Compiled by Theona Bokhua

Millennium Challenge
Georgian schoolgirls will visit NASA Space center in summer and take part in an educational
program. Three students 17 years old Tamo Mikeladze, Nini Khundzakishvili and 15 years
old Ani Tetrashvili claimed the first place in the Millennium Innovations Award competition
that aims to reveal young inventors in the STEM fields.
Moreover, as a part of the program of Space Center University, the young inventors will visit
museums, galleries and private places of Space Center Houston, where the tourists
and visitors are not allowed to enter.
The winner team from gymnasium AIA GESS has presented project “Robot Labourant” that
is aimed at helping students to conduct experiments in natural sciences from home. The
invention enables students to get education from distance and has the ability to comply and
perform specific tasks that the students order the robot from home. The robot can speak and
answers the questions about the ongoing experiment.
Everything started with the idea of creating “Robot-Laborant,” which was implemented by
the team and then presented at “Millennium Innovation Awards.” As one of the members of
the team, Tamo Mikeladze explains, the contribution of gymnasium AIA GESS in carrying
out the project is significant. The pupils study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics) and work on various projects together with their mentor David Songhulashvili
there.
What is Robot-Laborant and how it was created? Tamo and her team members were
concerned about the fact that most children do not have access to the scientific laboratories,
what hinders the process of studying natural sciences.
“We wanted to establish the real, remotely controlled laboratory. Then we perfected this
idea with the help of our mentor and started working on it. We wanted to help those
students who have limited possibilities or live in remote places to get education not only
through books or internet, but conducting research and experiments.
What makes our devise innovative is that it enables students to conduct the researches in the
fields of physics, chemistry and biology from any part of the world remotely.
Moreover, using Robot-Laborant gives them an opportunity to get the information from
inaccessible and remote places,” explains Tamo Mikeladze.
According to 17 years old inventor, working on the project was quite was difficult and yet
very interesting.
"Implementation of any project is connected with many obstacles and of course we also faced
some problems, but gradually we managed to solve them and complete the project. Since we
are interested in science and innovations, we found out about the project “Millennium
Innovation Competition” long time ago. We wanted to take part before, and eventually we
came up with “Robot-Laborant.” It is impossible to achieve success without teamwork and
mutual understanding between the teammates. Accordingly, cooperation was the key to our
success while working on the project,” Tamo says.
Vocabulary
1) To claim--- /kleɪm/ -- უფლების განცხადება, პრეტენზია, დამტკიცება.
2) To reveal-- /rɪˈviːl/ -- გამომჟღავნება, გამოჩენა, აღმოჩენა.
3) To present--- /ˈprez.ənt/ -- წარდგენა, მიწოდება, განსახილველად გადაცემა.
4) To aim-- /eɪm/ -- გამიზვნა, მიზანში ამოღება, მისწრაფება.
5) To conduct-- /kənˈdʌkt-- წარმართვა, საქმის წარმოება, ხელმძღვანელობა.
6) To comply-- /kəmˈplaɪ/ -- შესრულება, ასრულება.
7) Ongoing-- /ˈɒŋˌɡəʊ.ɪŋ/--მიმდინარე.
8) To implement-- /ˈɪm.plɪ.ment/ --შესრულება, განხორციელება, მოქმედებაში
მოყვანა.
9) Contribution--/ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/ -- წვლილი, შენატანი.
10) Significant-- /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/--მნიშვნელოვანი, საყურადღებო.
11) Concerned-- /kənˈsɜːnd/--შეწუხებული, დანაღვლიანებული, ნაწყენი,
გულნატკენი.
12) To hinder-- /ˈhɪn.dər/ -- ხელის შეშლა, დაბრკოლება, შეფერხება.
13) Inaccessible-- /ˌɪn.əkˈses.ə.bəl/--მიუდგომელი, მიუწვდომელი.
14) Obstacle--- /ˈɒb.stə.kəl/-- დაბრკოლება, ხელის შეშლა.

Read the text and the questions which follow. For each question mark the
correct answer (A, B, C or D).
1) The text is about
a) Georgian teenagers
b) Great discovery
c) Competition
d) Benefits of co-operation
2) Robot- Labourant was created by
a) The group of Georgian students
b) One of the member
c) Tamo Mikeladze
d) Unknown
3) What was the purpose of this invention
a) The lack of possibility to do some research
b) To win the competition
c) To help Georgians
d) There was no clear intention initially
4) This invention is an unique because it
a) Is multifunctional
b) Helps students to do research
c) It enables students to manage their research from far away
d) It free
 5) As it is stated in this text : goal can be reached
a) With the help of exchanging ideas
b) When being professional
c) Mutual understanding
d) Team work and co-operation

Word formation

Success – successful - ( Adjective ) -- წარმატებული.

Unsuccessful— (Adjective) წარუმატებელი.
Successfully— ( Adverb) წარმატებით, წარმატებულად.
Unsuccessfully— ( Adverb) წარუმატებლად.
Succeed--- ( Verb) წარმატების ქონა, მიღწევა.
Succeeding--- ( Verb) წარმატების მიღწევის პროცესი.
Succession---( Noun) მიმდევრობა, თანმიმდევრობა.
Successive --( Adj) --თანმიმდევრული, თანმიმდევრობითი.

Expressions:
1) Success in sth-- დასახული/ სასურველი მიზნის მიღწევა. He had a giddy
success in business.
2) To make a success of-- რაღაც რაც აღწევს კარგ შედეგებს. I am determined to
make a success of this project.
3) Success rate-- წარმატების მაჩვენებელი. Hope my book is going to have a 100 %
success rate.
Idioms:
1) Hungry for success-- ვინმე ვინც ძალიან ამბიციურია.
2) High-flier --- ვიღაც ვისაც გააჩნია დიდი პოტენციალი,პატივმოყვარე.
3) Be a howling success--იყო უკიდურესად წარმატებული.
4) The sweet smell of success -- ეიფორიული მდგომარეობა მოპოვებული
წარმატების გამო.
5) Key to success-- ვინმეს წარმატების საიდუმლო.

Essay : When you succeed it because of hard work , luck has nothing with it . Do you agree or
disagree with this opinion.

“ Try not to become a man of s uccess, but rather try to become a man of value” . Albert
Einstein