The Baikal interregional children's forum is starting in Irkutsk Region, the first event in a major educational marathon. Students will have lectures by famous scientists, workshops, discussion panels, contests, and more than 120 events in the region.

The program of the Children’s Forum includes participation in a number of events of the regional festival “Days of Science in the Baikal Region,” as well as attendance at public lectures by well-known science popularizers from Moscow and St. Petersburg. In addition, an educational and training program will be organized for high school students: participation in master classes, discussion platforms, competitions, and familiarization with the activities of educational organizations that have interesting experience in students’ research activities.
Let us recall that the Baikal Interregional Children’s Forum is the first event included in the program of the annual largest event for the education system.
More than one hundred and twenty events will take place throughout the region as part of the forum. The official opening of the forum will take place on April 1. Maksim Parfenov noted that, traditionally, the program includes exhibition and competition events: the finals of the regional competitions “Best Educational Institution of the Irkutsk Region” and presentations of advanced teaching experience by 18 of the best teachers of the Irkutsk Region. As part of the forum, a meeting of the Coordinating Council of the Department of State Policy in the Field of General Education “Organization of the Introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard for Preschool Education” will be held, along with a robotics festival and the event assembly “Additional Education.ru.” Also, in a new format, the public report of the Ministry of Education on its work in 2013 will be presented.
The forum will conclude with the summing up of the professional competitions “Teacher of the Year” and “Educator of the Year” on April 24.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region