Penza hosted the contest for erudite high school students "Ready, Clever Heads!"

Specialists of the Penza Regional Center of Access to the Presidential Library's Resources held an intellectual contest "Ready, Clever Heads!" for high school students of School No. 76. Its mission was to popularize Russia in the Electronic World Interactive Olympiad - an annual event of the Presidential Library.

The tenth graders were divided into two teams: Cross and Pile and Iceberg. They vigorously fought for the title of clever heads. The contest questions were prepared according to the tasks of the Presidential Library's Olympiad and adapted for team play. Tests for knowledge of historical facts, a crossword puzzle on social studies, information search in digitalized sources on the prlib.ru portal, questions from the field of linguistics - it is an incomplete list of assignments for children.

The high school students had to show their quick minds in a blitz game. The Cross and Pile team won thanks to the correct strategy of their captain.

The Presidential Library's website provides the collection Penza Region: Pages of History. It features archival documents, essays, studies and statistical materials covering various aspects of the regional history at the late XVIII - early XX centuries: demographic, geographical, socio-economic, socio-political and other issues.

Based on materials of the http://liblermont.ru portal