Saturday, 12 March hosted the First Phonetic Contest for School Students. The event took place in School 51 in Dashkovo-Pesochnya. It started at 10.00 and ended at about 2 30 p.m.  The Contest was a joint project of the Municipal Information Assessment Centre and the Educational Centre 'Additone'.
There were three main events in the contest:
1) Hometask - reading a poem or a piece of prose
2) News Broadcast
3) Best TV Show Host - a brief talk in front of the camcorder 
We had a bit over 40 participants from 16 schools. This event was the final one. Before that city schools were recommended to make preliminary selection in their quarters and chose the best candidates for the Final Event. I hope all of the participants liked the contest.
Of course, we understand that some of the things went bad. For example:
- it took us about an hour to sum up the results, identify the winners, fill in the Certificates;
- we hadn't arranged for refreshments and snacks (the total duration was actually about 5 hours, so the students were hungry)
- there should be more symbols and decorations because it has a flavour of a good show
Well, since I represented the Educational Centre 'Additone', I also awarded a few best ones with Diplomas of Participation in two nominations: 'Native Speaker' and 'Best TV Show Host'.

The photo report of the contest is going to be uploaded on the site in a few days.

Anyway, we will be happy to hear your comments and criticism in order for us to make a new similar contest better and more motivating.