Young Ural region residents and their mentors go to an educational shift at MIPT

 

The program encompasses preparation for school Olympiads and the Unified State Exam (USE) in physics, mathematics, and computer science, along with professional development courses for teachers. Children and teachers had a unique opportunity to be trained by the best teachers of MIPT. As per the press service of the Empathy Foundation reported by RusBusinessNews, schoolchildren received lectures from Russian mathematician Andrei Raigorodsky and candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Pavel Ostanin. Meanwhile, classes with teachers were led by Leonid Koldunov, the deputy director for educational affairs at Fiztech School.

 

Before lunch, the participants of the workshop engage in subject lectures and seminars, while after lunch, they enjoy excursions to laboratories and attend popular science lectures. In the evenings, everyone can look forward to an entertainment program. There will also be excursions around Moscow, to the Museum of Cosmonautics, to VDNKh, and a separate sightseeing program in the Technopark of Kapitsa Fiztech-Liceum.

 

 

"Educators are the category of people for whom I have the greatest respect. It is those educators who know how to get kids fired up, to fight and search, to find and not give up. "This is the most crucial quality of a teacher – to instill motivation, to impart knowledge," says Andrei Bogdanov. "If we contemplate about science in schools – can science truly exist in schools?" Conducting comprehensive scientific research with practical implementation can indeed be challenging. However, initiating the first steps, such as engaging in initial research or project work, is crucial. It might make a qualitative study, but it's rare. The crucial aspect here is that teachers play a pivotal role in determining whether a child chooses to pursue a path in science or not. But providing initial motivation to children, allowing them to experience the essence of real science, and guiding them towards engineering, technical, or scientific disciplines is entirely feasible."