Unacademy Announces Go-For-Gold Initiative for School Students
New Delhi, November 24, 2020: Unacademy, India’s leading learning platform, has announced the Go-For-Gold Initiative for Indian school students participating in the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2021. The IOI is one of the most prestigious UNESCO-recognized Olympiads in programming and informatics for school students.
The Go-For-Gold Initiative was started by CodeChef in the year 2013 to bridge the gap in talent and train aspiring contestants for the IOI examination. Unacademy took over the custodianship of CodeChef in June 2020. As part of the Go-For-Gold initiative, Unacademy will award a cash prize worth Rs. 15 lakhs, along with a laptop and other rewards to any Indian student winning a gold medal at IOI 2021.
Anup Kalbalia, CodeChef Business Head at Unacademy says "We are extremely elated that Unacademy has decided to carry forward CodeChef’s Go-For-Gold initiative which aims to prepare Indian school students to excel at the prestigious IOI. With Unacademy at our side, we aim to accelerate our efforts to create awareness across the country about inculcating problem-solving & informatics in the school curriculum early on. Although true, it is not widely known that programming can actually be learned without using a computer, through interactive means like puzzles, building logic, and computational thinking."
CodeChef has also started a free Learning Program for IOI preparation on Unacademy’s platform. The Learning Program consists of topic-wise live classes, recorded videos & doubt-resolution sessions led by CodeChef volunteers.
IOI, ICO, and CodeChef
Every year, 4 students each from 85+ countries participate in IOI. The top 4 Indian students who participate in IOI are selected through a national-level Olympiad called the Indian Computing Olympiad (ICO). ICO is conducted by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) in association with CodeChef & TCS iON.
The steps & schedule to reach IOI 2021 for Indian school students are:
About Unacademy Group:
Unacademy is an education technology platform founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, and Hemesh Singh in 2015. It was started as a YouTube channel by Gaurav Munjal in 2010. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Unacademy is India’s largest learning platform that brings expert Educators together with millions of students in need of quality education. With a growing network of more than 18,000 registered educators and 30 million learners, Unacademy is changing the way India learns. The Unacademy group consists of Unacademy, Unacademy Subscription, Wifistudy, Kreatryx, PrepLadder, CodeChef, Mastree, Graphy, Coursavy, Chamomile Tea with Toppers and Let’s Crack it Brands. The company is backed by prominent investors such as SoftBank, Facebook, General Atlantic, Sequoia India, SAIF Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, and Blume Ventures.
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Sumanta Dey | Sonakshi Murze| press@unacademy.com
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