Samvel Aleksanyan from Armenia became a bronze medalist of the First  European Youth Olympiad in Informatics

ArmInfo. Samvel Aleksanyan from Armenia became the bronze medalist of the First European Youth Olympiad in Informatics eJOI, taking place in the capital of Bulgaria 

Sofia from September 7-13.

According to the official website of the Olympiad www.ejoi.org, the 

members of the junior team were selected according to the rating at 

the final stage of the General Informatics in April 2017 among the 

7-8th grades.

In total, 8 gold, 14 silver and 22 bronze medals were played at the 

Olympiad. The most talented young people from 22 countries of the 

Council of Europe took part in the Olympiad. In the medal standings, 

Russia was the leader in the number of medals, with three gold 

medals. Participants from Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Ukraine, 

Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Estonia have medalists' medal.  

Tomislav Donchev, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria, congratulated 

the organizers of the Olympiad on its successful implementation and 

stressed that the most successful investments are investments in 

human capital. According to him, a good programmer is able to create 

a new world. The next Olympiad will be held in Russia. The initiators 

of the First European Youth Informatics Olympiad eJOI are the 

president of the International Informatics Olympiad (IOI) Professor 

Krasimir Manev, the general director of the A & B School of 

Informatics Alexei Khristov, the chairman of the Council of the 

Association of Olympic Teams Elena Marinova, the Chairman of the 

Development Council of the Olympic Teams Association and the 

president of the software company Musala Soft.