Tomsk to host a "Smart Technologies" Science Session with SIBUR’s support

21 october 2021

On November 1-5, Tomsk will host a new series of educational events known as Science Sessions aimed at school students aged 9 to 12 who have shown an interest in scientific and technical subjects. The project is being implemented with SIBUR’s support as part of its Formula for Good Deeds social investment program and with the support Tomsk City Administration’s Education Department.

The Smart Technologies program, implemented in Tomsk within the framework of Science Sessions, will introduce participants to the basics of electronics and electricity. Guided by their experienced practicing instructors, the students will spend five days, three hours a day, putting together various smart gadgets such as a galvanic battery, a perpetual flashlight, a portable loudspeaker, a sensor alarm, and a Tesla coil, which they will then be able to take home as souvenirs. In addition to the master classes, attendees of the Science Sessions will be offered to take part in video lessons, lectures and contests.

Classes for students aged 9 to 12 years will be held in a remote online format.

In developing our program, we tried to incorporate all the topics that are relevant for and most interesting to 21st century children, Kseniya Zayets, the developer of the Smart Technologies course, noted. As a child, many of us were eager to learn more about how the various technologies we use work. How does a battery work? Or a wireless charger? Or can a light bulb light up right in one’s own hand? We tried to make sure that, by trial and error, the students would be able find all answers to these questions and then put together their first, but definitely not their last, gadgets at their own impromptu laboratory.

"Smart" speakers, "smart" home appliances and even whole control systems, broadly referred to as the "smart home", have all been gaining a strong foothold in our everyday lives. At the heart of these technological innovations is knowledge that is becoming easily accessible and understandable even by school students! I believe that this stage of the Science Sessions will be of great interest to our children here. And, of course, the best way to reinforce the knowledge thus acquired is to put it to practical test by assembling one of these "smart" gadgets on one’s own, Maxim Savenkov, Acting Head of the Education Department of Tomsk’s City Administration, commented