On April 3, 2011 the first selection tour of the III Republican Contest “Erudite” which will involve the participation of students from all over the world will be held in the Small Hall of the Cultural and Sports Complex of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University “UNICS”.
The contest organizers are: the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Academic Lyceum named by Lobachevskiy N.I., Innovative Technology Park “Idea”.
To date, over 400 students of more than 100 schools from all districts of Tatarstan have filed their applications to participate in the Contest. In the first writing selection tour, the students divided into two age groups (7-9th and 10-11th grades), will need to answer 100 questions in 10 subjects in 100 minutes.
Those, who manage to give the correct answers to more than half the questions, automatically pass to the second oral tour of the III Republican Contest “Erudite”. This Contest will be held in the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan on April 20, 2011. There, the contestants will be asked to answer 5 questions prepared by the heads of Research Institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. The winners of the first three leading places will be awarded honorary degrees of school academics, reports the Press Office of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan.