On December 8, the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ and Rostelecom tallied up the results of the sixth national online championship Explore the Internet & Govern It! About 14,000 school students registered for the event, of whom more than 4,000 played in 634 school teams from all across Russia.
Competitors had only one hour to do assignments of varying difficulty. This year, the theme was the Internet of Things (IoT) – concepts, architecture, protocols of interaction and security of the technology. To improve their performance, participants could complete additional tasks – either prepare an analytical article on internet industry trends or conduct a local internet literacy competition in their school.
A strong incentive to win were the prizes, practical both in studies and everyday life. Competitors coming in first place will receive an ASUS Transformer Book laptop, silver winners will enjoy a Samsung Galaxy J3 smartphone and holders of the bronze will be inseparable from their favorite music with their new fashionable JBL Go Bluetooth speaker.
The championship traditionally included individual and team stages.
The gold winner in the individual event is Mikhail Pavlov, a third-grader from Moscow. The runner-up is Ilya Nikulchikov from Peterhof. In third place is Irina Mironova from Cheboksary.
Leader in the team event is Elza Mustafina’s team Terrabyte representing school No. 1 in the village of Kirgiz-Miyaki, the Republic of Bashkortostan. Runner-up is the team GoldBrowser led by Ivan Vorobyev, a teacher at gymnasium No. 14 in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. The bronze was won by Ilnaz Gibadullin’s team Sanak from Nizhniye Meteski secondary school in the Republic of Tatarstan.
All the participants and captains can print a personalized certificate of the sixth national online championship Explore the Internet & Govern It! from their website account.
The organizers congratulate the winners and thank the participants in the 2017 championship for their interest in information technologies.
Explore the Internet & Govern It! is an educational project for school students implemented since 2012 by the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ and Rostelecom. The goal is to improve digital literacy and the quality of use of information technologies by beginner internet users. The core of the project is the educational website игра-интернет.рф, which introduces different aspects of internet technologies in the form of games. The game Explore the Internet & Govern It! is also available as a mobile app and a quiz. The project annually includes an online championship involving thousands of school students from all across the country.
