From April 10 to 12, the final stage of the International Competition of Scientific and Creative Works "Start in Science" took place in Moscow, where pupils from Nizhnyaya Salda presented their research.
In May, the Sverdlovsk Region will host the final stage of the regional selection of the "Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys" Olympiad, the winners of which will go to a TV program in Moscow and receive cash prizes from the Mikhail Shelkov Foundation. Journalist 66.RU talked to the participants and winners of the Olympiads of previous years and found out how the games are actually held, what atmosphere reigns in the studio and how their fate was after wins and losses.
Test your knowledge in a new quiz on Gazeta.Ru. Questions about the structure of the world around us were prepared by experts from the Fiztech-Schools Development Foundation and the Mikhail Shelkov Foundation, which launched a free educational program in physics, mathematics and computer science at MIPT for schoolchildren from the Sverdlovsk region and Perm Krai in 2023.
Over 100 educators from preschools, schools in Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Salda, as well as a college, gathered at the Perspektiva PIC (Project and Innovation Center) for the training session titled "Projects that Transform Schools." The training was conducted by Dmitry Brekhov, a master of the School of Humanitarian Catalysts, as well as an expert from the Ranepa Ranhigs University, along with Julia Manaenkova, the vice rector of the Higher Technical School in Tula and an expert from the Empathy Charitable Foundation, founded by Mikhail Shelkov.
"Izvestia" analyzed whether neural networks in the future can completely replace teachers and how a chatbot can be useful at school. Mikhail Shelkov, founder of the Empathy Charitable Foundation, notes that teaching can be automated if the teacher's function is reduced to explaining the material and correcting mistakes. "I think it is impossible to replace the teacher as a mentor, as well as to teach AI empathy. Algorithms and technological solutions can save teachers' time, but they are still secondary."
Vesti Ural about the Empathy and MIPT educational shift: 60 children from the Sverdlovsk Region and Perm Territory will go to Moscow for training within the framework of the Science to Regions project. Both schoolchildren and teachers are a bit excited. Many will go to the capital for the first time, and for two weeks.
In the Sverdlovsk region chose 30 schoolchildren who will participate in the final part of the regional selection for the TV show Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys. The three best participants of the final from among agonists and theorists will be able to perform on the TV show and will receive 100 thousand rubles each from the Mikhail Shelkov Foundation, FederalPress reports.
Test 66.RU, timed to the first in the history of Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys program regional selection in the Sverdlovsk region. The winners of the selection will take part in the TV Humanitarian Olympiad for schoolchildren in Moscow, get a chance to enter MGIMO and win prizes from Empathy. In the meantime, we invite you to take part in the game and test your knowledge.
60 schoolchildren and 8 teachers from Yekaterinburg, Perm, Berezniki and Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Salda will have a unique opportunity to be trained by the best teachers of MIPT in Moscow, visit the museum and closed laboratories of the university, as well as prepare for Olympiads and scientific conferences. The full list of project participants is at the link.
Mikhail Shelkov’s Charitable Foundation has joined the association of the largest grant-giving organizations operating in Russia. Since 2002, the Donors Forum has been the only association of foundations and companies systematically engaged in charitable activities in Russia.
The first stage of the regional selection for the Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys Olympiad recently took place in Sverdlovsk Region. In the first qualifying round, held in the Urals, 70 10th-grade students from across the region participated in this well-known nationwide Olympiad. The students were asked to write an essay on one of 5 topics dedicated to the Urals.
Forbes Education, in collaboration with Mikhail Shelkov’s Empathy Foundation and the Village Foundation, conducted a survey with the aim of creating a portrait of a young Russian teacher: why they had chosen this profession, what they liked and disliked about teaching, their future plans, how they coped with burnout, and what they dreamed about. It's about capturing the state of their soul, their thought process and even their way of life.