The 13th edition of the National Translations Contest "Corneliu M. Popescu" was organized on May 28, 2016 at "Mihail Kogălniceanu" High School in Vaslui (the written test) and online, on the Learning Management System (LMS) - the intellectual product of the Erasmus + strategic partnership "Comics in Teaching Languages / La BD en classe de langues" http://lang-platform.eu/lms coordinated by the highschool.
We can say that it was an edition of all records: nearly 350 students participating to the written test in Vaslui, contestants coming from from all over the country, with an online version containing a real intellectual challenge - the participants were invited to acquainted with the new learning Management System (there were created for all the participants new accounts and passwords, neither more nor less than 695 students from all Romania, guided by 140 teachers). To keep in touch with these passionate modern languages learners and with their teachers, we have created instructions, tutorials and regulations and everything was "put on rails" to "go smoothly" - on the new platform LMS and with the subjects at the written exam this year, adding a touch of fantasy and creativity, valuing the participants in the spirit of the strategic partnership Erasmus + KA2 "Comics in Teaching Languages / La BD en classe de langues" - umbrella under which the competition was conceived; more precisely, it has introduced a new subject, consisting of a translation of one comic, from a modern language in Romanian, a third topic added to the other two - literary translations from Romanian into the foreign language and vice versa. We had the following sections: French language, English language, Spanish language, Italian language, Russian language for the written test and French, English and Spanish for the online contest. The ages of the participants - from 10 to 19 years ols, divided into 4 categories (juniors 1-2-3 and Seniors).
A 13th edition of the contest introduced a new team for organizing the contest, made up of volunteers - students aged 14-16 years old, of the bilingual profile from IXth D grade (bilingual French-Italian, specializing in social sciences) and Xth C grade (bilingual French-English - natural sciences), the direct beneficiaries of the Strategic Partnership Erasmus + KA2 "Comics in Teaching Languages / La BD en classe de langues" who achieved with selfless and professionalism all the missions they have been entrusted by meeting with enthusiasm specific tasks so that they facilitated the communication between the participants and the teachers from the organizing committee - from filming and picturing to uploading data in apps, and using logistics for the smooth running of action.
We were very happy to receive guests from far away - not only neighbors from the departments of Neamt, Suceava, Iasi and Bacau, but also from Braila, Constanta, Bucharest or ... even Maramures! The online massive participation forced us to a total upgrade, in order to not record some server failure during competition. Of course, no such thing happened! And in online, we had actually present all the country!
We received very concrete support of the French Institute in Bucharest and of the Agregaduría de Educación of the Spanish Embassy, of the clubs Kiwanis and Lions (Vaslui subsidiaries) in order to provide prizes for all sections. We thank them all very much for all their effort!
The whole story contest, the tutorials, the allocation of the rooms for the written tests, the main topics and the results or the static images - a photo gallery, you can discover all this in this documentary, available online and posted on the special website http: //translationscontest.blogspot .com (the same for ten years), on the Facebook page @translationscontest and on the website of the Erasmus + strategic partnership lang-platform.eu/bd.
The electronic learning management system (LMS) http://lang-platform.eu/lms remains at the free disposal of the competitors and their teachers, which were created special individual access accounts; there will be new courses (we have already started "Le français par la BD", "English through comics", "L'histoire de la BD", "Fumetti nell'insegnamento della lingua italiana " ... a total of 13 online interactive courses which can be sources of inspiration for optional subjects or educational materials - support for modern language classes). The 2017 online edition of "Translations contest" will also be organized here ... and many other events.
All the institutions that have sent students into the competition will be proposed to continue to be part of a consortium implementing the project results ...
We present now the documentary film of the XIII edition of the National Contest of Translation "Corneliu M. Popescu." Enjoy!
