{"id":98505,"date":"2017-01-18T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=98505"},"modified":"2017-01-18T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:47:10","slug":"final-competitions-of-the-syrian-science-olympiad-kicks-off-next-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=98505","title":{"rendered":"Final competitions of the Syrian Science Olympiad kick off next Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Under the patronage of Mrs. Asmaa al-Assad, the final competitions of the Syrian Science Olympiad to select the winners for 2016-2017 season will kick off next Sunday in Damascus with the participation of 327 students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the run-up to the finals, 49165 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade students from all provinces competed on schools level, with 3996 more students compared to the last year,&#8221; said Head of the National Commission for the Syrian Science Olympiad Imad al-Azb, adding that the tests were conducted in the subjects of math, physics, chemistry, IT and biology.<\/p>\n<p>He highly appreciated Mrs. Al-Assad&#8217;s special care to encourage creative capacities, help them face challenges and achieve international fame.<\/p>\n<p>Al-azb noted that tests will be held on January 21 \u2013 23, adding they include two rounds of tests in the morning and in the evening, three hours each.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the 11<sup>th<\/sup> and 12<sup>th<\/sup> grade students who ranked first in 2015 and 2016 finals will take part in the competitions, raising the total number of participants to 417.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Azb said that the winners will be announced in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> day at Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts and after which an honorary ceremony of the top three winners will be held.<\/p>\n<p>R.Raslan\/Mazen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 Under the patronage of Mrs. Asmaa al-Assad, the final competitions of the Syrian Science Olympiad to select the winners for 2016-2017 season will kick off next Sunday in Damascus with the participation of 327 students. &#8220;In the run-up to the finals, 49165 10th grade students from all provinces competed on schools level, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":98508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-education","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}