The Youth Council of Lutsk together with the Association of Young Reformers (AMoRe) under the patronage of the head of the Volyn Regional Council Vasyl Dmytruk are holding the anniversary fifth competition to identify the best students of the Volyn region – "Student of the Year 2004". The main goal of the competition is to create conditions for the formation of a modern youth elite and to ensure the realization of talents and abilities of student youth.

A special feature of this year's competition is the expansion of the project's geography, namely the involvement of student youth studying in higher educational institutions of Volyn (until now only students of the city of Lutsk took part in the competition). An innovation of the 2004 competition is a conceptual change in the holding of the solemn awarding of finalists and winners, namely a change of venue – the regional music and drama theater and, exclusively, the classical style of the final program. One of the achievements of last year's holding of the event, let us remind you, is scholarships from the Lutsk city mayor for the winners; today, according to an agreement between the head of the organizing committee of the "Student of the Year" competition Anton Sosnovskyi and the head of the Volyn Regional Council Vasyl Dmytruk, such scholarships from the new year will also be provided by Vasyl Pavlovych.

Attention to studying youth: participant application forms in eight nominations; humanities scholar, natural sciences scholar, athlete, journalist, entrepreneur, artist, public figure, computer genius, will be distributed in the dean's offices of all higher educational institutions of Volyn from November 22 to December 6 inclusive. The final of the competition will take place at the Taras Shevchenko Regional Drama Theater approximately on December 11.

The competition is held with the support of: the official patron of the Volyn organization of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Industrialists of Ukraine, patrons Lutsk Bearing Plant, VHRU Pryvatbank, VD Ukrtelecom, Imeksbank, TAS insurance group, Compservice, Kobak firm, Volynholding, LuAZ, JV "Volynpak" TM "Pan Kurchak", entrepreneur Ananich's chain of cafes, hotel-restaurant "Ukraina", with the support of the Lutsk city executive committee, the department of family and youth of the regional state administration, People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar,

Press service of the competition