Yerevan, May 17, Noyan Tapan. Students of the State Engineering University of Armenia Elena Kosolapova and Nina Azizyan were awarded first degree diplomas in the competition of Kasperski Lab company. Kasperski Lab , one of the leading producers in antivirus software, organized the International Youth competition-conference “Safety and Security of Information Technology for the New Generation” on April 28-29 in Moscow. As the head of public relation and information department of the university Veronika Khorastanyan told a Noyan Tapan reporter, the organizational committee of the competition gave highest estimations to the project of the Armenian students, studying at the Information Safety and Software Department of Engineering University, commonly known as Polytechnic Institute. According to committee’s estimation that work has a very high scientific value and application in information security area. 86 works from 13 countries were submitted to the competition. One, out of three first degree diplomas was awarded to Armenian students, presented “Study of cryptography methods” project for the ”Educational projects” nomination. The students were also gifted souvenirs and 320-gigabyte memory device and the Armenian university obtained an 80 per cent discount for all software products of Kasperski. Thanks to successful participation Polytechnic Institute has been allowed to member the Kasperski Academy. The university has obtained all teaching materials of Kasperski Academy and has been allowed use its educational programs. On the other hand students of Polytechnic Institute can intern in the Moscow headquarters of the company. Established in 1996 the Laboratory of Kasperski, which currently employs more than 1400 engineers and has branches in more than 30 countries discusses the opportunity of opening its branch in Armenia. According to Khorasanyan, works of Polytechnic Institute's students were also highly estimated at the 35th International Youth conference Gagarin's Readings held in Moscow State Technological University after Tciolkovski in April. All 8 articles submitted by the Computer systems and informatics department were approved for publishing by the Moscow university.

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