Schoolchildren don’t waste time during their winter holidays. Sports sections continue to work in the centers of additional education. For example, about seven hundred children go to the capital's Palace of Children and Youth. Eight thousand children of different ages are engaged in extracurricular activities during this winter holidays. One of the most popular classes is the aircraft modeling club, where they make models of airplanes out of paper and create radio-controlled exhibits. The ballroom dancing school is preparing for the annual republican championship in sports ballroom dancing, which will be held in Minsk in early February.