The final and the results of Technostart 2015

On October 17, in the office of the Mail.Ru Group, the finals of the IT-projects student project Tekhnostart took place. This is a championship for students of MSTU. N. E. Bauman and Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov, eager to create their own project in the field of IT. This year the championship was held for the second time, the filing of applications began in the spring. Students laid out their ideas on the championship portal and formed teams to implement their projects. Later, a number of master classes, project development trainings were held for the teams, as well as meetings with the experts of Mail.Ru Group, Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and the MSU Business Incubator. Of the 90 ideas submitted, 9 teams successfully reached the final and implemented their first prototypes.

During the finals at the Mail.Ru Group office, all the guests had the opportunity to personally communicate with the participants of the championship, learn more about the projects, test the prototypes. Listen to live music with Jammium and Clap music projects.


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Feel like in a museum with Artera audio guides.



Learn how to program robots with the Robonarius project.



Compete in writing strategies for bots on the I / O Strategy platform.



Collect ethyl alcohol in the multiplayer physicochemical game NOCH.



And also to cuddle the main character - a member of the team of the Technoclot team - Harry Maine Coon.



The organizers prepared pleasant surprises for the audience: a tour of the office, a lottery and Tehnostart t-shirts for everyone who guessed the winner.



The main prize - the championship cup and a trip to Helsinki on Startup Sauna - was won by the Tehnokot team, which invented a fitness tracker for pets. Project site: tehnokot.hochu-tak.rf .





The honorable second place is Robonarius, a platform for learning robotics: http://dev.robonarius.com . The third is I / O Strategy, an automated strategy testing system for games with a field: http://iostrategy.ru .

Without exception, all finalists were awarded grants for 400,000 rubles under the “Umnik” program of the Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Small Business Entities in the Scientific and Technical Sphere, which, undoubtedly, was greatly supported by talented children.



The special prize, a meeting with Mail.Ru Group CEO Dmitry Grishin, was won by the Robonarius team.



Special prize from the MSU Business Incubator and from DevsGo: a multiplayer chemical game NOCH.



Technostart provided an opportunity for students to translate their ideas, to try themselves in roles that they are interested in: team leader, developer, manager, designer. And also get support from experts of the largest IT-companies in Russia. In 2016, the championship will cover three universities: MSTU. N. E. Bauman, Moscow State University and MIPT.