Welcome back to school!

Congratulations! The summer is over and we are back at the beginning of another nine-month academic race. I am happy to have the same students this academic year. I hope we'll manage to avoid flu quarantines this time, which might enable us to achieve better results... unless they don't cheat, miss classes, ignore recommendations etc.



Aristotle said: "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."



B.B.King added a couple of milleniums later: "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

I can't but agree with both of them. May this year strengthen the foundations of the castles of your unique personalities!

Exciting Summer

‘How did you spend your summer holidays?’ is a traditional question for the first class of every next academic year or a topic for the first essay written by ESL students. I spent my summer in the most exciting way, in the forest, running ARGO Camp Program as its Chief Supervisor (director), drawing What’s on? bulletins, painting posters, hiding in the bushes (see below), diving in the swimming pool, rowing boats and teaching some English.





This time I got employed by Impuls-Plus Tour Operator who has introduced the program to the holiday market.



The ancient ARGO crew members were not just average sailors: each of them was famous for some unique gifts, talents, abilities or a social position. Just to mention the most prominent of them: Argus (the shipbuilder), Asclepius (the doctor), Heracles (the strongman), Orpheus (the singer and musician)… The name ARGO suggests that every participant is seen as a unique personality whose abilities are appreciated and developed.





We obviously did our best to implement this noble idea and make it work. For this purpose we created numerous situations that demanded various skills: intellectual, physical, artistic, hunting, managerial, surviving, performing, and what not…













In these photos you can see Naukova Zmina students at different ARGO events. Do you recognize Vlad Garanko, Yuri Ischenko, Andriy Komyshev, Kate Bondarenko, Myroslava Ostapenko, Serhiy Kazaryan, Ivan Kovtun, Andriy Rustamov and Alisa Kuznetsova?
I have to admit that participation of Naukova Zmina students in the program made me proud of the educational establishment I have a privilege to work at. Our students are bright, definitely not average, and their presence cannot remain unnoticed.I hope to see even more of our NZ guys participating in the next ARGO Camp Programs!