April 2010
Infostroy is a sponsor of Infostroy Team at the Imagine Cup competition 2010, Poland – The World’s Premier Student Technology Competition. The Infostroy Team is from Kharkov, Ukraine, and consists of the students of the Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics, specializing in Informatics.
For this competition the Infostroy team has designed MyFlora game. MyFlora is an educational game for children of 6-12 years. It allows interactively introducing to children the process of agriculture and cities supply with foodstuff. Bright colorful episodes, ability to select plants to rear, plan cultivated area, pest control, harvesting involve a child into learning and perception of agriculture management process. All players get information not only about plants and their care rules (uploaded directly from Wikipedia), but they also get to know the geography and history of those countries, where they will grow their products.
Players can be situated in any place of the world, as information exchange between them will run through special web server. This helps MyFlora cover a wide range of children worldwide, achieving universal primary education goal. The winner of a game is player who manages to feed his/her city faster than others. Together players solve such an important problem as eradication of extreme hunger and poverty.
The Team are already the winners of the first round completion and have uploaded the latest version for the second tour.
March 2010
Infostroy sponsored the VI Kharkov Open Championship in collegiate programming “Kharkov Open” that took place on 14th of March, 2010. The Championship was held by Youth scientific society “Q-BIT” with the assistance of the leading institutions of higher education in Kharkov.
The main goal and objectives of the Championship is to popularize scientific knowledge, activate functioning of study groups, special courses, scientific communities, to create optimal and convenient conditions to expose talented and gifted youth, support their mentality and further professional orientation.
It’s not for the first time that Infostroy supports activities like this. For the reason, that it’s exactly these young people, who will join the ranks of companies in IT industry in a few years.