MINSK, 26 March (BelTA) – The Belarusian national team that featured students of Belarusian State University won the International Ecological Olympiad of Universities of the CIS Countries, BelTA learned from BSU's press service.
The Belarusian team comprised undergraduate students of the BSU Faculty of Geography and Geoinformatics Oleg Symankov, Aleksandr Naumekno, Anna Kulinich, and a student of the BSU Faculty of Biology Nadezhda Lazerko. The team also included Pavel Yukhnyuk, a postgraduate student of Pushkin Brest State University. The students also placed first in the category of the best team presentation.
The BSU team prepared for the competition under the guidance of Head of the Department of Geographical Ecology Natalia Gagina, Associate Professor of the Department of Ecology and Methodology of Teaching Biology Oksana Nesterova, and Oksana Gryadunova, Associate Professor of the Geography and Environmental management of Pushkin Brest State University.
The team of the International Sakharov Environmental Institute of BSU took a 2nd degree diploma. It consisted of Alina Dolgaya, Viktoria Lesik, Aleksandr Chernyavsky, Valeria Tyshkevich, and Yelena Pristavka. Their teacher was Andrei Rodkin from the Department of Environmental Monitoring and Management. The team of Serikbayev East Kazakhstan Technical University also won a 2nd degree diploma and were the best in the essay competition “Ecologist's role in modern society”.
A 3rd degree diploma was awarded to students of Boris Yeltsin Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University.
Young ecologists had to demonstrate their theoretical knowledge and suggest solutions to the problem of waste disposal and recycling. The results of the olympiad were unveiled on 25 March. The final of this year's edition was web-based. The qualifying stages brought together around 20 teams from Belarus, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
