Support Program for Gifted Students

A summer camp for the 7th–9th grades in 2007, the Moscow Intellectual School.

This program is designed to support the projects of the best organizations that work with gifted children.
Beginning in 2010, the Dynasty Foundation in cooperation with the Modern Natural Science Foundation is conducting a competition for educational projects in the framework of the support program for working with school children.

The Dynasty Foundation cooperates with the Avant-Garde All-Russian Physics and Mathematics Correspondence School, the Moscow Intellectual School, the Gluon International Intellect Club, the Center for Continuing Mathematics Education, and Institute of New Technologies.

Of the 8,000 students who study at the Avant-Garde School, 95% go on to study at technical universities. More than 20,000 children from all over Russia take part in the Interregional Math and Physics Olympiads organized by the school.

Since 2006, the Foundation has supported the annual Intel/Avant-Garde All-Russian Applied Science Conference for Gifted School Children, which is organized by the Avant-Garde School, Intel Corporation, and Chemistry Lyceum No. 1303. The conference is attended by around one hundred high school students from dozens of Russian and Ukrainian cities.

As part of the Year of Philanthropy, the Gluon International Intellect Club joined with the Union of Russian Philanthropic Organizations to run an international program entitled “Gifted Children Are Russia's Future.” Its goal was to support gifted children regardless of their social status.

The Dynasty Foundation provided funds for one part of this program—Intellectual Marathon 2006, the fifteenth anniversary Olympiad for gifted children from Russia, the CIS, and Europe (Protvino, October 2006). It also sent five Russian high school students to Children. Intellect. Culture, the eleventh international festival for gifted high school students and talented university students (Athens, Greece, May 2007).

Starting in 2009, the Dynasty Foundation is supporting the project Global School Laboratory (GlobalLab) developed by the the International Laboratory for Advanced Education Technologies (ILAET) with the participation of the Institute of New Technologies (INT).

Competition for educational projects for school children

Beginning in 2010, the Dynasty Foundation in cooperation with the Modern Natural Science Foundation is conducting a competition for educational projects in the framework of the support program for working with school children.

The goal of the competition is to support projects directed at developing creative abilities and educating school children who show interest and have abilities in physics, mathematics, and biology.

The educational projects—conferences, seminars, lecture courses, seasonal schools, clubs, competitions and tournaments, school children research organization projects—are accepted for the competition.

Russian governmental and municipal educational institutions and also nonprofit organizations whose activity is connected with science and education can participate in the competition.

The amount of requested financing for a given project should not exceed one million rubles.

The first competition was announced in February 2010.

Global School Laboratory

GlobalLab is a virtual laboratory for school children created on the basis of modern internet technologies.

A large-scale net project is now being conducted involving about 100 Russian schools and several schools from neighboring countries.

The project is based on a unique integrated course of studies that combines natural science, biology, and physical geography themes.

In contrast to the traditional school method of covering the material by memorizing a vast number of concepts and definitions, a learning media is formed in GlobalLab using information technologies. This allows students to study new material through scientific observations and group research projects.

The main components of the GlobalLab learning media maximally approach those used by scientists in their activity.

The motivation for learning is stimulated in children by bright multimedia manuals based on well-illustrated educational material. After absorbing this material, students are involved in discussions of questions of natural science.

The project is accessible for fifth- and sixth-graders, primarily those who have expressed interest in knowing about the surrounding world.

GlobalLab creates new opportunities not only for students but also for talented teachers who would like to become leaders of their students' research projects.

This project is an attempt to reform school science education. For the first time in the world, it introduces net research methods directly into the program of study in schools.

To learn more about the project and to join, visit the GlobalLab site.