Anatolia College has presented the centre’s summer programme which will take place at the Centre for Talented Youth Greece.
The centre’s programmes are aimed at pupils from third grade of the primary school to second grade lyceum from all over Greece and Cyprus and include online, weekend and summer programmes lasting three weeks.
Exams in English and Greek will take place in Nicosia on February 9 at the English School in Nicosia and the Laniteion Gymnasium in Limassol on February 10. The cost for each test is €30 per person.
Lidl is for the fourth time sponsoring scholarships for gifted students from Cyprus to attend classes at Anatolia College in Greece, offering €40,000 for the participation of at least 20 students in the college’s summer programme.
A new programme will be offered with the support of the supermarket giant in the summer of 2019, ‘Nutrition: Highway to Health’, and this will be offered to the Cypriot children who attend the summer lessons.
The course was presented last Wednesday to journalists at the Lidl Food Academy in Nicosia. The new lesson concerns both food chemistry and the principles of healthy eating. Students will have the opportunity:
• to understand more deeply the nutritional value and the basic principles of chemistry, microbiology and food production technology, as well as the role of healthy nutrition in disease prevention and good health
• explore basic food standards, in line with global standards, for their proper development, health sustainability and disease prevention
• study the chemical composition, nutritional value and microbiology of various foods and learn some of the key maintenance technologies
• Discover the parameters that affect our nutritional choices (environment, psychological mood, culture, advertising)
• interpret nutrition labels to make use of this information in choosing the right foods to design a healthy diet
• Finally, issues such as reducing food waste, environmentally friendly farming, livestock farming and fishing, and developing sustainable food production systems will be discussed.
From the start of the programme in 2014, Lidl has contributed as a sponsor for the education and development of gifted children. For the first time, Lidl provided the opportunity for students from Cyprus to attend this programme in 2016.
From 2013 until today 489 pupils from Cyprus have participated in the centre’s examinations.
Eighty-eight students attended CTY Greece’s programmes. Of these, 50 students participated in the centre’s summer programmes in Athens and Thessaloniki. 22 children were awarded scholarships.
CTY Greece works in partnership with the Hopkins centre for talented youth and is supported by the Niarchos foundation. The centre, which is unique in Greece, is housed in Anatolia College in Thessaloniki.
Information about CTY Greece and its programmes are available at the website
www.cty-greece.gr and information on the exams can be found at www.cty-greece.gr/el/exams
