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lowing stages took place: the written up the points for the written test and an No matter which place the competitors
test, which was taken by 87 of 134 stu- interview. took, all of those who reached the 2nd
dents. 49 students qualified for the final stage received a Certificate of Participa-
interview, of which 10 Laureates repre- The final ceremony and award-giving was tion.
senting 5 technical universities were se- held on Saturday the 8th of May at the
lected. PUT Senate Conference Room in the pres- After the official part, during the refresh-
ence of the authorities of PUT and invit- ment break, many people shared their
Laureates: ed sponsors and guests. The Rector was impressions on the spot. One could con-
1. Kuźmińska Katarzyna (Wroclaw) represented by Professor Leszek Pacholski, clude that many students were interested
2. Michalska Natalia (Poznan) Ph.D. Eng – the Dean of the Faculty of in participation in the coming editions of
3. Jagielak Maciej (Cracow) Computing, professor Krystyna Balińska the Olympiad and they were really im-
4. Szostak Magdalena (Cracow) was also present. The students had the pressed by what they had experienced.
5. Kazienko Michał (Wroclaw) opportunity get to know the president
6. Idzikowski Grzegorz (Wrocław) and vice president of the Polish-Irish So- 6th National Olympiad of the English
7. Poleski Piotr (Poznan) ciety Krzysztof Schramm and Justyna Ma- Language for Students of Technical
8. Dudziak Maciej (Poznan) zurek and Anna Gębka-Suska the chair of Universities
9. Korzeniowska Renata (Bialystok) the private language school Program-Bell.
10. Grobelny Bartosz (Szczecin). Laureates
After the official greeting of the gathered 1. Łapiński Tomasz (Gdansk)
For several years May has been a special guests by Liliana Szczuka-Dorna, M.A., 2 Jelińska Julia (Wroclaw)
month for the students of Polish techni- the Head of the Department of Foreign 3. Schmidt Adam (Poznan)
cal universities who want to have their Languages and a brief speech given by 4. Żochowski Paweł (Gdansk )
language skills tested in a pleasant and prof. Pacholski came the moment awaited 5. Szwarc Paweł (Silesian University)
attractive way. In this month, the campus by everyone – the announcement of the 6. Kosiba Marcin (Poznan University)
of Poznan University of Technology hosts results. If it had not been for the gener- 7. Buczkowska, Alicja (Gdansk)
the finals of the 5th National Olympiad osity of our sponsors, the moment would 8. Gorczyński Paweł (Warsaw)
of the English Language for Students of certainly not have been that exciting. Only 9. Matyja Dariusz (Wroclaw)
Technical Universities organized by the thanks to them – the Rector, the British 9. Ryżejno Michał (Gdansk)
employees of the Department of Foreign Council, BEET Language Centre, Malta-Ski,
Languages. the American Embassy, the Australian Em- On the 6th and 7th May at the PUT cam-
bassy, Wielkopolska Spółka Gazownictwa pus, the 2nd, final stage of the 6th Na-
This year students fought to gain the win- – Zakład Gazownictwa Poznań, Omnibus tional Olympiad of the English Language
ner's title, aiming to defeat their competi- School of Languages, Private language of Technical Universities took place. Tra-
tors in a two-stage contest. In accordance school Program- Bell , Clothing company ditionally, we host the representatives of
with the Competition Rules, the 1st stage Solar, Surgical Instruments Factory AESCU- Polish technical universities fighting for
was held in November 2003. It took place LAP CHIFA Ltd, Triada Imex S.C. , cosmetics the title of laureate. Students displayed
at 11 technical universities and gathered company Oriflame, Tourist Agency ATAS, their knowledge of English, and had al-
almost 300 students. The stage consisted WARSAW VOICE S.A., EL GAZETTE Lon- ready passed an intramural stage on 27th
of solving the test which included parts don, Hotel Poznan NOVOTEL, publishing November 2004. From 240 students of
checking: grammar, listening and reading houses: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 11 universities, 132 were invited to par-
comprehension, as well as the knowledge LONGMAN ELT, OXFORD UNIVERSITY ticipate in the final.
of technical issues and the knowledge of PRESS, MACMILLAN, LEKTOR KLETT, WA-
English speaking countries. 138 of the GROS, KURPISZ S.A., bookshops: Pol-An- Pro-rector of Poznan University of Tech-
contenders qualified for the next stage. glo, Nowela and Liber, the Olympiad is not nology, Professor Tomasz Łodygowski,
These students were invited to Poznan to only about having fun. Ph.D. Eng, and Head of the Department
enter for the final challenge on the 7th of Foreign Languages at PUT, Liliana
May 2004. Of this large group, 89 made Among the laureates this year were the Szczuka-Dorna, Ph.D, officially opened
it to Poznan. representatives of 5 technical universities. the second stage on 6th May, congratu-
They were awarded not only with prizes lated the participants on their knowledge
To become a laureate they not only had and books but also subscriptions to Eng- and, naturally, wished them good luck.
to get through the written part, but also lish magazines and tickets to Malta-Ski. After short announcements students
the oral one. By presenting their opin- started the written part. As in the first
ion on a drawn topic each person could The first placed winner was particular- stage, future engineers faced material
demonstrate their rich lexicon, fluency, ly honoured with a language course in requiring not only grammatical, but also
excellent pronunciation and grammat- Great Britain. This year the prize went to cultural knowledge.
ical competence. The selected group of Katarzyna Kuzminska, a student of Wro- Out of 71 people, 50 were qualified for
10 laureates was chosen after summing claw University of Technology. the interview, where they all received no

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