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The second round of LVM Forest Olympics has finished and 10 teams have been selected. They will meet on 27 April in the finale of LVM Forest Olympics in the LVM Nature Park in Tērvete and will compete for the main prize – nature expedition in Austria!

From the 15 team works that were put through to the next round, judges selected their favourites, and also viewers and supporters could vote for their favourite game tutorial videos on Facebook and on Youtube. Altogether, social networks received more than 18 thousand votes.

“Some of teams in their game tutorials invited to go to forest for orienteering, but other – to test one’s knowledge and physical skills. Whereas, other games were based on carefree joy and invitation to freely run between growing tree trunks of Latvia and search for other participants of the game or doing some other task. And that was the aim of the contest – to invite young people to not only have a carefree recreation, but also to gain and improve knowledge in fresh air, in a free atmosphere,” says the representative of judges and LVM International Environmental Education Programme's “Learning about Forest” school coordinator Anda Sproģe.

The votes of judges and supporters determined the finalists of LVM Forest Olympics:

• Team of Carnikava Primary School
• Team “Domājošie ķekatnieki” from Nīkrāce Primary School
• Team “Meža gudrinieki” from Nīkrāce Primary School
• Team “S!guldieši” from Sigulda Primary School No. 1
• Team “Zīļotāji” from Krāslava Primary School
• Team “Cietie rieksti” from Aizkraukle Regional Secondary School
• Team “Vides pulciņš” from Aizpute Secondary School
• Team “Mežači” from Sloka Primary School
• Team “Mežinieki” from Jelgava Primary School No. 2
• Team “Meža skudras” from Irlava Secondary School of Tukums district

The aim of LVM Forest Olympics is to promote creative and healthy studying outside the Latvian school premises – in nature, and also to teach young people an understanding about Latvia’s largest renewable resource – forest. For the first time this year a contest was created where 7th-9th grade students had to create an outdoor educational game about forest and to demonstrate it outdoors together with their classmates using materials of nature. Participants of the contest had to describe the rules of game and have to create a 1 minute long video tutorial where the process of game can be seen