Vitebsk hosts award ceremony for regional executive committee prizes to subject Olympiad finalists and their teachers
Since their establishment (April 2012), the regional executive committee's awards have been granted to 473 students and 350 teachers. This time, holders of 70 diplomas and three medals were honored. Artur Petukhovsky from Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 8 received a silver medal for his performance at the International Olympiad in Informatics. Bronze medals were awarded to Anton Zhiltsov from Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 2 at the IV International Geographic Olympiad of the Baltic Region Schoolchildren and Egor Gaffarov from Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 1 at the International Geographic Olympiad. A number of the newly awarded recipients of the regional executive committee's prizes have already become students of prestigious domestic and Russian universities.
Addressing the participants of the solemn ceremony, Chairman of the Regional Council of Deputies Vladimir Terentyev thanked the olympiad winners for their impressive results, the teachers for their high professional skills and contribution to the development of the olympiad movement, and the parents of the awarded schoolchildren for their comprehensive assistance and support in raising gifted children.
The head of the Vitebsk region's parliamentary corps noted that education in Belarus is among the most important state priorities. Improving its quality and accessibility is the goal of the State Program "Education and Youth Policy for 2016-2020".
The region is consistently working to strengthen and develop the material and technical base of educational institutions, improve the social protection of industry workers, support students, and provide moral and material incentives for pedagogical work. This year alone, 552 million rubles (almost 31%) have been allocated from the regional budget for these purposes.
A significant amount of work has been done to modernize and repair educational institutions; 45 buses, 40 computer classes, 215 personal computers, and other equipment necessary for the educational process have been acquired using budgetary funds and funds from other sources.
Approximately 150 thousand rubles are allocated annually for the regional stage of the republican olympiad, for awarding the winners of its final stage and international olympiads, and for teachers who have prepared the best participants.
The educators of Vitebsk region are highly qualified professionals with an active life position, fruitfully working in urban and rural educational institutions for the benefit of our homeland. A whole galaxy of them are holders of the honorary title "Person of the Year of Vitebsk Region" in the nomination "Education".
These include Veronika Laktina (Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 8, Informatics), who has prepared 41 olympiad winners, including 6 international ones; Alla Moralina (Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 1, Biology), whose students have also repeatedly excelled in domestic and foreign intellectual competitions; Elena Alexandrova (Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 7, Russian Language and Literature); Sergey Krivenko (Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 2, Geography); Tatyana Bortkevich (Glubokoye District Gymnasium, Belarusian Language and Literature), and many others.
The award ceremony was graced by the best school creative groups.