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The second round of LVM Forest Olympics contest has finished, those 10 teams who will meet on the 26 April in the LVM Nature Park in Tērvete have been selected, they will compete for the main prize – educational expedition abroad.

Already in the autumn, children were invited to go into nature to get inspiration from it to create an educational outdoors game, whose basic rules are explained in a one minute long video tutorial. From 15 team works, which were selected for the second round of the contest, judges selected their favourites, but supporters of the teams were encouraged to vote for their favourite games in the “Izzini mežu, Latvija” Facebook page and also on the Youtube channel. Five favourites of the judges were accompanied by those teams who received the largest number of likes from Youtube and Facebook in total.

In this year's LVM Forest Olympics final will meet these teams:

 

School	Name of team	Name of game
Aizpute Secondary School	Vides pētnieki	Izmeklēšana mežā
Carnikava Primary School	Carnikavas pamatskolas 8. klase	Noziegumam pa pēdām
Krāslava Elementary School	Možie	Bagātību sargi
Nīkrāce Primary School	Sprunguļi	Sprunguļgolfs
Ventspils Secondary School No. 4	Lielie Gailīši	Meža karte
Irlava Secondary School	Meža skudras	Izaudzē koku
Jelgava Secondary School No. 6	Meža meistari	Meža meistari
Jelgava Primary School No. 2	Čiekuri	Paslēpes ar Latviju
Ventspils Secondary School No. 4	Veiklie pētnieki	Veikls un gudrs
Aizkraukle Regional Secondary School	Imperium Silva	Meža Eldorado

 

The aim of the LVM Forest Olympics is to promote creative and healthy studying outside the Latvian school premises – in fresh air, and also to teach children an understanding about Latvia’s largest renewable resource – forest.  For the second year, the task of the competition is to create an educational outdoor game about forest, using materials found in nature, this game must not only be played with classmates but also a video tutorial with instructions needs to be made, so that those materials would help to play this game by children and teachers of other schools.