Belarusian team has won four bronze medals at the 36th International Olympiad in Informatics.

The prestigious competition was hosted by Alexandria, Egypt. This year, 370 participants from 94 countries took on the tasks. Every challenge was at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport.

This time all four members of the Belarusian team won bronze medals, and they are: Michael Brel (Middle school № 27), Cyril Kardash (Middle school №8) and graduates Dmitry Gorbatovski (gymnasium № 51 of Gomel) and Andrei Sobolenko (gymnasium №8 of Vitebsk).

Team captains were: Senior Lecturer of the Department of Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of BSU Alexander Buslavsky and teacher of additional education of the Center for Young Firefighters of Mozyr Alexey Borunov.

Note, a graduate of the Vitebsk gymnasium Andrey Sobolenko was a ward of the Honored Teacher of Belarus Veronika Laktina. She has 24 years of experience and helped him believe in himself and become one of the best young programmers in our country. Now Andrey Sobolenko is studying at the specialized faculty of BSU.

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The International Olympiad in Informatics is one of several international science Olympiads held annually around the world. Exceptional high school students from various countries compete in the prestigious algorithmic competition to sharpen their informatics skills—such as problem analysis, design of algorithms and data structures, programming, and testing.

Each participating country selects a team of up to four contestants to represent their nation. The team, accompanied by a team leader and deputy leader, will compete in a two-day competition. Each contestant competes individually to maximize their score by solving three algorithmic problems within five hours.