A final round of the Republican contest “Tatarstan Erudite – 2016” will be held on the 22nd of April 2016 at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. The contest is held for students of schools, gymnasiums, lyceums of the republic in two age categories (schoolchildren of 7-9 grades and 10-11 grades) and consists of two rounds.
The first round is online testing, where participants of the contest have to answer within the hour 60 questions on the main topics of the school curriculum (mathematics, Russian language, literature, history, chemistry, biology, etc.). The schoolchildren with the highest scores are invited to the second round, where the knowledge of the participants will be checked on various disciplines outside the school program. Scientists and researchers of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan and Kazan (Volga region) Federal University will assess the work of students according to criteria such as the accuracy of the response, argumentativeness and culture of speech.
Within the framework of the second round it will be held an intellectual competition Nano-IQ, organized by Technopark “Idea”. The nomination should contribute to the growth of interest in nanotechnology, nanomaterials and nanosystems, and motivate students to deepen and broaden the knowledge about modern trends of development in the interdisciplinary field of fundamental and applied science and technology. The participants, who will show the highest erudition in the field of nanotechnology, will be awarded with special hi-tech prizes from Technopark “Idea”.
Note that the organizers of the competition are the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Academy of Sciences of RT, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (KFU), Innovative Technopark “Idea” and Academic Lyceum named after N.I. Lobachevsky and JSC “ICL-KME CS”.
We invite journalists to the intellectual contest Nano-IQ and the awards ceremony.
Time and date: April 22, 2016 at 02.00 pm.
Venue: the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan (20, Bauman str., Kazan)
Contact person: Alsu Mironova (+7 952 036 36 89, am@tpidea.ru)
