15th Economic Olympiad is a national economics competition for high school students and its equivalents, organized by the Development Economics Student Association of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga . The event, which has been running for 14 years, aims to test students' competency and knowledge while also introducing the Development Economics major to students.
This year, the 15th Economic Olympiad carries the theme "Digital Economy for Developing Countries." This theme was chosen due to the rapid development of digital technology, which will continue to evolve over time, thus influencing the existing economic system in Indonesia. The 15th Economic Olympiad consists of a series of events, including:
Preliminary round: September 16, 2018, held in each region.
Semifinals:
The semifinal round of the 2018 Economic Olympiad took place on Monday, September 24, 2018, at 7:00 a.m. WIB (Western Indonesian Time) and finished in the Fadjar Notonegoro Hall, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga Surabaya. Teams that qualify from the regional preliminary round will proceed to the semifinal round, which consists of the following stages:
– Economic Multiple Choice
Each team gets 75 multiple choice which are a development of the preliminary questions within 60 minutes.
– Economic Scrabble
Each team gets a crossword puzzle consisting of 50 questions to work on in 60 minutes.
– Economically Smart
In this round, each team will answer 5 questions on Economic Mathematics, Cooperative Economics and Accounting, in the form of descriptions on the answer sheet provided by the committee with a working duration of 60 minutes.
Final round and grand final:
Final Round and Grand Final
The final round of the 2018 Economic Olympiad will take place on Tuesday, September 25, 2018, at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga Surabaya, from 7:30 a.m. WIB until finished. Qualifying teams will proceed to the following stages:
– RALLY GAMES
The ten teams that qualified for the final preliminary round were selected for a 90-minute Rally Games competition, a post-to-post competition held both outdoors and indoors within the Faculty of Economics and Business. The Rally Games consisted of five game stations, each consisting of two teams. Each team faced a different opponent. The five teams with the highest scores advanced to the Grand Final preliminary round.
The Grand Final will feature the five teams that qualified for the previous finals. It consists of the following stages:
- CLUE COMPETITION
The first stage is the clue competition. In this stage, each team will be asked several short questions and must guess the correct answers. The cumulative time allotted for this stage is 45 minutes.
- SPEED COMPETITION
The next stage in the grand final is the speed competition , a competition involving a buzzer-like device, allowing the first light to come on to answer the question. This stage lasts 45 minutes.
- ECONOMIC CONTENT
At this stage, each team that advances to the semifinals must create wall magazine material containing topics related to the digital economy and submit it at the semifinals in Surabaya.
- Economic Content Presentation
In this final stage, each team will present the wall magazine that the team previously created in the Economic Content stage, then a question and answer session will be held by the jury.
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