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HortOlympics – European Championships in Horticulture Skills
(May 29, 2019) - (June 1, 2019)
HortOlympics is a competition open to students of the horticulture.
Wednesday, 29th of May
Arrival and transfer to Räpina
Accommodation
18.30 – 20.00 Dinner in school canteen
Thursday, 30th of May
8.00 – 9.30 Breakfast in school canteen
10.00 – 10.30 Opening ceremony
10.30 – 12.00 Competition
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch in school canteen
13.30 – 16.00 Competition
16.00 – 17.00 Free time
17.00 – 21.00 Hiking trail in the Meenikunno bog and dinner (picnic)
Friday, 31st of May
8.00 – 9.00 Breakfast in school canteen
9.00 – 12.00 Competition
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch in school canteen
13.30 – 14.30 Competition
14.30 – 16.30 Free time
16.30 – 17.30 Closing the competition and award ceremony
18.00 – 23.00 Study visit and dinner at Estonian Agricultural Museum in Tartu
Saturday, 1st of June
Breakfast
Departure to Tallinn or Riga Airport
* Possibility to visit the celebrations of Räpina School of Horticulture 95th anniversary and local festival “Räpina Hea Kodu Päevad” (“Good Home Days” – local fair, workshops, concerts, home cafes etc. Photos from “Good Home Days 2018”: https://meedia.rapina.ee/2018/05/hea-kodu-paevad-2018/)
Tasks
- Soil pH and plants
- Plant identification
- Seed and fruit identification
- Putting on a personal protective equipment (plant protection)
- Plant protection (calculations)
- Grafting
- Scrolling the trimmer filament
- Trimming lawn
- Guessing weights
- Recognizing salad ingredients
- Measuring gardening line and scrolling
- Determining the circumference of the tree stem, age and height
- Robots and programming
- Fertilizing (calculations)
- Planting
- making indoor plant cuttings
- Filling a plant growing tray and sowing seeds
- Transplanting seedlings
- Building an insect hotel
- Assembling an irrigating system
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