Residents of Sevastopol can take part in a lecturer competition from the Knowledge Society

Participants of “Knowledge. Lecturer – 2024″ will have a chance to get into the regional teams of lecturers of the All-Russian Society “Knowledge” and regularly speak at local educational events, and 50 winners of the main selection will receive 250 thousand rubles each to promote their content, schoolchildren will receive trips to the Artek International Children’s Center.

Citizens of the Russian Federation over 14 years old can apply on the project website from April 24 to June 30, 2024, schoolchildren until June 3.

The main selection will begin with a training course on public speaking. Course graduates must upload a video business card and a letter of recommendation from government authorities, public associations, educational organizations, the scientific community or business by July 5.

The regional stage will take place from August to November: the contestants will have to organize their own lectures with the support of branches of the Knowledge Society. There are 14 lecture topics to choose from, one of them – “family values” – is dedicated to the Year of the Family in Russia. The contestants’ performances will be held before an expert council in an online format.

“Over three seasons, the League of Lecturers has shown its relevance. The number of participants in the project increased manifold from year to year, and the expectations of the audience grew along with it: the lecturer of the Knowledge Society must have outstanding speaking skills, deep expertise in his field, and the ability to organize events. Therefore, the selection of regional lecturer teams has become more serious: it now includes training, interviews and testing of organizational skills. The overall leaders will go to the three-day finals in Moscow in 2025,” said Maxim Dreval, General Director of the Russian Society “Znanie”.

Selection in the category “Schoolchildren” will end in July: contestants will receive training in public speaking, preparation of presentation materials and interviews with experts. 175 finalists will go to the specialized shift of Knowledge. Lecturer at the Artek International Children’s Center from September 25 to October 16, 2024.

Last season, Irene Andrutskaya, a social entrepreneur, was among the finalists from Sevastopol. And one of the winners of the “School League of Lecturers” – a special track for lecturers aged 14 to 17 years – was a student from Secondary School No. 54 named after Yu.A. Gagarin, Sevastopol Egor Enkin.

Author of the material: News Agency “Sevastopol”

Author of the photo: All-Russian Society “Knowledge”