Prague College

Prague College is hosting its first annual high school mathematics competition during the month of March. This contest is intended for students of international secondary schools in Prague.

Participation has been confirmed by English College and International School of Prague, and the competition is open to all current students from participating schools.

The Awards Committee will include mathematicians from the Institute of Mathematics, the Academy of Science, and Charles University.

The competition includes 2 rounds:

Round 1: held at Prague College at 10 am on March 6, 2010
The top 15 participants will be selected to progress to round 2.

Round 2: held at Prague College on March 27, 2010.
The top three places will be awarded prizes.

Certificates will be given to all Round 2 students. Among the prizes will be short course vouchers, which will allow
the winners to take a suitable short course up to the value of 11 000 CZK at Prague College.

More information find here.

Prague College will be present at two international education fairs in the month of March. EDU fair will be held in Belgrade from March 11 to 13, and Bulgarian Annual Education Expo will take place from March 26 to 28 in Plovdiv. Fairs are designed for students interested in university education.

"We are happy that we can personally introduce ourselves to students in different parts of the world. Prague College is a good opportunity for students seeking internationally recognized degrees and education in English. Both international fairs have been the most successful in Eastern Europe in recent years," said Nelli Lahutka, Head of Admissions at Prague College.

Prague College is very pleased to once again host  the second and third rounds of the selection process for the Czech National Committee scholarships for the United World Colleges.

The Czech National Committee has been successful in sending five or six students each year to these prestigious secondary school institutions on scholarships. Prague College is proud to offer its support to the UWC movement and the Czech National Committee each year.

The Second Round of the selection process will be Saturday, 13 March 2010 at the main Prague College campus. Directions to Prague College are here...

For more information, please look at the websites of the UWC Czech National Committee or the United World Colleges:

http://uwc.cz/index.php

http://www.uwc.org/

 Three graduates of the HND Graphic Design programme, Nina Zakharkina, Katarina Gregorova and Zlatko Lazarov, who were among the twelve students to successfully put on their Diploma show in June 2009 at Doubner Gallery, talk about their experience of studying at Prague College and living in Prague as foreign students.

 Read the interview here...

Join us for an open lecture by Stefano Cavagnetto which illustrates some of the ideas
underpinning work by Prague College staff and students this semester across the disciplines of art and computing.

Prague College Studios | Polska 26
Thursday, January 28
Starts at 6:30 pm

The main aim of this talk is to illustrate how algorithms effectively generate an amazing world of fractals.

Classical Euclidean geometry deals with objects which exist in integer dimensions; fractal geometry works with objects in non-integer dimensions. While Euclidean geometry is a description of lines, curves, ellipses, etc. fractal geometry is described in algorithms, i.e. set of instructions. These set of instructions might produce rough or fragmented geometric shapes that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole (Mandelbrot, 1982).

The overall process gives rise to an unexpected beauty which can be depicted by beautiful shapes.