Analysis of the participant solutions of the first Student International Olympiad on Mechanism and Machine Science

Conducting student contests promotes student interest to a science, and discloses the youth creativity. The top ranking competitions reveal the best students on the international level, engage them in their future professional career as well as compare the educational systems, adopted in different countries. The Student International Olympiads (SIO) on Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS), introduced by IFToMM in 2009, can be considered a new advantageous form of MMS study. The paper analyzes the participant solutions of the first SIO MMS, which was held on April 19–21, 2011 in Izhevsk (Russia) at Izhevsk State Technical University.