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Students of Russian schools won six awards from the International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO2022), the website of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation reports. The tournament, which was held for the 19th time. It was hosted by the capital of Colombia.
The Russian team included six people, none of them was left without a medal. Members of the Russian team became winners five times - Muscovites Maxim Chaika and Mikhail Petrov, Ekaterina Dorofeeva from Saransk, Albert Semyonov from Kazan and Gordey Golubtsov from the Moscow region got gold medals. Another representative of the Moscow region - Andrey Konstantinov - became a silver medalist.
As part of the Olympiad, 20 gold medals were played. Young Russians became fourth. They also took second place in the competition for solving an experimental problem.
The Olympiad included three stages: test, theoretical and experimental. Each of them included tasks in three subjects: physics, chemistry and biology.
Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov highly appreciated the well-coordinated work of the children and their teachers. Russian students show excellent results in tournaments in exact and natural sciences, the head of the department added.
Russkiy Mir
