The IV International Complex Olympiad in Biomedical Sciences 鈥淧rognosis Optima!鈥� took place in October at 91视频. This year it received funding from the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs 鈥淩osmolodezh鈥�. More than two hundred and eighty people from 20 Russian cities took part in the Russian-language league and international participants competed in the English-language league of the project. During the four years of the Olympiad, more than 800 people from 28 cities and 10 countries have taken part in the Olympiad.
Rodion Ivashchenko, Head of the Organizing Committee and Founder of the Scientific and Educational Project Prognosis Optima!, talked about the event,
There are not many projects that comprehensively test the student鈥檚 level. The Olympiad has three different format days, we call it the 鈥渢hree T concept鈥� for test, tournament, and creative. Each of these contributes to testing the participants knowledge in different ways every day. This complex format allows you to test the students鈥� knowledge and skills from different angles and identify the strongest, that is, identify the teams that were able to show themselves best in all formats. The winner is the team that handles all the tests better than the rest.
This year, two teams from NSU took part in the Olympiad: Mitochondrial Tycoons, which took 5th place, and the Laboratory of Temporary Transfusion that came in 6th. Teams from Tomsk, Saratov and Perm won prizes.
