The Estonian delegation started their travels towards South Korea on Sunday, 25 August 2019, for the 13th International Earth Science Olympiad.
Estonia will be represented at the Olympiad by Krete Roopõld, Lee Ann Madissoon and Markus Vaher from Tallinna Reaalkool (Tallinn Secondary School of Science) and Linda Kuusik from Gustav Adolfi Gümnaasium (Gustav Adolf Grammar School). The accompanying supervisors are the director of the Geological Survey of Estonia Alvar Soesoo and Senior GIS Specialist Sigrid Hade. The Estonian representative team was put together on the basis of results from the national Earth Science Olympiad, which took place in March this year under the leadership of the Tallinn University of Technology Department of Geology.
The participants of the Olympiad will be solving both theoretical and practical problems on geology, mineral resources, structural geology, environmental sciences, geophysics, astronomy, hydrology and related fields of Earth systems.
The director of the delegation, Alvar Soesoo: “We shall go to the Olympiad with good spirit. Last year Estonia participated in an International Olympiad for the first time, and we brought home four medals – three bronzes and one silver. In addition, we received diplomas in team work. We are very satisfied with the preparations with our young participants this year, and we expect them to perform well.”
Together with the Geological Survey of Estonia, participation in the Olympiad is supported by the Tallinn City, Tallinn University of Technology and Tartu University.
Geological Survey of Estonia was the co-ordinator of training the team for the International Olympiad, with the support by geologists of TalTech Department of Geology and Tartu University Department of Geology.
