Sarajevo high school students win the Knowledge Olympiad organized by Cambridge

The team from the First Bosniak Gymnasium won first place at the International Knowledge Olympiad “Owlypia Globals” organized by the University of Cambridge.

57 teams from all over the world participated in this international challenge, and the motto of this year’s Olympiad was “Leadership, inspire change”. The team from the First Bosniak High School included Faruk Softić, Amna Fejzić and Haris Junuzović.

All participants previously passed individual qualifications by winning a gold, silver or bronze certificate at the Owlypia online knowledge quiz, which was held on August 8, 2020, and had about 1000 participants from all over the world.

Owlypia Globals lasted from August 22nd to 24th and consisted of five challenges: Pen-Down challenge: group essay writing on a given topic, Impromptu challenge: public speaking competition without prior preparation, Speech-Craft challenge: group debating, 3 on 3, Knowledge challenge: individual quiz on general knowledge from a given group of subjects, and on knowledge from previously studied materials, and Team Spirit challenge: individual quiz on knowledge from a series of books, articles, TED talks, films and individual research.

The team’s mentors were professors Azamela Nezović and Azra Begić-Tabaković.

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