Two teams in the two categories, ‘DATAWAVE’ from the National Trade and Banking High School, Sofia, and ‘TEAM-PRО’ from the Professional Secondary School of Economics and Management, Pazardzhik, won first place in the public hearing, the final stage for participation in the European round of the Statistical Competition. The second place went respectively to the team ‘ANDROMEDA’ from the NSMHS ‘Akad. Boyan Petkanchin’, Haskovo, in category A, and to ‘VELOCITY’, the team of the Secondary School for Foreign Languages ‘Vassil Karagyozov’, Yambol, in category B.
Five teams in each of the two categories qualified for the final round of the national-level competition. Students from Class X to XII are participating in Category A and Class VIII to IX in Category B. The final ranking, which depends on online voting and participation in the public hearing held on April 8 this year in Sofia. The winners of the national competition will represent Bulgaria at the European Statistics Competition finals in April - May 2023.
‘This is the sixth edition of the competition in Bulgaria, and for these 6 years we have had over 5 000 participants from all over the country. This shows sustainability in the promotion of statistics and participation in the competition’, said the chairman of the jury of the competition and Deputy President of the NSI, Assoc. Prof. Mihail Konchev, PhD. According to him, this year's results in the online voting marked a certain record: 23 000 votes were cast, which is 6 000 more compared to last year.
Members of the jury are Ms. Antoaneta Ilkova, Director of the Directorate Multi-Domain Statistics, Methodology and Cooperation Directorate at the National Statistical Institute, Ms. Vanya Grigorova, Economic Advisor to the President of the Trade Union ‘Podkrepa’, and Ms. Ekaterina Toteva, Journalist at the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.
According to the rules of the competition, this year the participating teams have to present a video project on the theme of ‘Well-being’. The winners of the two categories will present a 2-minute video at the European round. The round itself takes place in one of the Member States of the European Union in English and is judged by an international jury.
