A new season of the National Technology Olympiad has begun
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The National Technological Olympiad (NTO) is a team engineering competition for school students in grades 5-11 and university students. The competition is divided into three age tracks: Junior, school, and student. Each track is further divided into profiles related to the most relevant specialties in the Russian technology market.

The development of computer games is presented in two formats:

For the Junior track (grades 5-7), NTO offers participation in the field of "Game Development," which will also serve as preparation for the school profile "Computer Game Development."
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The school track for high school students (grades 8-11) includes the profile "Computer Game Development," participation in which allows one to go through the entire process of creating a game — from the idea and design of game mechanics to programming, creating 2D and 3D graphics, and assembling a working prototype. The project for the Olympiad is to be prepared in a team of 3-4 people, and it will be evaluated by real experts from the gaming industry in the finals.
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For NTO participants, game development has the following advantages:

  • Experience in developing a personal game project;
  • Teamwork and the opportunity to find like-minded individuals;
  • Communication with experts and representatives of the gaming industry;
  • A ready project for one's portfolio;
  • A chance to take the first serious steps in the gaming industry even before entering university;
  • Top places in the Olympiad allow admission to some universities without entrance exams and can be counted as 100 points in the Unified State Exam (USE).

Registration for the NTO is already open at: my.ntcontest.ru/