Georgian National Team Successfully Competed at the International Young Naturalists' Tournament
Members of the Georgian national team participated in the 8th International Online Tournament of Young Naturalists, demonstrated excellent results, and won gold medals.
The gold-medal-winning team includes Komarov School students: team captain Nika Maltsev, Irakli Mirotadze, Sandro Vachadze; Vekua School students: Nene Zhvania, Anri Dartsmelia, Levan Lolashvili; and their supervisors: Diana Sokhashvili and Giorgi Bakhtadze.
Within the framework of the tournament, Georgian students achieved high results in multiple categories: Nene Zhvania delivered the best opposition among the participants, Levan Lolashvili authored one of the best reports, and Nika Maltsev's semifinal report was named the best across the entire tournament.
The 2020 tournament was held online from October 30 to November 3, with 14 teams from 7 countries participating: national teams from Switzerland, Croatia, Romania, and Georgia, as well as 4 teams each from Russia and Greece, and two teams from Kazakhstan.
The Tournament of Young Naturalists is an intellectual competition intended for students under the age of 17, which helps young people develop teamwork and creative working skills. The tournament showcases students' abilities to successfully solve problems posed in exact and natural sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, informatics). The tasks offered within the framework of the competition concern problems that require both experimental and theoretical research from the participants.
Within the scope of these activities, Georgian representatives rank among the frontrunners and achieve significant success. At the very first tournament, held in 2013 in Eskişehir, Turkey, the Georgian national team was awarded silver medals; from 2014 to 2016, the team won gold medals three times in a row; and from 2017 to 2019 (Nanjing - China, Tbilisi, and Minsk - Belarus), the Georgian national team earned bronze medals. To date, Georgia maintains its leading position in the world ranking of young naturalists.
