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The festival "WEEK OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 2012". Voronezh 20-30 March 2012
The festival "Week Informatics" is held at the Voronezh State Pedagogical University since 1999.
From 20 to 30 March 2012 the festival was held in VSPU. It was XIIIth Festival "Week of Computer Science." Every year the Festival engages in its activities more and more participants. This year, in addition to school children and university students there were students of secondary vocational institutions.
Each student and the student who is interested in informatics and information and communication technologies may select one or more activity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in computer science. And the students - future teachers - will be able to demonstrate talents in the field of computer science teaching methods in schools.
The main objectives of the festival are: • identification of gifted and talented students and schoolchildren and their involvement in the activities of the festival; • the implementation of creative abilities of young people, creating conditions for maximum use of previously acquired knowledge, for the atmosphere of science prestige and creativity; • development of the foundations of intellectual creativity, increase motivation to learn new knowledge; • broad involvement of the students to the use of computer technology in the curriculum and extracurricular activities; • the search for new methods and ways of working with talented young people; • identify and support talented young people in project activities using computer technology.
The representative from Russian Mozilla Team presented two lections – for students and schoolchildren first and teachers second:
1. Open Web - Web open for everyone. 2. Web 2.0 for students learning.
Mozilla Russia Team presented branded gifts (stickers, bages, trinkets and cards) to all festival members, all activities were provided with Mozilla.Russia roll-ups and the winners in different contests had got special packs – t-shirt, mug and bag with Mozilla logo.
Voronezh - is a city and the administrative center of Voronezh Region, Central part of Russia, the one of the biggest student’s cities of Russia.
The Voronezh State Pedagogical University is one of the biggest universities in Central part of Russia, established in 1931.