Tuymaada International Olympiad Insights
MY TUYMAADA OLYMPIAD
Nadezhda Andreeva
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- Tuymaada Olympiad tutor and
foreign delegations coordinator in
1999-2000;
- Specialist of the Ministry of
Education of the Republic of Sakha
(Yakutia) in 2002-2004;
- Currently a blogger for
international community building
projects and a web researcher;
- I think Tuymaada Olympiad is
a project and a meeting place for
those who look into the future and
make the future;
For me, Tuymaada International Olympiad was a summer
job. At the time when I and other students joined the Tuymaada
Olympiad project, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of
Sakha (Yakutia) was its main organizer and had decided to turn
the Olympiad not only into a contest for smart students, but
also a platform for international communication between school
students and their team leaders;
- We were called the Tuymaada Olympiad tutors. The word
"tutor", as far as I remember, was first introduced by Elvira
Nikolaevna Pavlova, the Chief Specialist of the International
Department of the Ministry of Education. For this, she brought
together ten students who were former participants of the
Olympiad, as well as graduates of the Gifted Children Program, i.e.
those, who had previously participated in similar schoolchildren
development projects;
Our task was to organize recreational events for the Olympiad
participants. We used to organize such events as the World Cuisine
Day, Talents and Admirers, Tuymaada Sports Games, Tuymaada
Radio, and disco parties. Thanks to those events, the students got
to know each other better, became friends, and learned about the
culture and customs of different countries. I am sure that these
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contacts gave start to strong friendships, interesting projects and
cross-cultural communication;
- After Tuymaada, I became an employee at the International
Department, the Ministry of Education. I met a lot of interesting
people who played an important role not only in the intellectual
development of society, but also in spreading the ideas of mutual
understanding and friendship between different countries. The
victory in the Olympiad lets Yakutian schoolchildren enter the
best universities of Russia and other countries;
- Today, having personally experienced the impact of such
international projects as Tuymaada that open your mind and
horizons, I always choose jobs dedicated to international
cooperation, social projects and the development of society. In my
CV, I always mention my first valuable experience of participating
in Tuymaada Olympiad;
- I truly believe that the organizers of the Tuymaada Project
are people with a vision for the future, who think ahead and plan
many steps in advance. I salute their efforts in creating equal
opportunities for schoolchildren and adults on the principles of
openness, friendship and mutual prosperity!
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