the representatives of the schools for their interest and well-prepared students!

The winner of the cup was Dmitry Kazakov, a 10th grade student of gymnasium №83!

Congratulations to all the guys who showed good results and won prizes!

2nd place
Dmytro Kudriavtsev, gymnasium №55, 11th grade
Momot Oleg, educational complex №45, 9th grade
Litovka Danylo, gymnasium №55, grade 11
3rd place
Kubarev Ilya, gymnasium №55, grade 11
Oliynyk Yevhen, school №16, 11th grade
Zaichenko Kirill, school №16, 11th grade
4th place
Budnik Maksym, school №16, 11th grade
Vinnytskyi Max, lyceum №89, 11th grade
Mykhailo Leiba, Technological Lyceum №9, 11th grade

We would like to thank the administration and teachers of gymnasium №55, school №158, school №16, school №164 and others for their active participation!

We are grateful to the university management for holding the Championship, to all the organizers – the IT departments of KhAI and sponsors – the leading IT companies of Kharkiv – Sigma Software, NIX Solutions, Softserve, Epam and others!

Thank you for your support, greetings and interesting speeches: Konstantin Onishchenko – Training manager of Nix Solutions, Andrey Somov – Training manager of Sigma Software Group, Vyacheslav Laptev – manager of educational programs at Softserve, Gleb Pavlyuk – Systems Engineer at Epam.

As part of our event, students and graduates of our departments who work in various IT companies in Kharkiv made presentations: – Denys Belov, Daryna Poltavska, Anastasiia Syshchuk, graduates of the Department 603, – graduates of the Department 302 – Yulia Gromova, Stanislav Shelekhov, – students of the Department 503 – Artem Ganzha, Stanislav Taran. Thanks to the guys for their interesting speeches, stories about their career experience in IT, life hacks and advice to future IT professionals!

Special thanks to the volunteers among the students of our university who created a hospitable and warm atmosphere of the championship and the holiday!