463 School Students Become Winners and Prize-Winners of the National Technology Olympiad
The results of the eleventh season of the National Technology Olympiad (NTO) have been announced. The winners and prize-winners include 463 school students in grades 8-11 and 80 students from 59 regions of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan. The Olympiad is held within the framework of the national project "Youth and Children."
The Olympiad's organizing committee is chaired by Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, and Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
"Our President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin notes that scientists and engineers are already shaping a new reality with their bold ideas. The National Technology Olympiad has been supporting talented school students and students for 11 years, helping them find their way in the field of research and development. Over this time, more than 1.1 million people from all regions of Russia and 77 foreign countries have participated in the competition. Each year, the Olympiad attracts more and more participants. This shows that among the younger generation, there are many truly interested, talented young people who are keen to develop in science and technology and transform the world for the better",
emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.
The marathon of final stages lasted three months, with the final competitions held at 24 leading universities and technology companies in 11 cities across the country.
At MSUPE, on the premises of the L.S. Vygotsky Pedagogical Technopark "Quantorium," the final competitions of the "Neurotechnologies and Cognitive Sciences" track of the National Technology Olympiad took place.
"This year, as part of the final of the 'Neurotechnologies and Cognitive Sciences' track, participants developed a high-tech system that analyzes the electrical activity of the brain (EEG) and determines a person's focus of attention. The finalists formed teams to go through the full journey of neurophysiologist engineers: from assembling and adjusting sensitive medical equipment to creating neural network algorithms capable of extracting, in real time from the noise of brain signals, the specific object on which the operator is focused. Such technology lays the foundation for systems that can understand a person's state without words and control complex devices using mental commands. The work was carried out using modern equipment – an electroencephalograph and an electromyograph",
said Olga Esenina, Head of the "PRO PSY" Center for Career Guidance and Pre-University Education at MSUPE.
The winners in the individual competition were Oleg Drokanov from the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239 in St. Petersburg and Konstantin Bykov from Novosibirsk Lyceum No. 22 "Hope of Siberia."
"We are systematically training engineering personnel, starting from school. We pay special attention to career guidance work: school students regularly visit production sites, get acquainted with real technological processes and in-demand specialties in their regions. Here, the National Technology Olympiad is becoming a crucial tool: it helps to identify talents at the earliest stages, gives school students and students the opportunity to try themselves in real engineering.
These are our future qualified personnel, for whom we are building the entire system – from career guidance to employment",
noted Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov.
The NTO final brought together more than 2,100 participants. School students competed in 34 tracks, students in 7 areas. The tasks were as close as possible to the demands of the real economy, and the work was carried out in conditions close to actual production processes.