In older participants, a bump for memories reported as most important and happy was found.
The courses is free public school students, while older participants pay 50 manats ($63) for the course.
The average age of past participants is between 17 and 24, though older participants have been involved.
As the oldest participant, he became a chairman of the talks.
It indicates that older participants have more intrinsic religious motivation.
The only other participants older than 40 were the first two contestants eliminated.
But older participants who took on the challenge improved memory and reversed their brain's age.
"Our oldest participant now is 102 years old," he said.
In 2011, the oldest participant was 76 years old.
The department's target age group is rr15-18, although both younger and older participants are welcome in many of the endeavors.