The Minister for Ecology, Artem Sidorov, met with a pupil of the 10th form who elaborated a project on determination of toxicity of water environment

Today, the Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Artem Sidorov, met with a winner of the Republican stage of the “Junior water contest” Olga Timirbaeva and the mentor of the contest, Director of the Institute of Ecology and Subsurface Resources Management, Dmitry Ivanov. Organizational matters of participation in the final stage of the “Russian National Junior Water Contest-2014” that will be held on April 20 - 25 in Moscow were discussed during the meeting. The Minister highly praised the potential of the pupil from Tatarstan and acknowledged relevance of the project “Determination of toxicity of water environment with regard to behavioral performance of Daphnia magna using the system of computer vision” elaborated by Olga Timirbaeva.
Olga Timirbaeva is a pupil of the 10th form of the “Educational Center No. 178”, a pupil of the Children’s Activity Center “Tankodrom” of Sovietsky district of Kazan, and a winner of the All-Russian Ecological Olympiad of Pupils in 2014.

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