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    <journal-meta>
        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE169</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2010.14</article-id>
                        <article-categories>
            <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                <subject>Article</subject>
            </subj-group>
        </article-categories>
                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Extracurricular Training in Informatics in Ruse</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>GRIGOROVA</surname>
                    <given-names>Katalina</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:katya@ami.uni-ruse.bg">katya@ami.uni-ruse.bg</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Ruse University &#039;&#039;Angel Kanchev&#039;&#039;, Department of Informatics and Information Technologies 8 Studentska Str., 7017 Ruse, Bulgaria</aff>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>HRISTOVA</surname>
                    <given-names>Plamenka</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:ptx@ami.uni-ruse.bg">ptx@ami.uni-ruse.bg</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_001"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_001">Ruse University &#039;&#039;Angel Kanchev&#039;&#039;, Department of Informatics and Information Technologies 8 Studentska Str., 7017 Ruse, Bulgaria</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                                                        <volume>9</volume>
                                <issue>2</issue>
                                    <fpage>209</fpage>
                        <lpage>216</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>10</month>
                        <year>2010</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>The authors underline their opinion that it is preferable to organise the extracurricular education on city level instead of forming autonomous school groups. Putting together students from different schools forces them to share their knowledge and programming techniques. All this helps them get familiar with new practices and experience and inspires ambitions for growth and progress.</p>
                    </abstract>
                <kwd-group>
            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>gifted children</kwd>
                        <kwd>extra-curricular education</kwd>
                        <kwd>competitive informatics</kwd>
                    </kwd-group>
    </article-meta>
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