SIBUR launches Smart Technologies program in Noyabrsk as part of its Science Sessions

20 october 2021

On November 1-5, Noyabrsk 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 Noyabrsk City Administration’s Education Department.

The Smart Technologies program, implemented in Noyabrsk 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.

The breadth of knowledge that today's school students need to have in order to fulfill their professional ambition in the future has already gone well beyond the framework of a standard school curriculum, Svetlana Fateyeva, Head of the Education Department of Noyabrsk’s City Administration, commented. The opportunity to beef up their skills in such a field as "smart technologies" is very valuable for our children. For someone it may serve as a perfect foundation for a future successful career of a development engineer whereas others will find it useful for developing their creative skills and flexibility of thinking. That is what experts refer to as "soft skills”. Without a doubt, this will be of great benefit to them all down the road.