Three schoolchildren will represent the Vitebsk region at the republican stage of the financial literacy Olympiad

In our country, the Government and the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus pay great attention to the development of financial literacy of the population. For several years in a row, annual financial literacy olympiads have been held among students of grades 10-11 of educational institutions.

The 3 stages of the financial literacy olympiad were held in the Vitebsk region. The final republican stage is ahead, which will be held in a solemn ceremony on December 15 at the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus.

A distinctive feature of this year's olympiad was its four-stage format, and the number of tasks on various topics, the level of difficulty of questions were determined based on the analysis of last year's olympiad. The process of its conduct has also been improved: organizational issues, regulations, rules, description of stages. Envelopes with tasks are opened simultaneously in all regions of Belarus to maintain secrecy.

The olympiad tasks are aimed at testing knowledge on topics such as "cash", "savings", "borrowing", "digital banking", "National Bank", "insurance", "taxes", "investments".

The Vitebsk region in the final republican stage of the olympiad will be represented by the winners of the regional stage: Denis Shnitko, an 11th-grade student of secondary school No. 1 in Lepel (1st place), Dmitry Ivashkov, a 10th-grade student of secondary school No. 2 in Senno (2nd place), Evgeny Mashnyuk, an 11th-grade student of secondary school No. 1 in Sharkovshchina (3rd place).

Interest in the financial literacy olympiad is growing year by year, as its main goal is to create conditions for the realization of students' intellectual abilities, and for them to gain experience in cognitive, communicative, practical and creative activities.

Valery Batalko,
chief specialist of the economic department of the main department
of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
for the Vitebsk region.