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Posted on 06.18.2015, Engish version 09.10.2015.

Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education

First multidisciplinary tournament for school students, 2015

Information message

• We invite all school students to take part in the tournament. Participation is voluntary and free of charge. (Also, costs of participants are not compensated.)
• The main goal of the tournament is to give the participants food for thought and encourage interest to serious pursuits.

  Tournament organizers have set themselves the task of preserving the traditions of the Lomonosov Tournament, held annually since 1978 and had the same basic purpose.

  The results of participation in the Tournament may help to notice talented students who have shown interest in various subjects, and encourage educational organizations and enthusiasts to organize them external activities. Formal side of the process i.e. participants evaluation, setting awarding criteria and winners declaration is not the main goal of the tournament.

• Tournament working language is Russian. Participants are also offered an English version. The Organizing Committee will be happy to help to organize the tournament in any other language.
• The form of the tournament is based on the traditions of the Lomonosov Tournament and its online version.

  Participants are offered tasks in mathematics, mathematical games, physics, astronomy, earth sciences, chemistry, biology, history, linguistics, literature. Tasks are performed for students of grades 5–11 and can be quite difficult for those who are studying in primary school.

  Two forms of participation is offered an individual participation or within a team. Teams are formed by mutual request of the participants.

  Basic type of participation is online participation.

  We encourage schools, universities, and other educational organizations having available classrooms and willing to host a tournament to organize the tournament in person. Following the traditions of the Lomonosov Tournament it is recommended to hold a contest for each subject in its audience (participants can move freely from audiences).

  • The formal reason for organizational form and the tournament name choice.

    In connection with recent adoption of the Order of the Olympiads and its subsequent amendments a set of additional restrictions and requirements was imposed on organizing committee and participants. A second round became mandatory for all participants including non-graduate students. Moreover restrictive quotas were set for all participants including non-graduate students. Thus a contradiction between main goals of the Tournament and newly imposed rules and regulations arose.

    At the same time according to the order of the Olympiads its rules are not applicable to tournaments having less than one year history. Thus Olympiad, organized for the first time, can be carried out without all mentioned restrictions. (In the future, the organizers are planning to choose a convenient and legally correct form of the Tournament that can be not included into the List of Tournaments and Olympiads and won't be affected by regulations mentioned above).

• Planned Event Calendar

  Events	Date	Venue
  Registration of individual participants	09.01.2015–10.18.2015	http://konkurs2015.online.turlom.info
  Registration and formation of teams	09.01.2015–11.20.2015	http://konkurs2015.online.turlom.info
  Introduction to the tournament (access to demonstration tasks)	09.01.2015–11.20.2015	http://konkurs2015.online.turlom.info
  Tournament works publication	10.18.2015 00.01 Moscow time	http://konkurs2015.online.turlom.info
  Tournament for individual participants	10.18.2015 00.01 – 10.19.2015 05.00 (Moscow time) (Recommended attending time is 5–6 hours. Participants can start at any time within the given interval.)	http://konkurs2015.online.turlom.info (online participation)
  	10.18.2015 Scheduled of venues	Place of intramural participations
  Team tour	10.19.2015–11.20.2015	http://konkurs2015.online.turlom.info (online participation)
  Publication of solutions and comments	January 2016	http://konkurs2015.turlom.info
  Results publication	January–February 2016	http://konkurs2015.turlom.info/rezultaty
  Appeals	February–March 2016	http://konkurs2015.turlom.info/appeal
  Results summarizing and publication	March 2016	http://konkurs2015.turlom.info

  From the date of on-line publication of results successful participants are given a diploma in electronic form: http://konkurs2015.turlom.info/gramota-online

• Planned activities of the organizers of the Tournament
  • Tournament online system support 09.01.2015 – 01.04.2016.
  • Participants' on-line registration.
  • Tournament works publication on 10/18/2015.
  • Preliminary distribution of works for intramural tournament for copying.
  • Participants' on-line works verifying.
  • Participants' non-electronic works verifying.
  • Participants informing on their results.
  • Appeals processing.
  • Informing participants about the outcome of their appeals.
  • Summarizing and publishing the results of participation.
  • Successful participants diploma issuing in the electronic form.
  • Publication of the tournament tasks, decisions and comments on-line
• Tournament organizers are not planning ...
  • Tournament organizers do not plan to establish the identity of participants in the tournament, collect, store, process and publish personal data of participants (the participants' results will be considered by the data that indicate the participants in its sole discretion).
  • Tournament organizers do not plan to take any special action to ensure that holders of diplomas for successful participation (as well as other participants in the tournament) could get any perks and benefits (including those relating to admission to universities, both in the academic year 2014/2015 and later) as a result of participation in the tournament.
  • Tournament organizers do not plan to issue any official documents confirming the receipt of a diploma for successful performance and participation in the Tournament of the individual participant (as it does not plan to establish and verify the identity of the participants).
  • Tournament organizers do not plan to take any action for inclusion in the list of the Tournament Olympiads in accordance with the Order of the Olympiad (as in the 2015/2016 academic year and in the future).
  • The organizers of the tournament, making everything in their power to high-quality event, however, does not plan to give any guarantees of compliance with the content of the Tournament, organizational or technical point of view, any standards.

We invite you to take part in the tournament and wish you success!

We invite students and more senior colleagues to help to organize the tournament and verfiy works!

E-mail address of the organizing committee: konkurs2015@turlom.info