From November 24 to December 2 Saint-Petersburg hold the 5th all-Russian competition of high schoolers and the 29th semi-final of the world championship on student programming. Company MERLION supported competitions of young Russian programmers.
On December 2 the 7th International youth week of informatics and programming has finished in the Anichkov Palace of Saint-Petersburg. More than 800 the more talented schoolers and students of Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (110 teams of schoolers and 172 student teams) competed for titles of the best programmer teams.
Company MERLION, the leading Russian distributor of computer equipment, was the general sponsor of all-Russian competition of high schoolers and the sponsor of students competitions.
Commenting on the decision taken on support of competitions, the president of the company MERLION Alexei Sonk noted that: "Taking the most active participation in the development of the national computer market, we are interested in the further dynamic development of the higher technology industry which is impossible without investments and competitions of this kind. For this reason company MERLION, the leading Russian IT distributor has sponsored of the most large-scale on the territory of the former USSR creative competitions of students and schoolers in the area of programming and computer technologies. I am sure that due to our young computer stars the credibility
Of the country will improved on the international level, and in the XXI-th century Russia will come up in the world among the most strong, economically progressive and powerful states".
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