Kazakhstani students became finalists in the global Huawei competition

A team of Kazakhstani students has qualified for the regional final of the international educational competition Huawei ICT Competition.

The competition is held annually and aims to support talented students from around the world, as well as to stimulate educational, scientific, and applied activities in the field of ICT.

In Kazakhstan, the preliminary round for participation in the ICT Competition took place in two stages from September to October 2023 and involved 33 leading universities and Huawei ICT Academies. Over 2,000 students participated in the preliminary stage, testing their knowledge in three tracks: Network track, Cloud track, and Computing track. As a result, 152 students who demonstrated the best results advanced to the national final.

Six winners of the national final will represent Kazakhstan in the regional final. Two Kazakhstani teams will compete with the world's top students in the Cloud Track and Computing Track. If they successfully pass this round, they will have the opportunity to participate in the global final of the competition.

Students from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Didar Moldakhetov and Aida Begaidarova, as well as KBTU student Gaukhar Zhanal, participated in the Cloud Track. The Computing Track will feature a team consisting of Oralbay Utebay from Sh. Yessenov Caspian State University of Technology and Engineering, Daniyar Sarsenbai from KBTU, and Nikolay Zhilyakov from G. Dauletkhov Astana University of Energy and Electronics.

Source: gov.kz