Thursday, April 21, 2011

Presentation of the project "Green Rush" of AIESEC in Kharkiv

On April 20th the presentation of the "Green Rush" project lead by international youth organization AIESEC in Kharkiv was held in the library of Kharkiv National Economic University (KhNEU).
The main goal of the project is to improve knowledge of kharkovites about environmental problems of the world and especially of our city. As a result of the project, awareness of the importance of ecology for city dwellers and especially for students of Kharkov is going to increase, and will be offered solutions for improvement of it.
During the presentation the project manager Lyudmila Yakovenko made a speech. She told about the project. An intern from India Ravi Shankar spoke about the experience of similar projects in India.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Brain-ring on traffic rules

On April 9th at KhNAHU there was held a brain-ring on issues of road traffic safety, "Do you know the traffic rules?" between the students of Kharkiv and Kharkiv region.

This event was organized by the youth movement "Security of Ukraine’s Future".
The participants competed on the knowledge of traffic rules.
The 1st place was taken by representatives of school № 5.
The 2nd place – by school № 17.
The 3rd place – by grammar school № 34.

The students also visited the laboratory of high-speed cars, where they learned about the project "Hadi 34" as well as the goals and philosophy of ecological marathon Shell and energy efficient technologies of Honda Company.