The championship became a significant event for all participants and helped identify talented programmers, develop their skills and stimulate interest in the IT field.

Irina Balabayeva, the Executive Director of the Championship, spoke about how the Championship went:

"This year, more than 450 participants from almost 30 Russian regions have registered for the largest programming and modern information technology forum in Southern Russia. After the

online stage, the best programmers came to the Southern Federal University for face-to-face competitions. The set of tasks for each tournament included tasks of varying complexity that required participants not only to have deep knowledge of programming, but also to be creative, logical, and able to work in a limited time environment.

This year, the ContestSFedU Championship was held as part of the program of events of the Center for Training Researchers and Developers in the field of artificial intelligence, and the Schoolchildren's Tournament has been included in the List of Olympiads of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation in the field of computer science for several years.

The sponsors, the leading IT companies in the region, who are long-standing and reliable partners of ICTIS and support all such events, provided great assistance in organizing and preparing the Championship.: BETA IR, Software Technologies, Lachestry, Monitor Electrician. Thanks to them, the winners and prize-winners of the competitions went home not only with diplomas, good memories and contacts of new friends, but also with useful gifts.

This year's Championship has become a benefit for the Rostov participants: for the first time, schoolchildren from Rostov-on-Don became winners in the Schoolchildren's Tournament and the Team Tournament, and a master's student from the Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences took the lead in the Individual Tournament of SFedU students."

Results of the Personal tournament among SFedU students:

1st place – Alexander Ivanov (Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences, 1st year)

2nd place – Ivan Trukhlov (Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences, 4th year)

3rd place – Velimir Vivchari (ICTIS, 1st year).

Results of the Schoolchildren's Tournament:

The winners:

1st place – Artyom Andreev (Rostov-on-Don, Specialized Educational and Scientific Center Southern Federal District, 11th grade)

2nd place – Ilya Abramov (Rostov-on-Don, Specialized Educational and Scientific Center Southern Federal District, 10th grade)

3rd place – Andrey Shevtsov (Rostov-on-Don, Specialized Educational and Scientific Center Southern Federal District, 11th grade/ANO "AlgoNova").

Results of the Team tournament:

The winners:

1st place - AlgoNova #1 (Andreev, Aloyan, Orlov), Rostov-on-Don

2nd place - SSU #3 (Kirnosov, Rodin, Potapkina), Saratov

3rd place - VSU #1 (Shulzhenko, Edryshov, Rogachev), Voronezh.

The best SFU team – Institute of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences SFedU #2 (Trukhlov, Chizhov, Batalshchikov), Rostov-on-Don – took 15th place in the overall standings.

Learn more about the results of the ContestSFedU-2026 Championship on the website http://www.contestsfedu.org/

For full interviews with the participants and prize-winners of the competition and photo albums, see the Championship's VK page: https://vk.com/contestsfedu