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.
In the spring of 2023 in Ekaterinburg will be the selection of participants for the program “Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys”. The prize is an admission to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) without exams.
Tenth-graders from all over the Sverdlovsk region will take part in the selection. Applications will be available from February 1, 2023. And already on February 18, the first absentee selection stage will take place in schools: children will have to write an essay. The lists of those who have successfully coped with this task will be announced on March 10. They will be invited to the second in-person stage, which will take place in April-May in Ekaterinburg.
The final will be held according to the rules, close to those that operate in the program “Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys”: with semifinal and final agonas, orders, agonists and theorists. The winners will be only three schoolchildren: those who will pass the final round, as well as theorists who scored the most points for correct answers. Then they will go to Moscow for filming.
The organizers were the regional Ministry of Education, the Golden Section Foundation and the Empathy Foundation of billionaire Mikhail Shelkov. His fortune is 1.5 billion dollars and he is ranked 59th in the Russian Forbes list.
Schoolchildren who win in Ekaterinburg will receive a scholarship to MGIMO: 50 thousand rubles a month. The money will be paid, among other things, during their postgraduate studies. They are promised by the Empathy Foundation.
It is noteworthy that in the Sverdlovsk region selection for the program, which has been broadcast since 1992, will be held for the first time.
– Probably every schoolchild in Russia has heard about the program “Smarties and Smarties”, – said Mikhail Shelkov. – It would not be an exaggeration to say that for thirty years, while the TV Olympiad is on, the whole country has been learning history, literature and art. That is why today we are pleased to launch the selection in the Urals for the first time. I am sure that there are many talented children studying in the Sverdlovsk region, whom we will see in the finals.
Yuri Vyazemsky, the permanent host, will personally evaluate the Urals schoolchildren during the in-person round: “Every person is born smart. This smart girl should be found, nurtured and protected”