Academic competitions and technology olympiads as a means to identify and develop endowments of school students

Abstract

The article investigates the problems linked to the issues of finding out, developing and supporting of the endowments of children and adolescents. The authors offer a range of criteria to determine the types of endowments which are determined as an integral and a multisided phenomenon. The complex structure of the concept singles out inclination to labor as the primary factor of the endowments. This article introduces the experience of conducting competitions and technology Olympiads for the students of general education institutions, which are, according to the authors, is the efficient means to identification and development of the endowments of the children and adolescents.