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.
| 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 |
History
editThe 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 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.