More than 500 schoolchildren, 53 teams, 21 finalists and 6 winners are the result of a unique for Mariupol scientific technical creativity contest from the Metinvest Group. The competition of young minds is over. The main prize, that was a trip to the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, was won by the team of the technical lyceum ‘Cyber Lyceum pupils’.
Mariupol high school students struggled for victory for several months. In the online game format, the participants used brainstorming and teamwork to effectively solve engineering problems and create creative projects.
The competition was held with the technical support of specialists from the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works and the network of Quest Rooms ‘Locked’. On a specially developed online gaming platform, teams solved non-standard tasks and sent their solutions in different formats: photos, videos, design sketches, computer programs, production models and so on. In the final, they defended their projects, each of which the jury assessed individually.
21 teams made visualization, presented and defended their projects. The jury consisted of representatives of the Metinvest Group and teachers of technical universities. The jury assessed the conformity of the stated concept, the accuracy of the design, the functioning of the declared elements, confidence in the response, reaction speed, understanding of the material, involvement in the project and presentation skills of their own project.
‘The tasks were interesting and different. Somewhere it was necessary to give the correct answer to the question, somewhere to develop an individual project to solve the problem. At the same time, we did not limit the scientific and technical imagination of the participants in any way. After all, the ability to think outside the box, using brainstorming, to find original approaches to solving a problem is much more important than patterned thinking,’a jury member, HR-business partner of Metallurgical enterprises of the Metinvest Group, Mikhail Turcan said.
The maximum number of points and the grand prix of the competition was won by the Cyber Lyceum team of the Mariupol Technical Lyceum with the project Smartphone for BelAZ. The first place went to the team "Phase of Reason" of school №10.
‘One of the most important qualities in adulthood: quick problem solving, including teamwork. We emphasized that our young people understood that production is not only physical labour, it is also knowledge of automation and metallurgy. In the future, the metallurgist is either a programmer who knows the technology, or a technologist who knows programming,’ Sergey Kozlovtsev, a jury member and head of the converter workshop at the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works said.
In addition, the team tutors - teachers Elena Nesterenko (school № 48), Alexei Krivyak (school № 5) and Ekaterina Suslova (school № 10) are noted. They received the title of "Best Tutor" and a grant of UAH 25 000 each on the development of technical project groups at schools.
