60 Certification opportunities

Life is Tech! The (Life Is Tech) is a programming · IT camp / school for middle school students, high school students. For more information visit the official website here

Coursera is an online learning platform founded by Stanford professors that offers courses, specialisations, and degrees. It provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organisations to offer courses online. These are especially great for students to show their interest and commitment to a subject, display that they have been exposed to further study in the subject and reduces access barriers for students who are not able to access opportunities. It shows they have not allowed any physical or other limits stop them from seeking out self study.

The competition is open to all students who are in Year 11, 12, or 13 of secondary education, and medical students. All entries should be word processed. The maximum word count for entries is 1,500 words, excluding references. Only one entry per person is permitted. Entries to the competition must be unique. The deadline for applications is Friday 8th February 2019. All entrants will receive a certificate for their participation. One winner will be selected and will receive a winner’s certificate and a copy of all the books in our UGTM series worth over £250.

The students have to test their skills in all major areas of Earth sciences, including geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, terrestrial astronomy and environmental sciences. The theoretical examination includes problems which are supposed to measure the participants’ knowledge and understanding of Earth science areas. The practical examination consists of tasks which are designed to assess participants’ abilities to carry out scientific investigations in earth science inquiries. The examinations are prepared by specialists in Earth sciences and Earth science education, who also provide solutions and evaluation guidelines. Each delegation is composed of 4 students and 2 supervisors. The latter must be specialists in Earth science and Earth science education and capable of serving as members of the International Jury. The official language of IESO is English; however, the supervisors may translate the written examinations and related materials into to the participants’ native language. The main aim of the IESO is to encourage students’ interest and public awareness of Earth Science and to enhance Earth science learning. The IESO the organizers hope to pick out talented and gifted Earth science students and to promote the improvement of teaching Earth sciences at schools. Last but not least, the IESO is developed in pursuit of encouraging friendly relationships among young learners from different countries and promoting international cooperation in exchanging ideas and materials on Earth sciences and Earth sciences education. The IESO is the only International Olympiad that includes an International Team Field Investigation – ITFI. The last International Team Field Investigation focused on: developing stratigraphic sequences, evaluating living on the Mt. Mayon volcano, and evaluating the fault escarpment of the Chi-Chi earthquake. In 2010 in Indonesia the International Team Field Investigation focused attention on sustainability and use of the underground water. Thus, ITFI turns out to be a special IESO tool to encourage friendly relationships among young learners from different countries and to promote international cooperation. For more information please visit the official website here . 

An academic program for high schoolers at the International College of Economics and Finance (High School of Economics). The program consists of three concentrations: 1) Academic - for students interested in studying economics that are not participating in economics olympiads. 2) Olympiad - for students interested in participating in economics and finance olympiads. This curriculum prepares students to participate in both Russian and international olympiads. 3) Academic Plus - for students that have already participated in the ICEF Evening school. This curriculum expands students' knoweledge in mathematical analysis, statistics, programming, and investments. For more information visit the official website at https://icef.hse.ru/evschool/

Lectures, training sessions and games for school children of 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th grades wishing to get acquainted with the psychological sciences, the profession of a psychologist, prepare for competitions in psychology. This is a project for school children that provides kids an opportunity to get acquainted with different areas of psychology, learn about the career prospects of a psychologist (a psychologist is not just a person who asks if you “Want to talk about this?”) and find friends from different parts of Russia. For more information visit the official website at https://social.hse.ru/psy/sjp/

The Open Law School is organised by the Higher School of Economics. The school aims to give students legal knoweledge and in some cases experience both to prepare them for university studies and for life. The school also helps students prepare for olympiads in Law and moot courts. The school improves the level of legal culture and legal literacy among schoolchildren. For more information visit the official website at  https://pravo.hse.ru/school/about

MGIMO’s school of international diplomacy for youth. The school has multiple annual events for students from Russia and CIS. The school has locations all around Russia, where students can take classes in subjects ranging from human rights to international diplomacy. The school also has multiple international programs that take students to places like the UN and international courts. For more information visit the official website http://mgimo-school.ru/news

The CODDY® Team strives to provide children with a lot of coding knowledge and project management skills that they, being 15 years of age, would be able to: - Enroll into leading Russian or International University - Start their own business - Get a job with a Russian or an International IT-corporation. Courses the school provides not only develop technical skills of coding, creation of mobile applications, but also develops soft skills such as design-thinking, startup course, etc. Courses are held in offices of IT-corporations, where students immerse themselves in high-tech atmospheres. We constantly keep in touch with the parents so that we can work together towards our common goal of assisting the child in self-realisation and being successful. For more information visit the official website at https://coddyschool.com/

The All-Russian Children's Public Organization “Public Small Academy of Sciences“ Intellect of the Future is an independent, children's scientific creative public organization that unites children and young people, children's and youth associations in the territory of most constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Was created in 1984 initially as the Obninsk Scientific Society of Students, then since 1995 as the Interregional Children's Scientific Creative Public Organization (DTNO) “Intellect of the Future”, since 2006 it has become All-Russian, adding to title "Small Academy of Sciences." Intel "Future Intellect" implements a number of All-Russian educational projects, holds All-Russian and international conferences, also engages in publishing activities, trains teachers through full-time and distance education courses. Among the projects of the Academy: - All-Russian Philological School (Finland, Sweden); - All-Russian Distance Scientists School; - Remote school "COMPUTER XXI". - The Presidium of the Central Council of the organization is located in the city of Obninsk. For more information visit the official website at  http://www.future4you.ru Google Maps  https://goo.gl/maps/h4L7x63Kk3A2  

High quality training. Our center employs qualified teachers who are able to develop the child’s interest in the educational program with minimal effort. Not all the time will be spent at the computer. Children will draw and solve logical problems. Mastering communication skills is one of the main focuses. Training in the children's center will allow the child to learn how to carry out joint activities in a team. For more information visit the official website at http://school-palace.kz/3d-modelirovanie/

The purpose and objectives of the program: the intellectual development of children and teenagers; development of speech, memory, communication; teaching constructive speech skills based on logical reasoning. For more information visit the official website at http://school-palace.kz/intellekt/  

The Academic Decathlon is an educational competition designed for high school students from all academic achievement levels. Teams are comprised of 9 students, decathletes, who compete in 10 areas and an academic relay, Super Quiz, to demonstrate their knowledge and proficiency of a specific theme. Students participate in 30-minute objective tests covering Literature, Mathematics, Social Science, Science, Art, Economics, and Music separately. There is also a 50-minute essay, 3.5-4-minute prepared speech, a shorter 1.5-2-minute impromptu speech and a 7-minute interview for each student. A new topic of study is selected by the United States Academic Decathlon each year. Founded in 1968 by the late D. Robert Peterson, a former Orange County Superintendent of Schools, the Academic Decathlon continues to be an asset for all students involved. It provides a platform for students to utilize 21st-century skills while challenging themselves and each other to be creative, think critically, communicate and collaborate to be a winning team. The program teaches practical life skills such as time management, organization, and interviewing. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), has been involved with Academic Decathlon since 1981, hosting both state and national competitions at various times. LAUSD has sent the greatest numbers of high scoring teams to state competition, 14 in 2018, and holds the record for the most state titles with twenty-three. District schools have won the National title nineteen times as well. For more information visit the official website at https://btb.lausd.net/academicdecathlon

Microsoft Learn offers a variety of online courses including tutor led modules for all levels of coding and computer sciences. IT training is offered by Microsoft certified trainers and upon completion, students will receive industry recognised Microsoft certifications.

The main goal of the course is to teach teens to create their first successful business projects aimed at solving problems existing in society. For more information visit the official website at  https://britishdesign.ru/courses/cool-start-up/

The course is intended for teenagers seeking to understand fashion with history, development of culture and art. For more information visit the official website at  https://britishdesign.ru/courses/fashion-and-styling/

Drawing is one of the factors of creative development and development of critical thinking. Creative thinking simply decorates the personality, opens up new facets of life and fills it! For more information visit the official website at  http://school-palace.kz/artteen/  

The NTSI-SkART accelerator is a unique format of project incubator for schoolchildren of two categories: the older category - students aged 14-21 and the junior category JuniorSkart - students aged 7-13. The main objectives are: to popularize project activities and increase interest in the problems and prospects of the socio-economic development of the regions which they live in; to identify and develop creative abilities and passion for scientific, technical, research and design activities, systems engineering; to increase motivation to study sciences and ; the formation of key competencies, professionally significant personal qualities and motivation for the practical application of subject knowledge; creating the necessary conditions to support gifted students; scientific education and targeted vocational guidance of students; promotion of scientific knowledge; Intensive system support and development of the project participant under the accelerator program; formation of the composition of students and the bank portfolio of talented young people, the most capable and prepared to master the programs of higher professional education for technical universities; search for new ideas, fixing new trends in the development of intellectual, technical creativity and invention; the formation of early vocational guidance and vocational training of students in general educational and vocational training systems according to the standards and competencies of JuniorSkills and WorldSkills; search for teams and promising solutions for the needs of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) market; the involvement of young people in innovation activities carried out on the basis of the Youth Innovation Creativity Centers (TsMIT); identifying potential participants of the UMNIK  For more information visit the official website at   http://ntsirf.ru/

The question of what knowledge and skills an entrepreneur should possess is a stumbling block upon which many researchers have broken their spears. Knowledge of an entrepreneur, especially in one's field of activity, is very necessary, but there are enough examples of the fact that people who do not have any professional education outmatch the others with excellent professional education in this area. This means that there is no unequivocal answer to the question of what a successful entrepreneur should be. You can describe the personal potential that will significantly ease the path to successfully managing your own business. The program of the Academy is formed taking into account the competence, professional, leadership, intellectual, communicative, motivational and other approaches. The program allows you to address the development of schoolchildren management, entrepreneurial skills and business skills. From school age, it allows developing the social, legal, behavioral competencies of an enterprising person, enables schoolchildren to acquire modern knowledge and skills in building and developing their own business, master technologies, learn tactics of competition, cooperation, management, commerce. Entrepreneurial activities in an educational context will help students to become more flexible, self-confident, independent, teach them how to make decisions, plan, be more creative in their work, solve problems, navigate situations, interact with partners, have more social skills, information about business, better get to know yourself and learn how to manage projects and processes.   For more information visit the official website at  http://www.napdeti.ru/

Stamford is an online educational platform offering remote extended education for children in science and engineering areas. The platform helps to determine fields of interest early and further develop them. It was created for the purpose of promotion of natural sciences and fundamentals of nanotechnology, and also for advanced training of educators in e-learning. Stemford consists of e-courses, webinars, videos and other materials on STEM topics (Sciеnсе, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and nanotechnologies (nanomaterials, optics, electronics, medicine and pharmacology, energy efficiency, surface modification), remote network projects. Unique industry content from leading experts in high tech nimbly integrated into educational process. Along with educational content, procedural framework is provided as well. For more information visit the official website at  https://stemford.org/