IT: a sector immune to the crisis?

Even before the year has come to an end, 2020 is already known as a black year for the many players in the global economy affected by Covid-19. Nonetheless, digital and computing professionals are still doing quite well on the labor market. EPITA-trained engineers are obviously no exception.

The 2020 French Robotics Cup: Evolutek takes 5th place!

Bringing together students from EPITA, IPSA and Epitech, the Parisian Evolutek association has been specialized in the creation of robots for over 20 years. The association regularly participates in the French Robotics Cup, an annual competition where teams from all over France compete in an original event. The 2020 edition was held October 28 and 29 in La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée region), where the Evolutek team managed to make its way to 5th place in the general ranking, its best performance in nearly 10 years! The association also brought home the Team Spirit award!

2020 Design4Green challenge: two EPITA teams win 1st and 3rd places!

“Become the leading Green developer in 48 hours non-stop”: this is the principle behind the international Design4Green challenge. From November 4 to 6, nearly 250 students and professionals divided into 56 teams from 5 countries participated in the 2020 edition, with a goal of placing Green IT in the spotlight! This year, the challenge was to “Search for the Index of Fragility for a Municipality (council) in relation to its Department and its Region”, which is set by the Institut du Numérique Responsable (INR).

IOI and eJOI: the French informatics champions bring home six medals!

Scheduled September 2-6 in Tbilisi (Georgia) and September 13-19 in Singapore, the 2020 editions of the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (eJOI, reserved for students 14 and under) and The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI, students still in high school at the time of selection) had to be held remotely due to Covid-19. This did not stop the French teams, coached by the France-ioi association, from participating in events on the Parisian campus of its historic sponsor EPITA and winning six medals!

Medical Imaging: EPITA research rewarded in China!

Medical Imaging: EPITA research rewarded in China! In October, an EPITA delegation traveled to Shenzhen China to participate in the 2019 edition of MICCAI, the leading international conference on medical image processing. The event also hosted a competition dedicated to researchers: the Left Ventricle Full quantification challenge (or LVQuan) allowed Elodie Puybareau, co-manager of the […]