Tuymaada International Olympiad Insights

Science in Pedagogy. The members of the Physics Jury include Professor Timofey Soloviev, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Dr. Vasily Sivtsev, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Dr. Radion Bochkarev, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Dr. Konstantin Gerasimov, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics; Dr. Zim Petrov, Candidate of Science in Engineering, Dr. Nadezhda Savvinova, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Dr. Ivan Muksunov, Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics, Natalia Solovieva, Olga Andrianova, and Nikolay Nikolaev. In 2000, an ever-expanding group of physics tasks designers was formed. All tasks became unique and original. The authors include leading Russian tasks designers, jury and metho- dological commissions members of the All-Russian Physics Olympiad Professor Stanislav Kozel, Dr. Aleksey Gudenko, Dmitry Aleksandrov, Dr. Vyacheslav Muraviev, Aleksandr Chudnovsky, Dr. Sergey Varlamov, and others. Every year, a set of tasks and their solutions with the grading scheme are published in a small book. North-Eastern Federal University Professor Boris Yakovlev introduced the logo of the physics Olympiad, a baby mammoth standing on the scales. Tuymaada Olympiad received its international status thanks to the active interest of foreign students: in different years the participants included students from Romania, Bulgaria, France, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, China, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, the United States, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. In the early years of the Olympiad, Romanian competitors were the clear leaders, but they did not fall to arrogance and continued participating every year. The Organizing Committee is very grateful to them for that. Since 2004, the Second Team of the Russian Federation, consisting of the 10th and 11th grade winners of the All-Russian Olympiad, has been participating in Tuymaada and won many prizes. The Kazakhstan Team consistently shows high results and is leading in the number of participants among all foreign teams. The results of Tuymaada Olympiad are officially recognized in Romania and Kazakhstan for school students entering national universities. In Kazakhstan, the winners of the Olympiad can receive a state educational grant within the framework of the Intellectual Nation National Priority Project. It should be noted that Kazakhstan participants show high results in many other olympiads, for instance, in 2011 in Thailand, they beat the Russian Federation Team at the International Physics Olympiad. These successes are definitely due to a state program for supporting and developing gifted children and young men. In 2007, MCNMO Publishing House (Moscow) printed 3,000 copies of the collected tasks of Tuymaada Olympiad in physics. The book is recommended by the Academic Methodological Association of classical universities of the Russian Federation as a study aid. It has been sold all over Russia and received the high praise of specialists. 33

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