Global IT Olympiad for school students
View(s):The Education Ministry has issued a letter saying that the school students of Russia and other countries aged 14 to 18, regardless of experience and knowledge in programming, are invited to take part in the Global IT Olympiad.
Participation in the Olympiad will help enhance knowledge in machine learning and artificial intelligence, cyber security, cryptography, forensics, reverse engineering, vulnerability exploitation, algorithmic programming. Challenges and learning materials reflect current trends in artificial intelligence and cyber security.
The Olympiad is organised by the Government of Nizhny Novgorod Region and international partner of the Olympiad – the Union of Informatics of the Republic of Cuba.
The general partner of the event is Sberbank, and the technology partner is Algorithmics Intemational School of Programming and Mathematics. The IT Olympiad is part of the activities of the world-class NEIMARK Inter-University IT Campus.
The key selection criteria required of a participant is that they should not be younger than 14 or older than 18 years old on the starting date of Stage 1 of the Olympiad, and must be a student of a comprehensive school.
The Olympiad will take the form of Capture the Flag cyber security competitions. Participants will have to solve various cyber security challenges to find a flag – a special text string that confirms they have successfully completed a task. Such competitions help develop practical skills in cyber security, identify vulnerabilities and ways to fix them. These competitions are popular among school and university students, professionals, and companies specialising in data protection.
Participants are welcome to try their hand at challenges in
Artificial Intelligence – such as data processing and analysis, generation of simple ML models.
Cryptography – message decryption, analysis of encryption algorithms, encryption breaking.
Forensics – examining memory dump, data recovery, analysis of deleted files.
Web Security – identification and exploitation of vulnerabilities (SQL injections, XSS file upload attacks).
Reverse Engineering – binary file analysis, program logic recovery, decompilation.
Basics of Programming and Algorithm Development – development of algorithms. code logic, optimization of solutions.
Mathematical Logic – parsing of logical expressions, handling of combinatorics and numbers.
The Global IT Olympiad consists of three stages: individual qualifications (online), team qualifications (online), and the finals (in-person).
The deadline for registration for the Olympiad would take place March 5 to April 10.
Upon completion of the registration form, all participants will be offered tests to check the level of their knowledge in IT. An e-certificate will be awarded to participants according to the test results.
Online individual qualifications would be held from April 2 to April 15. Participants can set the challenge deadline that works best for them. At the first stage, participants will be given 15 exercises which are divided into three complexity levels (basic, medium, advanced) and cover key aspects of cyber security, including both theoretical and practical challenges in information security, mathematical logic, basics of programming and algorithm development, artificial intelligence, including data analysis, text processing, generation of simple models.
Capture The Flag online team contest would be held from April 21 to April 25. The teams for the Olympiad will consist of five participants. They will be chosen from the best performers in Stage 1.
During the CTF contests, challenges will cover AI and machine learning, cryptanalysis, reverse engineering, web vulnerabilities, forensics, and algorithmic programming. Based on the results of the individual and team qualifications, the top teams (100 people) will be selected based on their total scores. These teams will be invited to the finals of the Olympiad.
In-person finals: will take place from May 30 to June 3, at School No. 21 Nizhny Novgorod. The Olympiad winners’ award ceremony will take place during the Digitalization of Industrial Russia conference (CIPR. 2025) in Nizhny Novgorod.
Website: https://goit.space
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