NFACTORIAL CHALLENGE: AND THE WINNERS ARE…

The IT competiton started on 21 January in Almaty, and ended on February 11 in the capital of Kazakhstan – Astana. The jury of the competition was attended by Kairat Akhmetov (Open Technologies Group), Rashid Dyussembayev (Mega Startup Lab), Rakhim Oshakbayev (Center for Applied Research “Talap”), Yernur Ismagambetov (Academy of IFCA), Kairat only after (National Laboratory Astana), Alexander Sokolov (Flip.kz), Alexander Bondarenko (Wooppay), among others. Nursultan Askarbekuly, Bauyrzhan Orynbassar and Saken Sydykov won this competition. As a prize all three of them will receive a grant of the Foundation for the completion of the 3-month internships in Silicon Valley, USA in the best incubator in the world. The boys will learn programming and mobile applications.

– The contest is a valuable asset for any programmer and it was difficult to select the best. I am glad that the competition was attended by school students who, even with a little knowledge and experience represented quite decent ideas. I was reassured again that the most important wealth of Kazakhstan is the human capital. Such contests, I hope, will finally lead Kazakhstan to obtaining a good platform for the development of IT industry, – shared his impressions of the competition Nursultan Nurmukhanov, program coordinator from Shakhmardan Yessenov Foundation, who participated in the jury.

Let’s tell you few words about the winners. Nursultan 25, he is from Astana, he has a bachelor degree at the University of Edinburgh and a work experience in companies including KazPost. He is the author of Joode app for learning Arabic alphabet, which is available in the AppStore. 24-year-old Almaty inhabitant Baurzhan Orynbasar – a designer, a graduate of the International IT University and the author of the app, which people helps to instill habits of a healthy lifestyle.

The third winner, also from Almaty – Saken Sydykov, he is 23. Saken graduated from the Republican school of physics and mathematics, he developes apps for Android and won in the Techgarden (2015) and Hackday (2016). He enjoys basketball, playing musical instruments, and works as the programmer for the Department of Innovative Projects of the Kazakh-British Technical University.