In this article, we propose the use of Olympic didactic situations (SDO), such as those used in National Science Olympiad (ONC), Brazilian (OBC), among others, an alternative for teaching kinematics, component Physics, Basic Education. Reflecting on need to work with kinematics a more attractive and challenging way, which arouses interest students. Questions from Olympics tests were analyzed ab...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence of coaches and team cohesion of athletes in the 5th olympiad of female students of payame noor universities in 2011. the method of this study was correlation, and application regarding the aim which was conducted as a field study. the population consisted of all coaches (n=86) and athletes (n=1068) p...

We determine all triples (a, b, n) of positive integers such that a and b are relatively prime and nk divides an+bn (respectively, an bn), when k is the maximum of a and b (in fact, we answer a slightly more general question). As a by-product, we see that, for m,n 2 N+ with n 2, nm divides mn + 1 if and only if (m,n) = (2, 3) or (1, 2), which generalizes problems from the 1990 and 1999 editions...

The 22nd World Computer Chess Championship started on June 27, 2016. Six programs participated in a double round robin tournament, see Table 1 (CPW 2016a-u; Krabbenbos et al., 2016). The tournament took place at Leiden University and was organized by the ICGA, LIACS and LCDS. It was sponsored by Google, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the municipality of Leiden, Leiden University, its Faculty of...

The Botzone Intelligent Agent Platform is an online intelligent agent competition platform. The Botzone is designed to evaluate the intelligence of agents through competitions between them. The Botzone provides a context for users to learn basic AI knowledge and apply a variety of AI algorithms. It has been used as a teaching system and has served National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) as a com...

As a student, participation in the 24-h Estafette Run was something that was decided upon the day before the start; however, as Bucks Fizz (former British Eurovision triumphs, not champagne!) would suggest; ‘now those days are gone.’ Nowadays, with the body no longer as fit as the mind, one tends to take a more considered approach. We recommend that instead of waiting for the passing of another...

This paper proposes the Education Design Experiment (EDE) as an instructional framework for robotics education and demonstrates how it is implemented in the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest (TCFFHRC) projects. The overarching goal of the EDE is to examine how best to implement, evaluate, and conceptualize the robotics education process while designing, building and operating rob...

This is the problem of 8$^\mathrm{th}$ International Experimental Physics Olympiad (EPO). The task EPO8 to determine Plank constant $\hbar=h/2\pi$ using given set-up with LED. If you have an idea how do it, it and send us result; skip reading detailed step by instructions increasing difficulties. We expect participants follow suggested items -- they are instructive for physics education in gene...