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Egor is a winner of academic competitions in mathematics and informatics, as well as numerous programmer contests.

They include a West Virginia American Legion post that sponsors sports tournaments and academic competitions in local schools and several community organizations that provide remedial help and counseling to at - risk students.

June Kronholz wrote about the popularity of spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Education Next.

June Kronholz wrote about spelling bees and other academic competitions in the Summer 2010 issue of Ed Next.

Student teams will clash at academic competitions in disciplines even more important than sports: science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.

Not exact matches

The Competition Policy Council comprises top - ranked academics and practitioners active in the field of competitCompetition Policy Council comprises top - ranked academics and practitioners active in the field of competitioncompetition policy.

JDC West is a three - day competition that challenges students in the areas of academics, athletics, debate and social events.

«It's a big, robust, solid looking structure and the star shape ties in with the name of the product,» says MSU packaging instructor Dennis Young, who organizes this annual competition with Rick Bayer, GPI Academic Subcommittee Chair, as part of GPI lectures to MSU packaging students.

St. Ignatius was bullied out of the San Francisco's Academic Athletic Association because the league made a stand against S.I.'s non-San Francisco residents taking part in league competition.

In every issue, students write about matters closest to their hearts: love, secrets, dances, body image, sexual identity, relationships with parents, and also intense academic pressures, competition, loneliness, depression and fears for the future.

Third, acknowledging that some of the blame for the biased and one - sided media reporting on head injuries rests with some members of the scientific community who issue one - sided press releases and feed cherry - picked results about their findings to selected members of the media, the authors look to a day when the «harsh division and polarization» in the research community (an almost inevitable byproduct, unfortunately, of the intense competition for grant money in Concussion, Inc.), gives way to greater collaboration among researchers and a more «cordial discourse» between scientists via letters and responses to journal editors and back - and - forth debates at large academic conferences.

It was around that time that parents were bombarded with news stories about child abductions, academic competition, and, ultimately, competition in a global economy.

Cutting to the chase, he says the prestigious UTS — where he attended Grade 7 to 13, graduating in 1985 — was (at the time) a school that place much import on academic competition.

«Such gender differences may reflect the increased competition female scientists experience, old fashioned academic conventions with male exclusive networks, and / or our evolutionary history in which particularly male - male alliances were favoured,» says lead author Jorg Massen.

«Sometimes I think we all want to be successful and to find a shortcut to be successful, because the competition [for academic success in China] is so fierce.»

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

Selby adds that beyond seeking stellar academic records coupled with demonstrated leadership skills and motivation, the committee also looks for candidates who have made links with a French scientist in advance of the competition.

Now, government officials want to reduce the in - house promotions in an effort to increase academic competition and spread around the scholarly talent.

Given the pressures of competition for academic positions, to follow Einstein's path is to risk the price that he paid: unemployment in spite of abundant talent and skill at the craft of theoretical physics.

Sadly, these days such aspirations are overshadowed by fierce competition for papers, grants, and the tenured positions trainees need to build independent careers in academic research.

Their findings, published in the academic journal Animal Behaviour, are the first to indicate a positive correlation between in - group affiliation and the intensity of competition with perceived «outsiders» among primates.

Once again, due to the competition in Ontario schools, academics play the major role in admission selection.

In my first year at university, I heard about a business - plan competition for academics called New Venture.

For instance, a decrease in teacher - student closeness or school safety, or an increase in academic competition among peers, may lead to lower self - esteem and higher anxiety and loneliness among students.

And, although he does not anticipate «a gush» of new positions, Goldin says academic job prospects for physicists are «looking better» than they have in recent lean years — not only because of faculty retirement but also because fewer physicists are choosing to remain in the ivory tower, meaning less competition for openings.

Awards and honors include: the Society of Analytical Chemistry Silver Medal (Royal Society of Chemistry)(1981), British Technology Group Academic Enterprise Competition Award (1985), Prince of Wales Award for Innovation and Production (1989), Queens Award for Technological Achievement (1990), Rank Prize for Opto - Electronics (1991), the AACC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Chemistry in a Selected Area of Research (1998), and the Ullman Award (2006).

In general, academic research is a field of fierce international competition, but also a field of amicable international collaboration where researchers are commonly working together beyond national boundaries.

Academic year curriculum includes a number of interdisciplinary courses offered by Center faculty at the University of Washington, including Neural Engineering and NeuroVentures, Practical Ethics in Neuroscience and the Tech Studio Competition.

Australia About Blog Australian law academic specialising in competition (antitrust) law.

Australia About Blog Australian law academic specialising in competition (antitrust) law.

While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year - old son Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition.

Coleman proposed that schools should replace the competition for grades with interscholastic academic games, «systematically organized competitions, tournaments and meets in all activities,» from math and English to home economics and industrial arts.

Writing two years later in his 1961 book The Adolescent Society, he noted that educators had long been suspicious of academic competition, but that they unwittingly used it every day when handing out letter grades.

Kelley has spent most of the past six years cold - calling school administrators, flying around the United States, and figuring out how to build NCAA - style bracket competitions in academic subjects.

In October 2015, Arete (originally named Interstellar), a software program created by entrepreneur Tim Kelley, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop its NCAA tournament - style academic competition, which reached over 15,000 students at 600 schools in 201In October 2015, Arete (originally named Interstellar), a software program created by entrepreneur Tim Kelley, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop its NCAA tournament - style academic competition, which reached over 15,000 students at 600 schools in 201in 2014.

«Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve» will be available Wednesday, January 20 on educationnext.org and will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next, on newsstands by March 1.

In «Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve,» USA Today's Greg Toppo revisits James S. Coleman's oft - forgotten findings on teen culture, exploring how educators today can use academic competition to foster engagement, motivation, and student achievement.

June Kronholz wrote for EdNext about academic games and contests in «Competition Makes a Comeback.»

In «Game Plan for Learning,» Greg Toppo writes about how academic competitions motivate students.

The concerns of educators about the harmful effects of competition haven't slowed the growth in participation in bees, bowls, and academic Olympiads of all stripes.

Thus the title of his classic work, The Adolescent Society, published in 1961, the germ of which first appeared in the Harvard Education Review in 1959 as «Academic Achievementand the Structure of Competition.»

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

The Eco-Schools competition will run over the 2016 - 17 academic year over three terms, with a winner at the end of each term, and an overall winner announced in June 2017.

According to recently published research by David Card, Martin Dooley, and Abigail Payne, competition among these options is a significant contributor to academic achievement in Canada.

A student learns honesty in a deep and lasting way when a teacher explains why cheating undermines the academic mission, when a parent demonstrates the importance of telling the truth for family solidarity, when a sports coach discourages deceit because it defeats the purpose of fair competition, and when a friend shows why lies destroy the trust necessary for a close relationship.

Similar in spirit to the National Merit Scholarship Program, an annual academic scholarship competition conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, the NHRP was designed to recognize outstanding Hispanic high - school students and encourage them to enroll in college.

In the Summer 2010 issue of EdNext, June Kronholz discusses the recent comeback of these academic competitions and why some educators remain suspicious of them.

The program may have modestly increased academic performance in public schools, consistent with the theory behind school vouchers that they create competition between public and private schools.

Public schools students aren't harmed; in fact, we find evidence that they reap academic benefits due to competition.

ACT and SAT tests, purported to indicate college readiness are, in practice, competition contests to find the top 15 % of students, in terms of academics.