Campus Report :
Bangladesh has won the silver medal in 2nd International Infomatrix Olympiad held in Almaty, Kazakhstan recently. 3 members Bangladesh team who took part in the Olympiad returned home with a Silver Medal. Nibras Iqbal and Shehzad Mannan, students of Int’l Turkish Hope School and their teacher Fatih Mollaalioglu, represented Bangladesh in the Olympiad.
Kazakhstan Institute of Technology, Ministry of Education and Suleyman Demirel University were the organizers of the Olympiad. 200 students from 27 countries competed in this Olympiad and Bangladesh won the Silver Medal, with a short movie project about addiction to Internet and computer.
The Olympiad was a three-day event, where on the first and second day students and outside visitors have roamed around the stalls and seen the projects that everyone had prepared. The students have worn their national dresses, and hanged their national flags on their stalls during the Olympiad. These were also the days when the judges of the selected categories have seen the stalls and marked the projects, based on the project itself, presentation, and lastly cultural influence on the dress up and stall of the students. At the closing ceremony on the third day, the prizes were distributed. Ministers, parliament members and other high officials of Kazakhstan Republic were present during the award ceremony.