Jewish Student Takes Top Award in S. Petersburg
	S. PETERSBURG, Russia – For one Jewish student in S. Petersburg, his day has come to be champion of a regional competition of young computer programmers, known as 'Supercode 2008' and organized by the Intel Corporation. This is a preliminary contest that will bring the top minds from across Russia into the next level of the competition, which is country-wide. Misha Ivanov, a seventh-grade student at the 'Beis Menachem' Chabad Jewish Day School, took the award on May 14th. He was one of 500 students from the region. The competitors were given the task of creating a computer game in just four hours using the program 'Scratch', which allows users to compile film clips, cartoons and games with various types of information like photos, pictures, sound files.
There was one condition – to include aspects of a Russian national story or fairy tale. Misha based his project on the story 'Kolobok'. The jury declared Misha's game to be the most developed of all submissions, both on the technical side and the creative. This first-place prize will soon take him into the next round of national-level competition, which will take place in June.