EUREKA

The Interregional Children's Scientific Creative Social Organization

(ICSCSO) "INTELLECT OF THE FUTURE"

 

    ICSCSO "INTELLECT OF THE FUTURE" is a nongovernmental volunteer organization. Its principal activities are:

• Science (Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Computers, Biology, Biophysics, Ecology

• Engineering, Technics and Design (Inventions and Design, Radio Technics, Photography, Television, Journalism, Playthings, Studio-Design-School)

• Technics and Sports (Aircraft and Rocket Design, Shipbuilding Design, Radio Sport, Car Sport)

• Seminars, school, laboratories, sections, clubs, teams, individual programs. We deal with students of 12 - 18 years old (more than 3000 students and 65 teachers). There is a department of developing education for 4 - 5 - year old children.

 

Organization INTELLECT OF THE FUTURE" is an organizer of different educational and science - technical actions for students: competitions, olympiads, conferences, camps, exhibitions:

• Scientific Conference of Students " Youth, Science, Culture"

• Scientific and Educational Camps for gifted children and others.

Organization "INTELLECT OF THE FUTURE" with Center "EUREKA" is an organizer of scientific, methodological and pedagogical seminars and workshops for teachersthan from more 100 cities of Russia and NIS. Additional activities include: publishing of pedagogical literature, production of developing games, production of methodical equipment.

Organization "INTELLECT OF FUTURE" with Center "EUREKA" is Teenagers' an organizer and founder of the Obninsk Scientific Society (OTSS). celebrate 10th In 1998 we shall anniversary of OTSS. OTSS is a coordinator of scientific activities of students together with professors, scientists and teachers of Obninsk institutes, scientific centers and schools. Obninsk students are working in different fields of science and engineering and prepare reports about the results of their activities for the annual Conference.

 

Organization "INTELLECT OF THE FUTURE" with Center "EUREKA" is a a founder of the Russian Scientific Students (RSCS). Conference are: Departments of the Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Ecology, Design, Radio Technics, History, Economy, Pedagogics, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, Literature, Journalism.

 

Conference activities:

Committees of experts of each department have to choose the best reports of students (experts are professors, teachers and scientists of Obninsk and different cities of Russia), the best and interesting reports are announced at the Conference departments. Students can receive consultations of scientists and teachers and discuss scientific problems with other students.

 

Cultural activities:

 Intellectual games, meetings with scientists, excursions to scientific centers, excursions to Moscow, Kaluga and other cities of Russia, concerts, parties, dancing, and so on.

 

Methodological activities:

Seminars and workshops for students and teachers in problems of education and science, meetings and discussions of different educational projects and problem of cooperation, pedagogical experience exchange, pedagogical innovations.

 

More than 100 delegations (608 students ) from 85 cities of Russia, NIS and USA took part in Conference-1996. Conference was financed by the participants and partially by the founders. RSCS - 1998 will take place in Obninsk in March of 1998. Now we are preparing the program of Conference, determining founders, list of departments and participants, calculating future expenditures. We invite foreign participants and shall organize special cultural and educational programs. Materials of Conferences are published in the annual collection of papers.

 

International Cooperation

 

We have a great interest in international cooperation. We are ready to cooperate with students and teachers from foreign countries in scientific, educational and cultural fields, organize international camps and workshops. We are pleased to invite students and teachers to Obninsk.

 

We are ready to invite and meet delegations to the RSCS -1998 and organize special international departments and cultural programs. We would like to know your wishes and to hear proposals for cooperations and joint programs. If you have interest in these activities we are ready to give you additional information and official invitation. We invite you to visit Obninsk, Organization "INTELLECT OF THE FUTURE" and Center "EUREKA".

From EUREKA

 

Hello! My name is Olesya Kras'ko. I am fifteen years old. I study in the ninth grade of the Obninsk Free School. At the same time I attend the Youth - Cultural Centre "Eureka" to study journalism. "Eureka" is a wonderful place for young people to be taught and trained. If you want,you can study driving, or using video camera there, you can learn English language or design your own model of a plane. In "Eureka" you can see not only teenagers, but also many children, who learn to write and read there, play intellectual games and make nice handicraft works of paper and natural materials. I like being at "Eureka" and I have many friends there.

This March the Twelvth All - Russian Conference for Students "Youth, Science, Culture" took place in our Center. The Conference lasted for four days, but even during this short period of time I made many friends.

Many students from seventy two Russian cities arrived to Obninsk to take part in the Conference. On the first day teams from each city took part in the intellectual-creative game "Start", where students could get to know each other better and show their sports and intellectual abilities, their knowledge of Russian and English, Physics and Mathematics, Programming, Chemistry, Music and other sciences and arts. At the same day an exhibition (and a competition at the same time) "Golden Pencil" was opened. The students could see marvelous drawings and other works. Every evening the students talked and walked together, danced at the disco and exchanged addresses.

The Conference was my first experience in journalist activity: I took interviews and wrote an article for the first time. And it was for the first time in my life when I met so many bright people, who became my friends. One girl from Moscow taught me a fantastic dance "Drobushki".Everybody was satisfied with the Conference and wanted to return to Obninsk for the next time.

If you want to get more information about the Conference, I will name all the sections: Mathematics, Applied Programming, Systems Programming, Physics, Astronomy and Cosmonautics, Invention, Radio Construction, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, Botany and Zoology, Field Ecology, Industrial Ecology, Geography, Study of Local Lore, Archeology, History, Science of Law, Economics and Management, Pedagogics and Psychology, Linguistics (Russian language), Linguistics (Foreign Languages), Arts Study, Literature, Journalism. Every section had its own room for meetings and a number of reports were presented by students in every section.

 

I think reports from the Linguistics (Foreign Languages) section could be of some interest for you. The themes were: D.Salinger's novel "The Catcher In The Rye " and the analysis of its translations, the translations of the sixty-six Shakespeare's sonnets, the analysis of "The Book of English Humour", the establishment of presidency in the USA, the peculiarities of the stylistic structures: (metrics,stophical and phonetic structure) in Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!",trends in American English, and others.

My questions to you are: 1. What clubs and groups do your students attend after school? 2. Do such conferences take place in your city? What problems do you discuss? 3. What do you think about the possibility of coming to Obninsk to take part in the next Conference (spring 1998)?