S. Petersburg, Russia – For one Jewish student in S. Petersburg, his day has come to be champion of a regional competition of young computer programmers, known as ‘Supercode 2008’ and organized by the Intel Corporation. This is a preliminary contest that will bring the top minds from across Russia into the next level of the competition, which is country-wide.
Misha Ivanov, a seventh-grade student at the ‘Beis Menachem’ Chabad Jewish Day School, took the award on May 14th. He was one of 500 students from the region. The competitors were given the task of creating a computer game in just four hours using the program ‘Scratch’, which allows users to compile film clips, cartoons and games with various types of information like photos, pictures, sound files.
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The russians have always been good at programming competitions (they’ve won the ACM competitions a disproprtionate amount of tiume) due to their secular education which seems to prepare the mind for puzzle-solving and logical thought. this is why they’re great at chess, for instance.
What I find interesting here is that the student seems to have been educated in a frum school, which means that the school has managed to teach limudei kodesh while managing to teach the same incredible way of thinking as the non-jewish schools. kol hakovod to chabad for acheiving that!