SIBUR to hold an educational festival for Noyabrsk school students

18 january 2023

On January 28 and 29, SIBUR will hold an educational STEAM FEST festival for Noyabrsk schoolchildren as part of the company's social investment program, the Formula for Good Deeds. The students will be offered a glimpse into the exciting world of scientific exploration and to try on the role of researchers and experimenters. The festival’s program will feature activities that cater for students of different age groups including a science and technology show, interactive math, physics and chemistry classes, master classes in computer programming and soft skill development, experimental quests, open laboratories, and much more.

STEAM (an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) represents a state-of-the-art approach to education interweaving five different disciplines together to create a single educational framework. The goal of STEAM FEST is to introduce schoolchildren to the world of research, to explain to them the nature of many phenomena in a clear and easy-to—understand way, and to guide them in their search for a future occupation. The festival’s activities are designed with the idea of developing children's engineering and technical abilities, the skill of analytical thinking and of imbuing them with the personal qualities necessary for making a successful career.

The festival’s visitors will be able to attend a science and technology show where the show’s hosts will demonstrate their most striking experiments and share some of the secrets of their experiments on stage. The students will learn how inventors’ minds work and how they come up with original engineering ideas. There will be no magic tricks at the show, instead, it will be based exclusively on scientifically proven and well described laws of physics and chemistry.
Budding researchers will be able to take part in an open lab titled "The Affair on the Siberian Express". They will be involved in a thrilling investigation that will require conducting a series of scientific experiments. The students will carry out a number of experiments involving some chemical and physical reactions, study minerals and substances, and will be able to experience firsthand practical applicability and usefulness of natural sciences.
Math enthusiasts will have their own fair share of fun. They will be spending their time at an open area enjoying such activities as origami, puzzle solving, spatial stereometry, Leonardo’s bridges and exploring a math maze. Those eager to develop their spatial thinking abilities are advised to attend a master class on building pipe-shaped polyhaedra.

STEAM FEST will additionally feature a series of math workshops. High school seniors will study the z-axis method (aka the projective method) as an elegant way to solve stereometry problems by treating a section of a polyhedron as a plane. Middle school students will hear about the various kinds of math problems one might encounter in their everyday lives and learn how to solve them.

Those interested in computer programming will be able to attend several classes where they will be taught how to code a simple program to control a robot and learn the basics of coding.