Matanzas Represented in First International Informatics Olympiad.
With two students from the Vocacional Pre University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE) Carlos Marx, Matanzas ensured its representation in the final phase of the first International Olympiad of Information Technology (ICT), held recently in Russia and where the Cuban delegation won fourth place.
Ronelvis Fuentes Sánchez, a tenth grader at the Yumurina educational institution, and Reynier García Montes de Oca, who graduated from the 12th grade this year, were part of the youth team of the Greater of the Antilles, made up of talented students from several provinces, mostly from pre-university and polytechnic schools of Informatics.
According to what was published by the Union of Computer Scientists of Cuba on its Facebook page, one of the teams that participated in the last competitive round, made up of students from several IPVCE of the country, including the Matanzas teenager Ronelvis Fuentes, achieved special mention in the event, which was dedicated to topics such as cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence and where a total of 20 nations and 2,700 contestants participated.
The Cuban Union of Computer Scientists was part of the organizing committee of the event, held in the Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod, with the presence of delegations from the Brics countries.
In this first International ICT Olympiad, which took place from the Cuban-Russian collaboration and was developed in stages, the Caribbean nation participated with a total of 150 students in the individual classification round held last April, then came the team classification phase, both from the virtual format, while from May 30th to June 3rd the final competition was held in person.
The event’s program included a Global Digital Forum, held on June 5-6 in the host city, an unprecedented meeting between the Russian IT sector and its partners from the global South and East.
Cuba had the largest foreign delegation at the conclave, with a very intense and productive agenda aimed at enhancing information security and digital sovereignty in the country. In fact, the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between the Telephony and Communications Company ETECSA and the Russian company Rostelecom Solar, a leader in cybersecurity services, was not long in coming.
Written by Yovana Baró
