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In order to prove that science is an exciting and prospective branch for future workers, JSC "Latvian State Forests" welcomes students from grades eight to eleven to study, experiment, and explore at the Young Natural Scientists and Mathematicians School Festival, titled "Daba un zinatne – aizraujosi!" (Nature and Science – Exciting!) that will take place on October 3, at the new Academic Center for Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia in Riga's Tornakalns suburb.

In collaboration with the Education Center for Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Latvia, schools for young biologists, physicists, geographers, and chemists, Environment Academy, and Minor University of Mathematics, participants will xperience interesting science workshops, where they will study, experiment, and solve unconventional tasks, together with peers from all over Latvia. Furthermore, the students will be able to find out how it is to learn at the most modern education facility in the Baltic States – the new Academic Center for Natural Science of the University of Latvia at Tornakalns.

From now on, the classes will take place once a month individually at each of the "New Schools" in specific succession, offering a number of activities: competitions, lectures, practical lessons in a lab and outdoors, as well as experiments and research.

In its fourth year, "Daba un zinatne – aizraujosi!" is organized already for the fourth year by the Education Center for Natural Science and Mathematics of the University of Latvia, in collaboration with the university's School for Young Biologists and Chemists, Egils Birznieks' School for Young Geographers, Environment Academy, and Minor University of Mathematics.