From December 20 to January 20, we received 122 stories from high school students. Ural writer and author of the novels "Petrov in the Grippe and Around It" and "Occulttrager," Alexey Salnikov, along with the contest jury, selected the best works.
The selection for the regional stage of the Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys Olympiad is commencing in Sverdlovsk Region. Students from the 10th grade of general education institutions in the region are invited to participate in the first qualifying round of this well-known nationwide televised Olympiad in the Urals. Students in the 10th grade can submit their applications starting from February 1 via their personal accounts on the Golden Ratio Foundation's website.
Mikhail Shelkov’s Empathy Foundation, and the Foundation for Development of Physics and Technology Schools presented a free physics, mathematics and IT camp in Moscow, for school children from Sverdlovsk and Perm. This first joint educational project allowed students to improve their knowledge in the fields of physics, mathematics or computer science, receive training from the best teachers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), visit the university’s museum and closed laboratories, and start preparing for Olympiads and scientific conferences.
High school students will have the opportunity to test their storytelling abilities in the contest. The winner will receive 30,000 rubles (~430 USD).
The material from A&F-Ural covers the opening of a creative space in Verkhnyaya Salda - the very first "Boiling Point" for school students in the Urals and the fourth in Russia.
In a short video for the official VK portal of Sverdlovsk Region, they shared why they are eagerly anticipating it.
Izvestia reported on the signing of an agreement on strategic cooperation between Mikhail Shelkov, founder of the Foundation, and Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO. One of the areas of joint work is VSMPO-AVISMA corporate scholarships, which have been operating at the university for the second year already. This academic year, more than 1.4 million rubles is again allocated to support 7 students.
On Monday, November 28, at 16:00 (Yekaterinburg time), a live webinar about the new Empathy Foundation program to support teachers in two cities of the Sverdlovsk region will start. Join the broadcast!
In the Sverdlovsk Region, tenth-graders are invited to take preparatory courses before the first ever regional stage of the Ural Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys Olympiad. The organizers of the Olympiad in the region are the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region, Mikhail Shelkov's Empathy Charitable Foundation and the Golden Section Foundation for the Support of Talented Children and Youth.
Teachers do not have enough free time - teachers themselves often talk and write about it. Paperwork, parent meetings, chats, pedagogical councils - you want to take a break from it all. But some teachers find strength and time to participate in competitions. How they do it, and most importantly, why - shares "Mel".
The winners will receive 50 thousand rubles. In its material E1 notes that the money was promised by the billionaire's Fund from the Forbes list.
The close link between business and charity has recently ceased to look like something outlandish and unbelievable. In recent years, one can hear more and more often about the socially responsible approach of entrepreneurs. Mikhail Shelkov is an active supporter of this approach to business, as Kommersant notes in its article.