Modern foreign language education in Russia is riddled with various challenges, ranging from the forced introduction of interactive technologies to complications imposed by political agenda. The article analyses Olympiad tasks and their peculiarities at different stages, considering competitive projects, both university projects All-Russian schoolchildren. author offers some recommendations on ...

introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...

All communications about this column should be sent to Professor R.E. Woodrow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2N 1N4. We begin this number with the problems of the IV class of the Croatian National Mathematical Competition, Novi Vinodolski, May 8{11, 1997. Thanks go to Richard Nowakowski, Canadian Team Leader to the IMO in Argentina f...

The article discusses the main approaches to development and use of task system for first All-Russian Olympiad in artificial intelligence schoolchildren. schoolchildren, held by Ministry Education Russian Federation, had distinctive features procedure competition tasks. These can be used comparative analysis expert evaluation intellectual competitions schoolchildren Russia. subjects tasks are N...

In the paper problems which organizers of Olympiads are faced considered. The approach to solve this problems suggested. This approach is based on activity theory and includes using rather simple constructive problems as a first step to more complicated theoretical ones. The experience of implementing this approach within the framework of the Olympiad in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Inf...

ion and Persistence: Macro-Level Guarantees of Collective Bio-Inspired Teams under Human