The 2nd edition of the National Logistics Olympiad, organized by the Poznań School of Logistics, is beginning.
On Thursday, October 15th at 9:00 AM, nearly 4,500 students from 131 secondary schools across Poland will take part in the first stage of the competition. Over the next hour, each participant will answer forty questions related to logistics and freight forwarding. The best performers will qualify for the regional stage.
Last year’s inaugural edition of the Logistics Olympiad showed that the initiative is needed by students, schools, teachers, and the Poznań School of Logistics alike. As the Chancellor of the University, Assoc. Prof. Ireneusz Fechner, explained:
– We treat teachers as partners and students as the subjects of our interest. Thanks to the Olympiad, our contacts with secondary and post-secondary vocational education will be even closer, and participation in the Olympiad will be an additional reward for students choosing this profession.
It is clear that school principals appreciate these efforts. In the first edition, nearly 2,000 students from 83 schools registered for the school stage. This year, these numbers have already doubled.
Sealed envelopes containing tests and answer sheets will reach all registered institutions on Wednesday. School principals will open them only the following day at 9:00 AM. Breaking the seal will be the symbolic start of the 2nd National Logistics Olympiad. From that moment, students will have one hour to complete a single-choice test consisting of forty questions testing their knowledge of, among other things, logistics terminology, order management skills, purchasing, deliveries and warehousing, as well as logistics techniques and technologies. The questions will not be easy, as they were developed by the Scientific Committee, composed of a group of distinguished academic lecturers.
The best students will advance to the regional stage (December 10, 2009), where they will face a multiple-choice test. The final, however, will take place at the headquarters of the Poznań School of Logistics (March 19, 2010). Participants will then solve open-ended tasks covering all the material that students of a profiled secondary school should have mastered during their four years of study.
It is worth the effort. Laureates can look forward to not only valuable material prizes but also exemption from the written part of the vocational examination in the professions of logistics technician and freight forwarding technician, as well as free studies at the Poznań School of Logistics. The best school will also be distinguished.
– We are very pleased with such a large increase in interest in the Logistics Olympiad. Students are more willing to learn logistics while competing for valuable prizes, and this raises the level of education in the professions of logistics technician and freight forwarding technician. The Olympiad is part of the WSL program for secondary schools, within which the University has been supporting schools teaching these professions for years. It is also worth noting that after last year’s first edition of the Olympiad, this year we are supported by many companies for whom logistics education is important – says Wojciech Zalewski, press spokesperson for the Poznań School of Logistics.
The substantive partners of the Olympiad are: The Institute of Logistics and Warehousing and the Polish Logistics Association. The venture is sponsored by the following companies: Panopa Logistik Polska, Volkswagen Poznań, DPD Polska, Agrobex, DHL Express, L-systems, Elettric80, and Kuehne+Nagel. Media patronage was provided by: “Logistyka” magazine, “Polska Gazeta Transportowa”, “Logistyka a jakość”, “Transport i Spedycja”, “Nowoczesny Magazyn”, the logistyka.net.pl portal, Spedycje.pl, and Studentnews.pl.