Comtrade Gaming has welcomed the 22nd generation of students to its summer IT school programme, EDIT.
Since 1996, the EDIT (Education for Innovative Thinkers) summer school has been organised region-wide across seven cities in Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ireland, attracting over 100 of the brightest and most talented students from technology high schools and universities.
The programme is designed to inspire innovation and provide young software developers and future IT professionals with the opportunity to develop their skills through actual hands-on work, enabling students to lead projects, experience the dynamics of teamwork and prepare them for future career in IT. Today, EDIT is the largest summer program for information technology in Southern and Eastern Europe.
This year, participants had the task of preparing a visual transparent presentation of casino operations happening in real time. They develop a visual map of the casino layout and implemented a wide range of analysed quantitative data so that the casino management would have an instant picture of business operations.
“The key thing was to demonstrate a clear graphical user-friendly interface, and figure out which big data to show while using agile methodologies of development since they were very limited by time,” said Jan Grilanc, mentor to a group of students in Maribor. Up to now, around 30 per cent of summer IT school EDIT participants continued their career path with Comtrade.
“Summer IT school EDIT is a rare and unique moment for students to experience actual work life,“ said Aleš Gornjec, general manager of Comtrade Gaming.
“EDIT is an excellent starting point in career path of these talented candidates and a great opportunity for Comtrade Gaming, to recognise and coach them. We offer students work on projects and topics based on current trends in information technology and with an opportunity for a long-term relationship with Comtrade Gaming.”
