This fall we are sending three bright Capital Region students Tula for a two-week educational experience. These enterprising young people earned the trip by winning one of our Education and Culture contests this spring.
Eleventh-grader Wyatt Smith of Clifton Park won the 2nd Annual Albany-Tula Alliance Student Essay Contest with his essay on the role the space race might play in maintaining world peace and technological cooperation.
David Connor and Alessandra Pratt were the winners of our first Russian-Studies Olympiad. The Olympiad is modeled upon a highly successful contest created last year by professor Sergey Pukhanov of Tula State University in 2010. The winners of that Olympiad traveled here this spring to participate as judges in the Capital Region competition.
Congratulations to Wyatt, David, and Lexi! All three students will be traveling to Russia in September 2011 with a chaperone from the Albany-Tula Alliance for a two week stay in our sister city, Tula. There they will meet with other students and have an opportunity to attend classes at Lev Tolstoy Tula State Pedagogical Institute.
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