SECOND LEG OF EU COMPETITION #2

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Our first question this time is for Notable Seconds: Which is the second most populated city in each of the following countries: Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland?
Question 2: Who has been re-elected as EU Ombudsman and what does an Ombudsman do?
And finally a twofold question: Could you tell us which political system the countries in question 1 have and also which percentage of non-nationals of their total population?
Best of luck! Send your answers to iescampanar09@gmail.com.
Congratulations to Strang Zsanett, who got all the answers to last fortnight's competition alright!!
SOLUTION:
1.-Brno (Czech Republic), Hamburg (Germany), Debrecen (Hungary), Barcelona (Spain) and Geneva (Switzerland).
2.-Mr Nikiforos Diamandouros.
The European Ombudsman is committed to ensuring that citizens, NGOs, associations and companies, are aware of their right to complain about maladministration in the EU institutions.
3.-Parliamentary Republic (Czech Republic and Hungary), Federal Parliamentary Republic (Germany), Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy (Spain) and Federal State with Parliamentary System and direct Democracy (Switzerland).
Percentage of non-nationals: 6% in Hungary and Czech Republic; 9% in Germany; 12% in Spain and 22% in Switzerland.

THE WINNERS OF THE LITERARY CONTEST IN LÜNEBURG

 

LOOK AT ALL NAMES AND WORKS

In the photo above the ten winners in Lüneburg: Daniel Klein, Frederic Braun, Lauritz Miarka, Linard Furck, Yannic Sperling, Daniela Denda, Marie Bryzgalski, Mirjam Koch, Sara Diep, Violetta Spöler

The aim of the project was to write a creative literary text (essay, poem, song text, short story, diary entry …) about the topic “Hero of war” and the question whether European countries should be regarded as ‚brothers in arms’ to solve conflicts all over the world.

Ajka visit article in local newspaper LEVANTE

Estudiantes y profesores en Hungría.
El IES Campanar se
reúne en la ciudad
húngara de Ajka con
estudiantes de cuatro
países de la UE.
Nueve profesores y 23 alumnos de centros
escolares de Secundaria de Lüneburg (Alemania),
Lipníck nad Becvou (República Checa),
Ginebra (Suiza) y Valencia han visitado
el Bródy Imre Gimnázium, Szakközépiskola
és Ami en Ajka (Hungría), dentro del Proyecto
Multilateral Comenius “The School as
the Integration Engine”(La Escuela como
Motor de Integración” que estos cinco institutos
comparten y del que el IES Campanar
es coordinador. La visita incluyó sesiones de
trabajo conjuntas alumnos-profesores, presentaciones
en Power-point, asistencia a clases e instituciones y
viajes culturales.

Publicado en Levante el Miércoles, 20 de Enero 2010

PUZZLE 2 (Second Leg)

TO BE HANDED OR E-MAILED BY THE 10th OF FEBRUARY 2010

A Ball Game

A box holds 40 juggling balls. Two friends are playing a game in which they alternate to pick up balls from the box. When it is their turn each player can take out as many balls as wanted but never more than half the number of balls in the box. The player that cannot take any more balls from the box will lose.
Who will be the winner, the first or the second friend to play? And which will be the right strategy to win the game?

SOLUTION

Let us see if there is a winning strategy. If there is one, the winner in his/ her last turn, should leave the other person only one ball as that would make it impossible for the other player to pick up any balls.

And so, going backwards, the winner in the previous movement, should have left the other player with 3 balls. This way the “loser” could only have picked up 1 ball and leave the other 2. (W(n-1) = 2·1 + 1 = 3).

In the same way, in the last-but-one movement, the winner should have left W(n-2) = 2·3 + 1 =7,and in previous turns he/she should have left: W(n-3) = 2·7 +1 = 15, W(n-4) = 2·15 +1 = 31.

However, only the person playing FIRST can get to do that by picking up 9 balls on his/her first movement and leaving in the following 15, 7, 3 y 1 balls.

The winner thus will be the first person to play and to use the strategy explained above.

SECOND LEG OF THE EU COMPETITION #1

Hi everybody! Here you have the three questions:
1.-On the 1st of January 2002 Euro banknotes and coins were introduced in 12 of the then 15 Members of the European Union. Now the euro is used in 16 countries. Which EU countries do NOT use it?
2.-Which three cities have been chosen to be the 2010 European Capitals of Culture?
3.-You control climate change is an interesting website in which you can see 21 EU teenagers getting animated about climate change and giving you some useful tips. Watch the videos and tell me which language Johanna, Adrien, Eszter, Jakub, Maya and Gauthier speak and how old they are. Easy, isn´t it?
If you know the answers, e-mail them to iescampanar09@gmail.com
Good luck! The solution and next set of questions will be posted on the 30th of January.

SOLUTIONS:
1)The following EU countries do not use the Euro: United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden.
2)Pécs (Hungary), Essen (Germany), Istambul (Turkey).
3)Johanna-17-German; Eszter-18-Hungarian; Adrien-16-French; Jakub-18-Czech; Maya-16-Spanish; Gauthier-16-English.

PUZZLE 1 (second leg)

TO BE HANDED OR E-MAILED BY 25th OF JANUARY 2010 

Three people whose surnames are White, Red and Black happen to meet at a party. Shortly after introducing themselves, the lady says:

-‘It’s funny that our surnames are White, Red and Black and that there are here three people whose hair colours are exactly those three colours’.

The red-haired person answers:

-‘Yes, it really is but you have probably noticed that none of us has the colour corresponding to our surnames’.

-‘True!’ says the person called White.

If the lady hasn’t got black hair,  who has it red?

  

S O L U T I O N

Mr/Ms White hasn’t got red haired because he/she speaks after the one who is red-haired. He/She hasn’t got white hair because this is his family name so he/she has black hair.

Mr/Ms Red has neither red nor black hair so this is the white-haired person.

 The only possibility is for the person called Black to be red-haired. Apart from that the lady can neither be called White nor Black, who answers to her. Thus she is called Red.

SOLUTION: The person who has red hair is Mr. Black.

SECOND LEG OF THE MATHS AND EU COMPETITIONS

As announced earlier in December, the second leg of the Maths Competition will restart on the 10th of January and will run for 10 weeks with a new puzzle every fortnight (i.e. 5 puzzles from January to March) for the students who won the previous leg of the contest in their respective countries.
As for the EU competition, it will restart on the 15th of January and will run for ten weeks on a fortnight basis too.
More information will be posted on the above mentioned dates.

WELL, WELL, WELL, A NEW CONTEST, BUT DON'T YELL!

LITERARY CONTEST: "Hero of War"

1. Essay, poem, fiction writing, story writing , ...........written in English
2. Length: 150-300 words.
3. Deadline: 26th of March 2010 (for Spanish Students the 12th of March due to local "Fallas" holidays)
4. Age: 14-19
5. Three prizes (14/15-year olds, 16/17-year-olds, 18/19-year-olds)
6. The five schools taking part in the project will send a maximum of ten entries per school.
7. The e-mail address where to submit them is   iescampanar09@gmail.com
8. The result will be posted on this blog  by the end of March.

WINNERS OF THE MATHS COMPETITION IN LIPNÍCK (Czech Republic)

These are the names of the three students who have won the Maths Competition in Lipníck:
Lukáš Slaměník, Kristýna Mandáková, Lucie Balkánská.
Congratulations!!!