Teams from the Faculty of Information Technology at the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) secured both first and third places in each of the two categories of the UnIT 2025 programming competition. FIT students ranked among the most successful participants, competing against a total of 74 contestants from various faculties of CTU, Charles University, University of Economics in Prague, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, the University of Žilina, and Unicorn University.
The UnIT 2025 competition was organized on March 27, 2025, by students from the BEST Prague organization in cooperation with companies and with the support of FIT CTU, which hosted the event on its premises. Participants had only 7 hours to complete the assignments, after which they presented their results to a panel of expert judges consisting of company representatives, members of BEST, and academic staff from CTU. This year’s competition featured two categories: JetBrains: Help the Developer and Datamole: Landscape Development Prediction. In addition to valuable experience, teams competed for prizes worth CZK 70,000, donated by partner companies.
In the JetBrains: Help the Developer category, the first place went to the FIT CTU team Absolute UnITs, composed of Bc. Vojtěch Müller, Bc. Matouš Kulhan, Bc. Matěj Frnka, and Bc. Matěj Kocourek. Third place went to another FIT CTU team, Abstract Beer Consumers, made up of Mykhailo Kharchenko, Maksym Suvorov, Kirill Gubarkov, and Artem Avhust.
“We developed a tool that helps beginner programmers improve their coding skills – particularly in object-oriented programming and SOLID principles. To support learning, we used a gamification approach: the tool evaluates the quality of the user's code with a score from 0 to 10. The user aims to reach a score of 10/10, aided by hints our tool provides for problematic lines of code,” said Matěj Frnka, a member of the winning team in the JetBrains: Help the Developer category.
In the Datamole: Landscape Development Prediction category, the first place was taken by the team DataBug, composed of Bc. Yannick Daniel Gibson, Bc. Vojtěch Kváš, Bc. Martin Beneš, and Lukáš Mrázek. Third place went to the team Bobíci, made up of Bc. Jan Koten, Bc. Jakub Zeman, Bc. Filip Špaček, and Le Vu Neumann.
“In the competition, we tackled satellite image prediction using a convolutional LSTM network – based on five multispectral images of an area (each five days apart), we predicted how the area would look in 25 days, using the EVI vegetation index. Due to cloud contamination, we had to implement an algorithm to remove them. We also added a web visualization of the results,” said Yannick Daniel Gibson, a member of the winning team in the Datamole: Landscape Development Prediction category. “We really enjoyed the competition – one intense day of coding, brainstorming, and teamwork was both a challenge and a great experience. Thanks to BEST Prague and Datamole for organizing and providing the challenge!” he added.
