Biological Olympiads in the USSR

Authors

Vyacheslav Dushenkov, CUNY Hostos Community CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1993

Abstract

Biological Olympiads are the sort of intellectual competition widely spread nowadays, especially among high school students. Olympiads, often an integral part of the curriculum, stimulate the pupils' interest in acquiring knowledge and help to evaluate the level of their knowledge. Biological Olympiads in this country differ greatly from the science Olympiad in the USA. First of all, they include only biological material and can be compared only with USA Science Olympiad events such as "A is for Anatomy," "Bio-Process Lab," "Designer Genes" or "Don't Bug Me." Secondly, it is a personal competition with no official teams. Current Olympiads start at the school level and the winners take part in local and then federal Olympiads.

Comments

This work was originally published in The American Biology Teacher.