Tehnostart-2016 Student IT Project Championship

If you are a student of MSU, MIPT or Bauman Moscow State Technical University, then we invite you to take part in the annual Tehnostart championship. For this, it is not even necessary to be able to program or develop software. The main thing is to gather a team of like-minded people and to realize their ideas of IT projects within the framework of the championship.



The essence of the championship is that the participants unite in teams and develop ideas for IT services and products. If the expert board approves the proposed idea, the team will implement it. The peculiarity of the championship is that you can try yourself in a variety of roles at the Tehnostart site: developer, designer, product manager, marketer, etc. So you can make a significant contribution to the creation of an IT project without writing a single line of code.



This Technostart is the third. At the first championship in 2014, 36 ideas were presented, of which six were embodied. In 2015, participants proposed 89 ideas, and implemented nine. The number of users of the Technostart platform has exceeded 2,000.

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The partner of the championship this year was the international accelerator NUMA Moscow. Participants will be able to attend his educational program and weekly meetings with mentors. And experts Mail.Ru Group will help in solving any issues related to the development.



Registration of participants and formation of teams is already underway. Then the participants will vote for the five most interesting projects, the authors of which will automatically enter the next round. The board of experts will select another 25 projects. At the end of June, the best ideas will be defended at the Mail.Ru Group office, and 12 projects will be selected for further implementation.



In the fall, teams will present finished products at the championship finals. The best of them will receive grants for 400 thousand rubles from the Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere. The main prize is acceleration from NUMA Moscow, which includes further business support and a team trip to Paris to present the project to international investors.



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The Technostart Championship is one of the Mail.Ru Group initiatives aimed at the development of the Russian IT industry and integrated with the IT.Mail.Ru resource. This year it is held for the third time. The number of participants and implemented projects is growing. So, in 2014, 36 ideas were presented to the experts on court, six of which were implemented. In 2015, 89 ideas were announced, nine of them were implemented. The number of users of the platform exceeded 2000 people.



The IT.Mail.Ru platform is designed for those who are keen on IT and are seeking to develop professionally in this area. The project combines the championships of the Russian AI Cup, the Russian Code Cup and the Russian Developers Cup, educational projects Technopark in MSTU. Bauman, Technosphere at Moscow State University. Mv Lomonosov and Tehnotrek MIPT. In addition, using IT.Mail.Ru, you can use tests to test your knowledge of popular programming languages, learn important news from the IT world, visit or watch broadcasts from specialized events and lectures on IT topics.