ICode Global Hackathon: Indian Students From Tier II & III Cities Make Up For Over 75% Of The Finalists

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ICode Global Hackathon: Indian Students From Tier II & III Cities Make Up For Over 75% Of The Finalists

ICode Global Hackathon, an international coding competition organized by ICode, has finally concluded its global round with a bang. The best part is that 10 of the top 50 students who advanced to the final stage of this global hackathon belong to the Indian nationality.

The hackathon, whose registration started in January 2021, attracted a phenomenal response from parents and students across more than 22 countries. The event witnessed massive participation from India, with over 40,000 registrations. After qualifying the multiple regional and national rounds, a total of 57 students from India qualified to participate in the global round of ICode of which 10 students reached the finals.

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The background of the 10 Indian students who advanced to the final 50 is as follows:

S.No	Students’ Name	School’s Name	State
1	Leher Garg	Little Angels High School	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
2	Yatharth Shah	Bolton School	Secunderabad, Telangana
3	Siddhjeet Singh Yadav	Little Angels High School	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
4	Danish Reddy Mandlem	Bolton School	Secunderabad, Telangana
5	Mishika Shah	Little Angels High School	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
6	Manya Agrawal	Krishna Public School	Raipur, Chhattisgarh
7	Ramit Garg	Little Angels High School	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
8	S Saisritarun	BIPS Bagalkot	Bengaluru, Karnataka
9	Pratap Singh Rudra	Little Angels High School	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
10	Viraj Singh	Aryan International School	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Immensely happy with the results, Asaf Rothchild, Head of Global Partnerships, ICode Foundation stated, “The number of finalists from India stands to grow exponentially in the coming years as the country rolls out the New Education Policy. We would like to congratulate the leaders and policymakers in India for their focus on building foundation skills in Computational Thinking in their education policy.”

Amit Yadav, Head of India Partnerships, ICode Foundation, further stated, ‘’Through this Olympiad, our vision is to harness this talent and bring our students at par with their international counterparts.”

What is ICode?

ICODE.ORG is a worldwide social impact platform that ensures that every k-12 kid learns to code effortlessly. The Israel-based organization works in tandem with the Israeli Ministry of Education and has a presence in over 70 countries. The organization strives to provide students with access to a computer or mobile device, regardless of their location or other societal constraints, to help them learn to code for free.

All you need to know about ICode Global hackathon

How many rounds are there in ICode?

The hackathon consists of 3 main rounds with multiple sub-rounds. The various rounds in which the students from India had to participate were:

State Level Round
Regional Round
National Round
South Asian Round
Global Round

Important dates and deadlines for ICode 2022

S.No	Rounds	Tentative Dates
1.	Registration	January 2022
2.	State Level Round	August 2022
3.	Regional Round	October 2022
4.	National Round	November 2022
5.	Global Round	December 2022

With such remarkable performance, Indian students have displayed that they possess both the zeal and the calibre when it comes to coding. It has no doubt reinvigorated everyone’s confidence in the quality of the Indian education system.

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