A growing number of students engaged in technical creativity. For example, in Riga are 22 circles, about 30 electives. Supervise their employees of universities, research institutes, workers base enterprises.

An interesting experience has been gained at school number 74. This created a circle of technical work recently, but his popularity among students is high. In the circle of the guys are preparing for training purposes electronic devices, using computational tools obsolete. Patron of the school and the circle of the WEF and Production Association, Inc. titut of Electronics and Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR. Chiefs have helped to equip the room physi-

Why a co-op student?

L. Kravchenko, the instructor of the Komsomol

The cooperative movement in the country gets more and more momentum. It is gaining strength, depth and breadth develops, produces new and original forms. One of them - the students' co-operatives. According to some incomplete data of students of the Central Committee of Komsomol, they have about a thousand. They are based on workshops and vocational schools, training and production plants and orphanages, boarding schools, clubs and centers for young technicians. Many were pleased with this fact. But many, and alarming, is disapproving assessment, and even open opposition. So what is a student, or, as it is called, teaching and production co-operative - good or evil? To answer, let us remember, in particular, our history.

Time will urgently need to solve the question of the relationship of technical creativity of pupils with self-financing. There are already examples where the creative team at work contract with the school administration on the accelerated development and introduction of technical innovations. Mutual benefit and obvious, but along the way are many obstacles and outdated regulations.

B. REVUNOV, laboratory study physics and computer science school N2 of Riga

What does the historical experience! It turns out that the student's co-operatives - a phenomenon for our country is not new. The first school co-operatives appeared in Russia before the revolution - in the 1910-1912 years. Already in 1913 the All-Russian Exhibition marked the activities of cooperatives in Kiev and Mogilev, which provided the rural schoolchildren cheaper notebooks, textbooks, pencils, pens. For example, the magazine "Russian School" for 1914 reported on the activities of a rural co-operatives province of Kiev, which brought together 54 student and worked under the guidance of a teacher. Shares of the cooperative members were 10 kopecks. The cooperative helped the children to purchase paint, colored pencils, books. 3d year of income of £ 5. 29.5 kopecks. At a general meeting of the students decided to buy a lamp for the school for 25 kopecks., 30 kopecks. contribute to the construction of the monument of Taras Shevchenko, the ruble to buy books for school libraries, one Kopenkov paid members of the cooperative as a devidendov share contribution. The rest of the money spent on organizing tours to the city ..

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