Moscow Polytech Announces Results of “Vikhr-2023” Russian National Hackathon in Engineering

The Russian engineering hackathon – “Vikhr-2023” announced the results of the contest.

According to the head of the department for “Engineering Mechanics and Computer Modelling” Yulia Brovkina, the Russian engineering hackathon – “Vikhr” is set to increase the level of technical training of students and acquisition of practical skills to solve non-routine tasks.

Overall, 58 teams from various Russian cities – Moscow, St.Petersburg, Tyumen, Samara, Volgograd, Tula, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and etc., have submitted their applications.

In the course of three days, the teams formed Moscow university and school students with 3-5 people each had to test their engineering wit and creativity.

During the main stage, the students had to find a solution to a real-life issue in automation and robot automation of technological processes, and pass the blitz tournament – solving technological challenges within one hour.

On November 24 (Fri), following the completion of all contest stages an award ceremony took place.

The list of winners for each category is as follows:

“Aquaphor” nomination

"Kvazar" (Moscow Poly) – “Tauras Phenix” nomination

“Tauras-Phenix” nomination

"MOROSHKA" (Tyumen Industrial University)

"Protemol" nomination

"Sarmat" (Samara national research university named after S.P.Korolyov)

"Murommashzavod" nomination

"Aist.02" (Samara national research university named after S.P.Korolyov)

"Techkom" nomination

"neStore" (Tyumen Industrial University)

The “Kvartet E” team won in the Blitz tournament nomination "Квартет Э" (scientific-research university "MPEI")