Students won 600 thousand rubles at a hackathon in Yekaterinburg

A hackathon for IT specialists as part of the Impulse T1 conference has ended in Yekaterinburg.

More than 270 students from all over the country took part in the competition. The event became part of a series of hackathons in five cities and was held with the support of 70 mentors and experts from different companies: T1, Rostelecom, X5 Tech, Innopolis University and others. The total prize fund of the hackathon series is 3.8 million rubles. In Yekaterinburg, the winning teams shared 600 thousand rubles.

Hackathon participants worked on two cases. One of them was dedicated to creating a tool that automates the visualization and troubleshooting of infrastructure deployment and use. The second case concerned information security and posed an unusual task for the teams – to act as hackers. Students had to understand the logic of the web application’s security system and, based on it, create algorithms for masking malicious requests.

Students from UrFU (Evgeny Solovyov, Arseny Furman and Danil Pichugin) won in solving the first case. In second place was a team also consisting of students from the Ural Federal University (Dmitry Gryaznov, Kristina Gryaznova, Kirill Borshov, Ravil Kamaliev and Alexander Stikhin). Third place was taken by students from MIREA and MGMSU (Stanislav Vinokur, Evgeniy Vinokur and Vilena Chernysheva).

The best solution for the second case was presented by students from Ulyanovsk State Technical University (Lev Elatomtsev, Pavel Grigoriev, Dmitry Kuznetsov) and Innopolis University (Sergey Knyazkin, Aidar Miftakhov). The second place was won by the team from ChelSU: Alexander Maksimov, Evgeniy Popov, Igor Kolebin. Third place was taken by students from UrFU: Kirill Chibirev, Andrey Dremkov, Maxim Pasynkov, Alexey Kourov.

“Impulse T1” is a series of annual industry conferences organized by the T1 IT holding. Hackathons have become an important part of the forum and a platform for exchanging experiences and finding innovative solutions. The total prize fund for hackathons is about 4 million rubles.