3 Belarusian teams win European Festival of Creativity Odyssey of Mind

20 мая 2013

This year, the competition was held in Germany.


 By Diana Revyakova:


(Valentin Volosach, member of the team winning the XXI European Festival The Odyssey of the Mind)


(Veronika Sanko, member of the team winning the XXI European Festival The Odyssey of the Mind)


The contest, in fact, lasted for a year. Within the 12 months the participants together with their coaches had to solve one of the six problems offered to them. The topics are completely different from science and technology to culture and education.


(Inta Shkuran, coach of the team of the Gymnasium №21)


The unusual competition was established 30 years ago by Sam Micklus, professor at Technical University of New Jersey.


(Nikolai Alekseev, Chairman of the Presidium of the Belarusian Psychoanalytic Society)


This year our schoolchildren participated in the competition for the 10th time. Three Belarusian teams are among the winners.


This autumn the most creative young Belarusians will come up with creative solutions of a new problem offered by the organizers of the competition. Next spring it will be presented to the international jury inSlovakia.