This is an Internet-based contest. It is held in 3 stages:

• Stage I — To participate in the Contest, the candidates register by completing the Registration Form. After the registration, the candidate will receive a confirmation letter via email with the assigned ID number. This number is used to anonymize the essay later. The registration is open from March 1, 2020 to March 19, 2020.
• Stage II — The participants submit their essays via the Submission Form. The essays can be submitted from March 20, 2020 to April 20, 2020.
• Stage III — The Committee reviews all essays submitted to the Contest and determines the winners.. The results will be announced on May 8, 2020 here, on this page.

All students of educational institutions of all types are allowed to participate; high school and higher education students, undergraduates, postgraduates, young specialists majoring in language- and non-language-related fields of study of all forms of education.

There are 3 age categories:

• 14 - 18 years;
• 19 - 24 years;
• 25 - 35 years.

The Contest work should be done individually. The collective works are not permitted.

Contest requirements

The work submitted to the Contest should be previously unpublished individual creative works dedicated to the World War II engineering achievements which laid the foundation for technological progress of the 21st century.

The Contest entries should be in English or German.

The work should conform to the essay genre. An essay is a short creative piece of writing, in which the participant provides their vision for the proposed topic, trying to justify it, based on the current trends of social development, as well as referring to the facts drawn from social or personal experience.

The essay should be an original piece of writing that contains no elements of plagiarism.

Entry length: 3 000 — 5 000 characters (including spaces).

Structure: introduction – main part – conclusion.

The citation of references should be in footnotes with all the output source data (author, title, city of publication, publisher (periodical), year of publication (issue number), pages).

Only one work is allowed per author.

By sending their entries to the Contest, the participants agree that personal details and texts (and related pictures) of the Contest works may be published on the websites of the Contest Organizer and used by the Contest Organizer for on-commercial purposes, including for the design of installations and for publications.

The entries are denied participation if they contain the following: text and/or images that violate the laws of the Russian Federation; any degrading texts or containing racial discrimination, as well as other forms of violations of ethical norms; promoting the use (distribution) of alcohol, tobacco, and other psychoactive substances; any forms of references to political parties, slogans; religious and banned symbols; violation of the requirements for the content and design; advertisement trends; anonymous entries (without ID of a properly registered candidate) or entries without the author's real name in their registration details.

Contest results

Each entry is judged by at least 3 members of the Contest Committee.

Each judge fills the scorecard while judging the Contest entries. The total score is the sum of points in the scorecards of the Contest judges. Based on the scorecards, the Committee Secretary makes a ranked list of participants indicating the obtained points arranged in descending order.

The winners of the contest are determined by the Contest Committee by using criteria on a 5-point scale (Appendix 1).

The Contest Committee takes into account the total amount of points of all entries and forms the results.

The Contest winners are participants which entries are 1-3 places in each age category according to the results; the Contest Committee reserves the right to also award the following:

- the "Most Competent Essay" award;

- the "Most original vision" award;

The Contest Committee reserves the right to create additional nominations and awards. The winners of the Contest and winners in nominations will receive Winner Certificates. Contest Participants will receive Participation Certificates.

Judgement criteria (5 points each)

• a detailed answer on the topic
• a clear and coherent composition, semantic unity, consistency of key messages and statements, no contradictions in the text
• a coherent and reasoned text flow based on technical characteristics of inventions
• the ability to think independently, to analyze the material with a clear goal in mind, and compare the facts, draw conclusions and generalizations
• compliance with lexical, phraseological, grammatical, and stylistic norms of the literary language
• correct spelling and punctuation
• proficiency in terminology
• reflection of interdisciplinary relations
• social significance of the topic