Winners of international and subject Olympiads will be honored in Vitebsk on May 28

May 25, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. In Vitebsk, on May 28, winners of international and republican subject Olympiads will be honored, the Education Department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. The ceremony, with the participation of representatives of regional and city authorities, will be held at the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic. The focus on this day will deservedly be on gifted students of the region who have achieved significant academic success, as well as their teachers and parents. For example, Svetlana Ovchinnikova and Sergey Dovgal from Gymnasium No. 8 in Vitebsk became winners of the 2009 international mathematics Olympiad, and Natalia Bukhtarevich (Gymnasium No. 1 in Vitebsk) won the biology Olympiad. Seven representatives of educational institutions in the region won first-degree diplomas at the 2010 republican Olympiads in Belarusian language and literature, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and geography. The award collection includes 17 second-degree diplomas in social studies, geography, history, biology, physics, mathematics, Spanish and English languages, Russian language and literature, and 65 third-degree diplomas in 16 subjects. The largest number of awards for the Vitebsk region was brought by the team of mathematicians, who have 21 diplomas. Young computer scientists, physicists, and geographers represented the region with dignity, winning 8 diplomas each. Moreover, the Olympiad winners are students not only from educational institutions in the regional center and large cities of the Vitebsk region, but also from rural districts, the department added. -0-