Tuymaada International Olympiad Insights
TUYMAADA INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIAD IN CHEMISTRY
Dr. Aytalina Okhlopkova, Professor, Dr.Sc. in Engineering, Chief Research Fellow, Chemistry Educational Programs Director,
Full Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Chemistry Jury Chair
Human resource development
of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
in the field of chemistry begins
at school. Subject olympiads for
secondary school students are an
integral and innovative part of the
Russian education. The Olympiad
is a creative and the most efficient
system for identifying gifted children
and their career choices. Tuymaada
International Olympiad for secondary
school students in mathematics, physics, chemistry and
informatics has been held in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
for twenty-four years. Tuymaada Olympiad, as well as any
other large-scale events related to the 'contest of minds' of
young talents, include not only the organization of the event,
methodological support and task designing, but, above
all, the identification and selection of gifted students, their
participation in the event, and their targeted training. Here,
I would like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of
Dr. Marina Sokolova, Doctor of Science in Engineering, the
Chair of Chemistry Methodological Commission, who actively
works to attract more gifted students to chemistry olympiads.
It has been 24 years since we started working as members
of Tuymaada International School Olympiad.
The first years had the highest stakes: carefully selecting
jury members, choosing tasks of theoretical and experimental
rounds. The jury had a lot of responsibility. In the first years
of the Olympiad, the jury included Professor Ksenia Egorova,
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Dr. Nikolay Egorov, Dr. Marina Andreeva, Dr. Vasilisa Nikolaeva,
Dr. Lidia Ignatieva, Professor Boris Kershengolts, Dr. Viktoria
Mogileva. Then, at various times, the jury members included
Professor Aytalina Okhlopkova, Dr. Marina Sokolova, Dr. Lidia
Ignatieva, Dr. Vera Anshakova, Dr. Anastasia Sharina, Palmira
Kolesova, Albina Stepanova, Nyurguna Nogovitsyna,
former postgraduate students Dr. Aleksandra Khristoforova,
Dr. Anastasia Parnikova, Aleksandr Spiridonov, Dr. Leonid
Nikiforov, Tatiana Okhlopkova, an alumnum of Moscow State
University Dr. Igor Ignatiev. We also had assistant professors of
the Lomonosov Moscow State University who were the Olympiad
invited trainers: Dr. Olga Arkhangelskaya, Dr. Igor Tyulkov,
Dr. S. Mozhaev, Dr. Roman Antipin, Dr. Aleksandr Mazhuga,
Dr. Igor Trushkov, as well as Dr. Maksim Ilyin from Novosibirsk
State Univeristy, Dr. Aleksandr Borodin from Nikolaev Institute
of Inorganic Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) and others. Currently, our
former Tuymaada Olympiad participants take an active part in
designing excellent tasks of the theoretical round and training
schoolchildren; they are students of various universities of the
Russian Federation, winners of the finals of the All-Russian
Olympiad and the International Mendeleev Olympiad: Bulat
Kuramshin, Viktor Reshetnikov, S. Pavlov, Georgy Emelianov,
Valentin Atlasov, Denis Kravtsov, Syuzanna Parfenova, Aleksey
Golikov. The all-time designers of the experimental round
tasks are the teachers and staff of the Ammosov North-
Eastern Federal University: Aleksandr Spiridonov, Dr. Leonid
Nikiforov. Our laboratory assistants Rozalia Sidorova, Tatiana
Afanasieva, Aleksandra Zakharova are scrupulous in preparingView entire presentation