The Olympiad is aimed at students of secondary and post-secondary schools studying to become freight forwarders and logistics technicians, and it aims to spark interest in logistics among young people. This is the third time the event is being organized. The first edition of the Olympiad saw 1,835 students participate, and the second (last year) had 3,644. This year, there are nearly two thousand more participants.
Packages containing tests and answer sheets will arrive at all registered schools on Thursday. However, school principals will only open them on the second day at 9:00 AM. This will mark the symbolic start of the 3rd National Logistics Olympiad. From that moment, students will have one hour to complete a multiple-choice test consisting of forty questions testing their knowledge in areas such as logistics terminology, order management skills, purchasing, supply and warehouse management, as well as logistics techniques and technologies. The questions 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, 2010), where they will face a multiple-choice test again. The final will take place at the headquarters of the Poznań School of Logistics (March 18, 2011). Participants will then solve open-ended tasks covering all the material that students of a specialized secondary school should master during four years of study.
Laureates and finalists of the Olympiad can expect not only exemptions from the written part of the vocational qualification exam but also free studies at the WSL and many material prizes. The best school will also be distinguished. The organizer of the Olympiad is the Poznań School of Logistics. The Honorary Patronage over the competition was taken by the Ministry of Infrastructure.
The substantive partners of the Olympiad are: the Institute of Logistics and Warehousing and the Polish Logistics Society. The Strategic Sponsor is the company CHEP. The venture is also supported by the following companies: Agrobex, DPD, Panopa, Dachser (gold sponsorship) and Still, TSLogistic, Epicor, Kuehne+Nagel, Raben, L-Systems, DHL Express, Kontenerowy.pl (silver sponsorship).
It is also worth remembering that our portal has prepared a free set of thematic articles for participants, which will certainly help them better prepare for the subsequent stages of the Olympiad.