The competition is for students in grades V-XII from the four municipalities of the Gabrovo region, as well as from Apriltsi, Troyan, Lovech, Letnitsa, Suhindol and Veliko Tarnovo. APGR conducts the competition for the fourth year in a row, and in this edition its scope is expanded by including settlements from the Lovech and Veliko Tarnovo regions.
Organizers of the competition are the Regional Branch of the Association of Professional Geographers and Regionalists (APGR) in the Gabrovo region and representatives of its Municipal Section in Sevlievo.
The event is held in cooperation with RUO - Gabrovo, RUO - Veliko Tarnovo and RUO - Lovech, with the courtesy of PGMET "Gen. Ivan Bachvarov" - Sevlievo, under the patronage of the mayor of Sevlievo municipality.
The competition aims to provoke interest among students in the environmental problems of their native region, to stimulate the improvement of their knowledge, creative thinking and skills for interpreting information from
various sources as a basis for the compilation of artistic, informational products and applications.
Developments are accepted in two thematic directions: "Environmental problems of the natural environment in my hometown" and "Environmental problems in my village". Acceptable forms of participation are: video, drawing and presentation.
The videos should be investigative journalism on the topic "The environment we live in - environmental problems and possible solutions", and materials can include students from eighth to twelfth grades.
Basic parameters of the video:
- Duration – from 3 to 5 minutes.
- The duration of the individual frames should be consistent with the possibility of optimal presentation of the main highlights in the clip;
- The frames must correspond to the information provided by sound or text;
- At the beginning of the video there must be a text with the name of the topic, the names of the participant, his place of residence, school and class;
- The content of the video must correspond to a specific thematic area of the competition, be credible and attractively presented;
The volume of a video with the above parameters usually exceeds the capabilities of standard sending to an electronic mailbox. This can be done through internet based large file transfer services like wetransfer.com, dropbox.com, drive.google.com, pcloud.com etc. Videos must be sent by email koleva.apgr.sevlievo@gmail.com no later than April 7, 2023 inclusive.
The video is sent in its final form. No additional submissions of corrected clips are allowed! The accompanying text in the letter when submitting the video should include the following information:
- The three names of the author(s), town, school and class;
- Contact details – email and telephone / postal and email address of the school.
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS WHEN SUBMITTING A DRAWING/PICTURE:
Only individual participation with one drawing/picture is allowed. The format of the drawing/picture should be not less than A5 (148 x 210 mm) for students of classes V-VII and not less than A4 (210 x 297) for students of classes VIII-XII.
Any student who has drawn a drawing/painting with his own hand and complies with the above requirements can participate in the competition by sending an electronic copy (scanned or photographed) in actual size. There are no restrictions on the drawing technique used. The nominees for the prize ranking of the first places will be further notified and invited to send to the specified postal address the originals of
their works in order to establish their authenticity, credibility and refine the final ranking.
Electronic copies of drawings/paintings entered must be sent to an email address koleva.apgr.sevlievo@gmail.com no later than April 7, 2022 inclusive. The drawing/picture is sent in final
species. Additional sending of corrected drawings/paintings is not allowed!
The accompanying text in the letter when sending the drawing/picture should include the following information:
- the three names of the author, town, school and class;
- contact details – email and phone / postal and email address of the school;
- name of the object depicted in the drawing/painting.
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS WHEN PRESENTING MULTIMEDIA
PRESENTATION:
Only individual participation with one multimedia presentation of students in the V-VII age group is allowed.
Main parameters of the presentation:
- to include up to 20 power point slides and a volume of up to 100 MB;
- unified style and layout of the slides;
- Each slide should have a title. The text of each slide should be on no more than 6 lines, each line should have from 4 to 8 words, and the sentences should be short and clear;
- Font size – 24–30 pt with a well-chosen, contrasting background color;
- In the first slide, write the topic, the names of the participant, his town, school and class;
- The text must be written correctly, meet the norms of the Bulgarian literary language;
- The images should not be more than 2 on one slide, should correspond to the text to which they refer and should be captioned;
- Use no more than 3 embedded videos for the entire presentation, with a maximum length of 10 seconds per clip;
- The information must be verified, geographically objective and attractively presented;
- The navigation of the presentation should provide automatic presentation of all available information in Slide Show style;
If the volume of the presentation exceeds the capabilities of sending it to a standard e-mail box, one of the available Internet-based computer services should be used to transfer large
files – wetransfer.com, dropbox.com, drive.google.com, pcloud.com, etc. Presentations must be sent to an email address koleva.apgr.sevlievo@gmail.com no later than April 7, 2023 inclusive.
The presentation is sent in its final form. No further submission of corrected presentations is allowed!
The accompanying text in the letter when sending the presentation should include the following information:
- the three names of the author, town, school and class;
- contact details – e-mail and telephone / postal and e-mail address of the school.
Participation is allowed only in one of the above forms. Developments presented on time are evaluated by an independent jury. The results and rankings will be announced by April 28, 2023.
The winners of each of the four forms of participation in the competition will be awarded vouchers from a large retail chain with the following values:
I PLACE – BGN 200
II PLACE – BGN 150.
III PLACE – BGN 100.
All students participating in the competition will receive certificates of participation. Additional incentive prizes are also provided for original student ideas, as well as for teachers who have guided the participation of ranked students.
The award ceremony will be held in May at the host school PGMET "Gen. Ivan Bachvarov".
