YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. An open programming contest will be held in Yerevan and in the marzes of Shirak, Lori and Syunik, from September 15 to October 5. The Enterprise Incubator Foundation, PanArmenian Youth International Center, UN Development Programme office and Competitive Armenian Private Sector office initiated the contest. According to the organizers, the main goal of the contest is to find the best young specialists at the age of 18-30, knowing C++ and Java programming languages. The contest will be held at 3 stages: electoral, individual and team. During the electoral stage, the participants must solve the given 5 tasks during 3 hours. The choice will be made at the individual stage by the principal of floating quota, after what 30 young people recognized the winners at that stage will participate in programming courses in Tsaghkadzor. They will be divided into 10 teams at the team stage to be held in Yerevan. The winning team will get monetary prize of 2 mln drams (about 5000 U.S. dollars). The contest sponsors are the Synopsys, Virage Logic and Antares companies.

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