World’s largest programming competition: TCS CodeVita wins Guinness record

“The winners walked away with money prizes, and internship provides to work immediately with know-how leaders at TCS. This yr’s champion, Ben Alexander Mirtchouk of Stevens Institute of Know-how, New Jersey, is the competitors’s first ever US winner,” TCS stated in an announcement.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has introduced that the ninth season of TCS CodeVita has received the Guinness World Data title because the world’s largest laptop programming competitors, with 136,054 members from 34 international locations.

“The 2021 TCS CodeVita competitors invited faculty college students from around the globe to pit their programming abilities in opposition to one another. The winners walked away with money prizes, and internship provides to work immediately with know-how leaders at TCS. This yr’s champion, Ben Alexander Mirtchouk of Stevens Institute of Know-how, New Jersey, is the competitors’s first ever US winner,” TCS stated in an announcement.

“Lengthy earlier than phrases like hackathon grew to become frequent, TCS noticed the potential of programming as a sport and that impressed TCS CodeVita,” stated Ananth Krishnan, CTO, TCS. “This competitors is fuelling a ardour for programming in sensible younger individuals.”

The first runner-up was Václav Volhejn, a scholar at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, and the 2nd runner-up was Ali Khosravi from the College of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

These three obtained money prizes of $10,000, $7,000 and $3,000, respectively, and have been supplied the chance to intern immediately with one of many firm’s know-how leaders. TCS CodeVita was launched in 2012 to unfold consciousness concerning the varied purposes of coding and assist spot promising expertise.