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2008 Tunisia
Sidi Bou Saïd
"The future is waiting for us..."
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Results IGEO 2006The 6th International Geography Olympiad held in Brisbane, Australia, from 28 June to 3 July 2006 in conjunction with the IGU Regional Conference was a great success. The Olympiad was hosted by the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland and the Australian Geography Teachers' Association. Kath Berg and her colleagues were the local organisers and did a wonderful job. More countries than ever participated in the 2006 Olympiad in Brisbane: Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China-Beijing, China-Taipeh, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. Each participating country consisted of a team of four students of secondary schools and two adults team leaders. Students’ ages were between 16 and 19 years old. Students were selected through a national competition. The Olympiad consisted of three parts: a written response test (40% of total marks), a substantial fieldwork exercise (40%), and a multimedia test (20%).
Click here for the top 5 of countries in the 6th International Geography Olympiad. Click here for all winners of gold, silver and bronze medals. Click here for a report about the 6th International Geography Olympiad. Click here for the 2006 multimedia test pictures, multimedia test questions and multimedia test answers. Click here for the 2006 written test questions. Click here for the resources of the written test. Click here for the written test work sheet 1. Click here for the written test work sheet 2. Clich here for the written test work sheet 3. Click here for the written test work sheet 4. Click here for the written test marking scheme. Clich here for the fieldwork test and the fieldwork marking scheme. Jacek Próchniak from Poland (see photo below) won the 6th International Geography Olympiad. Click on the Australia 2006 page of this website (section winners) and find more photographs of the 6th International Geography Olympiad made by Col Cameron (for more phographs see www.clevelandphotographics.com |
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