Student Olympics of Creativity

As a part of the II. Inventor's Olympiad the MAFE organised the Creativity Student Olympiad in Budapest, during which the tasks to be solved and the pertaining means were given to the participant students of 6 to 14 years on the spot directly before the start.

The jury appreciated the inventiveness shown in the job done and the level of realisation of the creation.
Mr. Risto KURKI (Finland) was the president of the jury.

The aims of the Creativity Student Olympiad:

-to provide a proper forum of competition, according to the Olympic idea, for the youth, the inventors of the future, who wish to create,
-to encourage the creativity.

The Creativity Student Olympiad took place in Budapest, in the Olympic Hall.
The competition has been realised between 1000 and 1400 o'clock on 7 May, 2000.
The relatives of the exhibitors of the Olympiad were entitled only to take part in the competition.

The participants (students of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary and Slovakia) were competing in two age-groups:

I. age-group (6 to 10 years), 12 participants:
Tasks:
Flower composition for Mother's Day (using artificial flowers, decoration materials and evergreen branches)
Toy to your brother/sister (using magnetic building blocks)

Winner: Máté NOVKOV

II. age-group (11 to 18 years), 14 participants:
Tasks:
Sandwich for your friend (from various foodstuff)
Presentation and further development of a selected Olympiad invention (drafting instruments, do it yourself material, hand tools)

Winner: Miss Katalin EGELY