1ST ROUND OF THE COMPETITION AMONG ARMENIAN YOUNG COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS HELD IN YEREVAN

YEREVAN, July 26. /ARKA/. 1st round of the competition among young Armenian computer programmers was held Tuesday in Yerevan. According to the head of the competition Arman Valesyan, young persons at age up to 30 skilled at C++ and JAVA are eligible to take part in the contest. The contest consists of two rounds – individual and team. Valesyan said 200 young persons, including those from Russia and Georgia were registered for participation in the contest. In his words, 30first-round winners will be sent to Karabakh for training, after which ten three-member teams will be composed for participation in the second round scheduled for August 9. Awarding ceremony is to be held on August 10.

According to Valesyan, $600, $300 and $200 awards will be handed to the winners in individual race and $1200, $900 and $600 in team contest.

The competition is organized by Enterprises Incubator Foundation, Pan-Armenian Youth International Center and UITE.

Synopsys, Unicomp and CIT are sponsors of the competition. They provide additional prizes. This is the third competition among young computer programmers. The first one was conducted in 2002 in Yerevan. M.V. -0–