The final stage of the XVI Eurasian Olympiad in Informatics for schoolchildren was completed at IITU. More than 230 schoolchildren from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan took part in the event. The participation of 77 teams from Central Asia testifies to the high interest of the region's youth in the development of information technologies.
The main goal of the Olympiad is to develop information literacy among schoolchildren, identify talented young people in the fields of computational sciences, computer modeling and information technologies.
According to the results of the Olympiad 21 participants were awarded diplomas of I degree and gold medals of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 39 winners received diplomas of II degree and silver medals, and 54 participants received diplomas of III degree and bronze medals.
