The VSU team “Porvannaya Shlyapa” (“Torn Hat”) took second place at the “Started” hackathon. During the event, the participants had to program the VOSTOK UNO board on a domestic microprocessor. The team consisted of Nikita Evstigneev, a first-year student from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics of VSU, Vsevolod Voldaev, an eighth form schoolboy, Dmitry Gordienko, a first-year student from the Faculty of Physics of VSU who captained the team, and Vladislav Volkodavov, a first-year student from the Faculty of Physics. All in all, three teams participated in the forum in person, and two more teams took part in the event online.
The hackathon is a forum for developers, during which specialists from different areas of software development (programmers, designers, managers) have to jointly solve a problem against the clock.