Omsk Giftedness Development Center
| Omsk Giftedness Development Center | |
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 Front view of the main building | |
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Omsk, Andrianova str., 4 Russia | |
| Coordinates | 55°1′36″N 73°16′51″E / 55.02667°N 73.28083°E |
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| Type | free state school, namely: special status since 2015; gimnasium since 2007 |
| Motto | Learn to learn (Russian: Учись учиться) |
| Established | 1962 |
| School district | Neftyaniki |
| Superintendent | Omsk State University |
| Headmaster | Svetlana Boykova |
| Faculty | Irina Chernyavskaya, Vladimir Davydenko |
| Grades | 1-11 |
| Number of students | 834 (2015) |
| Website | гимназия117 |
Omsk Giftedness Development Center (or, officially, Multidisciplinary Educational Center for Giftedness Development, Russian: Многопрофильный образовательный центр развития одарённости) is a secondary education institution in Russia, specified in the training for science olympiads in different school subjects, such as mathematics and physics. It is placed in the Neftyaniki District of Omsk.
History[edit]
The center was opened in 1962 as Omsk State School 117 (Russian: Средняя общеобразовательная школа № 117), a usual soviet secondary school. The school has the quarters on Andrianova str., 4, in the Neftyaniki District (which is, in practice, a satellite town of Omsk, built for Omsk Oil Refinery).[1]
In 2002, several specialists in the training for science olympiads left Lyceum 64, then a leading educational center of Omsk, and chose to work in the school 117. This gave an impulse for the development of the school: in 2004, an agreement about the cooperation with Omsk State University was made, and a new headmaster, Svetlana Boykova, was appointed;[2] in 2007, the school received the status of gimnasium;[1] in 2008, there were two winners of International Mathematical Olympiad, Nikita Kudyk[3] and Konstantin Matveev.[4]
In 2015, it obtained a special status in the educational system of Omsk Oblast, becoming a Multidisciplinary Educational Center for Giftedness Development.[5] It meant that it now trains students from the whole region, accommodating a dormitory to include students from other cities.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "О школе" [About school] (in Russian). Official site of the center.
- ^ "Возьмемся за руки, друзья. Школа № 117 и ОмГУ подписали договор о сотрудничестве" [School 117 and Omsk State University made an agreement on cooperation] (in Russian). DO-info/ДО-инфо. 2004-09-27.
- ^ "IMO results in 2008". Official site of IMO.
- ^ "IMO results in 2007". Official site of IMO.
- ^ "Ускорение. Превращение омской гимназии в областной центр развития одаренности — только начало" [Accelerating. Omsk gimnasium becomes regional center for giftedness development] (in Russian). Uchitelskaya Gazeta/Учительская газета. 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Омскую гимназию № 117 окончательно передали области" [Omsk gimnasium 117 has at last become regional] (in Russian). Omsk-Inform/Омск-Информ. 2015-06-09.