Belarusian school students guided by BSU lecturer win awards at International Olympiad in Informatics

Belarusian school students, under the leadership of a BSU lecturer, have won four medals at the 38th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2026). Kirill Kardash, a 10th-grade student from Secondary School No. 8 in Gomel, became a gold medalist. Fedor Soshko, a student at the BSU Lyceum named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, was awarded a silver medal. The bronze medals went to Mikhail Brel from Gomel Secondary School No. 27 and Gennady Martsinkevich from Gomel Secondary School No. 11.

The team leaders were Aleksandr Buslavsky, a senior lecturer at the Department of Discrete Mathematics and Algorithmics of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at BSU, and Aleksey Borunov, an educator in additional education at the Young Firefighters Club in Mozyr.

This major intellectual competition is currently taking place from August 9 to 16 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In total, more than 370 participants from 97 countries are taking part in the Olympiad this year. As part of the competition, contestants had to complete two rounds, with five hours allocated for each. They were required to solve a total of six algorithmic problems using the C++ programming language.