SIBUR launches its Inventing Engineers program in Gubkinsky as part of its Science Sessions
18 june 2021
On June 21 through 25, Gubkinsky will host a new series of training events called the Science Sessions for school students aged 9 through 12 who have showed an interest in scientific and technical disciplines. The project will be implemented with SIBUR’s support as part of its corporate social investment program, the Formula for Good Deeds, and with the support of Gubkinsky CIty Administration’s Department of Education.
The Inventing Engineers program seeks to help develop the students’ engineering design skills, promote and popularize the subjects of mathematics and physics, as well as to develop and further enhance the competence of instructors in organizing hands-on engineering activities for school students.
Course participants will spend their time tinkering with a Livetronic construction set developed by Gekkon, a children's scientific and technical creativity club. Each participant will be issued with an individual set of equipment necessary for doing the practical work. As part of their course, the students will be tasked to assemble an Asimov's robot, a rubber-motor car, a catapult, and a catamaran. They will then study their principles of operations and improve their skills of handling hand tools. In addition to attending the master classes, the participants of the Science Sessions will be offered video lessons, lectures, and contests.
Prior to the project’s launch, participating instructors will receive training on the course’s curriculum and will attempt to build the suggested engineering models on their own.
The classes for 9- to 12-year-old students will be held at School 5’s city camp.
This course in engineering doesn’t just introduce students to the world of inventing, but it also offers them an opportunity to build working models with their own hands, Anton Zaitsev, supervisor of the Inventing Engineers program, noted. Course models and designs are going to be made of purposely prepared parts that would have to be tool-finished to be later used in practical experiments.
This course is useful not only for the students who generally enjoy acquiring new skills in such an exciting way, but also for the teachers who use this program to learn an experimental teaching technique seeking to help unlock students’ potential. We do welcome such innovative approaches to teaching that make use of state-of the-art equipment and get children involved in research, Gulsina Sadykova, Head of Gubkinsky City Administration’s Education Department, noted
This year's Science Sessions are being held in eight cities where SIBUR has operations. While Dzerzhinsk was the first city to conduct the sessions, the program will also be hosted by Gubkinsky, Tomsk, Nyagan, Pyt-Yakh, and Blagoveshchensk (Bashkortostan).