Samsung Electronics Allows Middle School Students to Participate in University Student Programming Contest
Published2016.01.15 18:28
Revitalizing the software industry and discovering competent university student software developers
Samsung Electronics held the finals of the '1st Samsung Collegiate Programming Cup' (hereinafter 'SCPC').
The SCPC competition is an event planned by Samsung Electronics to revitalize the domestic software industry and discover outstanding university student programmers, and it was held on the largest scale in the country, with over 4,000 participants in the first online preliminary round last October.
The first preliminary round was held in the form of an 'open book open class' for 24 hours to allow even novice developers who had just started studying software to think through and solve the problems, and the second preliminary round was conducted online for 12 hours.
133 students selected through two rounds of preliminary competitions participated in the finals held on the 14th and competed in programming skills for a total of four hours.
As a result of the final competition, a total of 23 students received awards, including Hong Eun-gi (Korea University) taking first place, and Kim Kyung-geun (Sungkyunkwan University) and Kim Chan-min (Seoul National University) taking second place. The Group Award, given to the university that produced the most winners, was awarded to Seoul National University, which produced a total of 9 out of 23 winners, and software-related equipment worth 10 million won is scheduled to be delivered.
Samsung Electronics will award prize money to the winners and plans to give preferential treatment to the winners if they apply for employment at Samsung Electronics in the future.
Winners receive preferential treatment when applying for a job at Samsung Electronics, and the participation of middle school students is drawing attention.
In particular, the first and second place winners will be given the opportunity to attend the 'Samsung Developer Conference (SDS)' held in San Francisco, USA in April of this year.
Among the students participating in this competition, several stood out for their unique backgrounds as software developers, including Kim Min-soo (Diplomacy, Seoul National University) and Kim Hee-jae (Business Administration, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), who come from non-science and engineering backgrounds. In particular, Lee Seon-gyu (Leehyun Middle School), who participated in the university student competition despite being a middle school student, attracted the attention of the organizers.
Han Ji-yeon, a senior engineer at Samsung Electronics who organized the SCPC competition, said, “This competition is a venue for university students to verify their programming skills and have fun,” adding, “We did not impose restrictions on majors to provide participation opportunities to as many students as possible.”
At the special lecture held immediately after the finals, Lee Jung-hoon, a senior engineer at Samsung SDS and a former hacker with a history of winning first place at the international hacking competition DEFCON, served as a speaker. Lee Sang-hoon, President of Samsung Electronics’ Management Support Office, and Lee Hyo-gun, Vice President of the Software Center, attended to encourage the finalists and personally present awards.
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