15th Economic Olympiad

The 15th Economic Olympiad is one of the national-scale economic olympiad events for high school students and the equivalent organized by the Development Economics Student Association FEB Universitas Airlangga. The Olympics, which has been running for 14 years, aims to test the competence and knowledge of students as well as to introduce the Department of Development Economics among students.
This year, the 15th Economic Olympiad carries the theme “Digital Economics for Developing Countries”. This theme was chosen because of the rapid development of digital technology and will continue to develop over time so that it can affect the economic system in Indonesia. The 15th Economic Olympiad consists of a series of events, namely:
Preliminary round: September 16, 2018 which took place in each region.
Semi-finals:
The semifinals of the 2018 Economic Olympics on Monday, September 24, 2018 at 07.00 WIB - finished at the Fadjar Notonegoro Hall, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Airlangga Surabaya. Teams that qualify in the regional elimination round will take part in the semifinals which consists of the following stages:
- ECONOMIC MULTIPLE CHOICE
Each team gets 75 multiple choice questions which are the development of the elimination questions in 60 minutes.
- ECONOMIC SCRABBLE
Each team gets a crossword puzzle consisting of 50 questions to work on for 60 minutes.
- SMART ECONOMIC
In this round, each team will answer 5 questions about Mathematics in Economics, Cooperative Economics and Accounting, in the form of descriptions on the answer sheet provided by the committee with a duration of 60 minutes.
Finals and grand finals:
Finals and Grandfinals

The Final Round of the 2018 Economic Olympiad on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 took place at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Airlangga University, Surabaya at 07.30 WIB - finished. Teams that qualify will undergo the next stages in the form of:

- RALLY GAMES
The ten teams that passed to the final preliminary round were drafted in the form of Rally Games for 90 minutes, namely post-to-post games which were carried out outdoors and indoors but still within the scope of the Faculty of Economics and Business. In the Rally Games there are 5 game posts where each post will be filled by 2 teams. Each team will pass each post with a different opposing team. The five teams that get the highest score will qualify for the preliminary round of the Grand Final.

The Grandfinals were followed by 5 teams that had qualified in the previous finals. Consists of several stages as follows:

1. CLUE COMPETITION

The first stage is clue competition. At this stage, each team will be given several short questions and must guess the answer correctly. The accumulated duration given at this stage is 45 minutes.

2. SPEED COMPETITION

The next stage in the grand final round is the speed competition, which is the stage of a quick race using a tool in the form of a bell button, so that the light that lights up first has the right to answer the questions given. The total duration at this stage is 45 minutes.
3. ECONOMIC CONTENT
At this stage, each team that passes to the semi-finals stage must create a wall magazine containing topics about the digital economy and collect it at the semifinal stage in Surabaya.
4. ECONOMIC CONTENT PRESENTATION
At this last stage, each team will present the wall magazine that the team previously made at the Economic Content stage, then a question and answer session will be conducted by the jury.