For the ninth consecutive year, the Bulgarian Association of Information Technology (BAIT) awarded deserving organizations and individuals who contributed to the development of the ICT sector within the framework of the "BAIT Awards" ceremony for 2019. This year, the Technological University "Electronic Systems" (TUES) at the Technical University - Sofia won two awards! The teaching team of the school received the award for special contribution to ICT for their role in the development of young talents for the technological world. The award was presented by the patron of the initiative - the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Stela Stefanova, director of the school, thanked for the recognition and explained that the educational model of TUES, which has been training the backbone of the ICT industry in Bulgaria for over 30 years, owes its success to the integration of school-university-business. As part of the structure of TU - Sofia, the school has been successfully supported over the years with engaged teachers, mentors, and thesis supervisors from the ICT business. The successful educational model was also proven by the fact that for the third consecutive year, a student of TUES won the category for "Youth Award". Theodor Todorov from the 12th grade was one of the two winners in the category, recognized for his invented mechanized wheelchair. It is also worth noting the statistics that out of the 5 projects nominated for the youth award, 3 were developed with the participation of TUES graduates. In addition to Theodor Todorov's project, the facial recognition project "Shadower" by Evgeni Dimov and Aneta Tsvetkova from the 12a class and the Insilica project, an integrated digital platform for analyzing data from biopsies of cancer patients using artificial intelligence, by Iliyan Kordov (2018 graduate of TUES) and Borislav Borovski, students at TU-Sofia, were also nominated. The won awards are proof of the high professionalism of the young innovators and the teaching team behind them, and therefore deserve the warm admiration of the entire ICT community.
Photo: Encho Shahonov, TUES
Photo: Encho Shahonov, TUES
