The contest’s main goal is to promote computer science among schoolers and gather children talented in the field so that they can share scientific and cultural experience. Each country is represented by teams of four, the only exception being the host country that can have an additional unofficial team. This year, 308 contestants from 80 countries participated in the contest, which has held in Kazan.
The contest went on for two days, on each day the contestants had do solve three algorithmic tasks. In the end, Russian team was 2nd in the standings, losing only to the Chinese. As for individual results, participants from China, Russia and the USA got three gold medals per team plus a silver one. Three Russian high schoolers got in the top 20 of the standings; coincidently, the same amount of IOI's prize winners became ITMO's students this year.
Mihail Putilin, having a score of 531 and being 4th in the world's standings got the gold medal. Stanislav Naumov got the silver, being 49th. Mihail Anoprenko, a student for Andrei Stankevich's club at ITMO University also got silver. Finally, Nodir Daminov got the bronze, being 127th.
Students, graduates and staff of ITMO University participated in organizing the event - according to Lidia Perovskaya, tutor for the Computer Technology Chair, representatives of ITMO worked as guides and members for the Scientific Committee from the host side. Pavel Mavrin, tutor for the Computer Technology Chair coordinated the development of tasks for the competition. Amongst the authors were also ITMO's graduates Artem Vasilyev, Nyaz Nigmatullin, Vitaly Aksenov and senior student Ilya Zban. ITMO's staff members Georgiy Korneev, Nikolai Vedernikov, Lidia Perovskaya and graduate Sergeiy Melnikov helped in technical organization.