Alem Cup is an open online programming championship where people of any age and background can participate. Tournament participants create artificial intelligence for bots that will compete with bots of other players in a computer game.

“The Alem Cup championship is designed not only to support and develop programming among young people, but also to identify talented programmers, giving them the opportunity to realize their potential. In his message, our President noted the important role of artificial intelligence in the modern world and emphasized the need for development in this direction. The topic of artificial intelligence today is as relevant as it is complex. But despite this, we received more than 180 applications to participate in the tournament this year, and this is makes me feel happy,” said Danabek Kaliazhdarov, head of Alem School.

The Alem Cup is divided into three parts: Sandbox, Arena and Final. In the Arena, experienced programmers compete for cash prizes in the team competition, and anyone can participate in the Sandbox, even without knowing how to program, thanks to the visual programming language Blocky. Also, participants can use the programming languages ​​Python, C++, JS, Go, Pascal, Java, PHP, C, C#, Ruby and Kotlin.

The three Arena teams with the highest rating will receive an invitation to the final, which will be held on October 13 in Astana at the Digital Bridge 2023 forum. The winner of the tournament will receive a cash prize of 1 million tenge, second and third place, respectively, 700 thousand and 400 thousand tenge. Participants in the Sandbox stage will receive personalized certificates.

Let us remind you that the Alem Cup championship, which has been taking place since 2020, is organized by the Alem programming school with the support of Astana Hub. The goal of Alem Cup is to support and develop programming among students, as well as to identify talented programmers and provide them with the opportunity to prove themselves.

Let us remind you that on October 12-13, Digital Bridge 2023 will be held in Astana with the participation of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. It is expected that the forum will bring together more than 20,000 participants, 300+ IT companies, 100+ investors and business angels, 250+ speakers and 100+ startups from 15+ countries. 

Alem is the first programming school in Central Asia based on the principles of peer learning. At Alem there are no teachers or boring lectures; instead, learning is based on projects and the interaction of talented students with each other .

More detailed information is available on the website: https://cup.alem.school