HSE University Life

Evgenia Okopnaya, a first year student in Applied Mathematics and Information Science at HSE, together with her peers, Aliya Khasanova and Diana Zagidullina, recently participated in the START Hack Hackathon at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. START Hack is a programing competition which attracts over 350 students, young entrepreneurs and programmers annually. Participants try to solve tasks set by big companies. Evgenia Okopnaya shared her impressions of the event.

The Microsoft Hackschool for students was held in Moscow on October 14-15. Microsoft experts and Microsoft partner students helped identify the best projects during the event that could change students’ lives.

A conference and hackathon was organized by the MSU Business Incubator and QIWI group, focusing on technologies and products that change traditional business models and leave unnecessary mediators behind.

Students of HSE Faculty of Computer Science won the first Russian Hackathon by AccorHotels and got the opportunity to finalize their project together with experts from the international accelerator NUMA Moscow and then present it to the company’s higher management in Paris.

SAS in cooperation with HSE has organized and hosted Russia's first hackathon for advanced analytics SAS – an IT marathon that lets students and young specialists try their hand in solving topical analytical cases in the banking sphere.