SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
BHOS winning teams awarded at TEKNOFEST 2024
Baku, October 14, AZERTAC
The teams “BHOSWARE” and “Dərbəndqala – BHOS” from the Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) of SOCAR were awarded at the TEKNOFEST-2024 festival.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Türkiye, also attended the award ceremony held in Adana.
The “BHOSWARE” team secured the top position in the CTF competition under the "Hackmasters" category, held during the festival in Antalya, Türkiye.
The team’s scientific supervisor, Nihat Alili, is a lecturer at the Information Technology Department. The team members include 5th-year Information Security students: Ali Maharramli, Mahammadjan Mahammadjanov, Sahib Humbatzade, and Ogtay Ahmadov.
The “BHOSWARE” team was awarded a prize of 150,000 TL.
They were selected out of 1,000 registered teams and emerged victorious among the 10 teams that reached the final.
The “Dərbəndqala – BHOS” team took second place in the “Social Innovation in Technology for Humanity” category.
The team’s scientific supervisor is Emiliya Ahmadova, a senior engineer at the BHOS Innovation and Research Centre. The team consists of 4th-year students in the “Automation of technological processes” specialty: Zahid Abdullayev, Rena Isayeva, Ravan Khidirov, and 4th-year “Business Administration” student Murad Aliyev.
The “Dərbəndqala – BHOS” team reached the final with the highest score in its category (97 points) and won second place at TEKNOFEST, scoring 86.31 points in the final.
It should be noted that the “Dərbəndqala – BHOS” team was the only foreign team to reach the final in its category.
The BHOS team was awarded a prize of 50,000 TL.