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Title

The History of the International Astronomy Olympiad

Abstract

The International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO) was founded in the 1990s as an annual scientific educating event for students of the junior high school classes. Starting from 4 teams at the 1st event in 1996 the Olympiad includes more than 20 countries nowadays. The style of the problems of IAO is aimed at developing the imagination, creativity and independent thinking. They stimulate the students to recognize the problem independently, to choose a model, to make necessary suppositions, estimations, to conduct multiway calculations or logic operations. The Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad was founded as a ”daughter” (”affiliated”) olympiad in
system of the International Astronomy Olympiad in 2005.

Date

01/01/2011

Type of Publication

Conference Item

Author(s)

Gavrilov, Michael G. | Salnikov, Igor V. | Vaesterberg, Anders R.

Editor(s)

Valls-Gabaud, D. | Boksenberg, A.

Content

No Astronomy Content

Methodology

Blank

Research Setting

Other | School

Institution(s)

ISSP of Russian Academy of Sciences | Simferopol Society of Amateur Astronomers | European Association for Astronomy Education

Book Title

The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture. Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 260, 2009

Peer-Reviewed Status

Not Peer-reviewed

Publisher

International Astronomical Union

Volume

E23

Conference Proceeding Type

Conference Published Volume

Nation(s) of Study

Russia | Ukraine | Sweden

Language

English

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