The best participants of the project «Nazarbayev Fund Schools Challenge» will go to the United Kingdom
The final for the Republican contest «Nazarbayev Fund Schools Challenge» was held today at the Nazarbayev Center. This competition is held for the third time by the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy, together with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, RSE «National Institute of Intellectual Property» of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev University, national air carrier JSC «Air Astana», JSC «Samruk-Kazyna Trust» , Franco-British Research University Cranfield (Cranfield University).
The project is aimed at deepening the knowledge of schoolchildren, deepening in engineering and technical areas, increasing interest in creating products of intellectual activity in the transport industry.
The Deputy Executive Director of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy Igor Rogov, Vice-Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan Almat Madaliyev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain to the Republic of Kazakhstan Mike Gifford, Vice-President for Innovations of Nazarbayev University Erden Kusain, the General Director of social projects Development of «Samruk-Kazyna Trust» Diyas Azbergenov, representative of the Cranfield aerospace school, captain Jan Hollingworth (United Kingdom), winner of the 2018 competition Evgeny Demidenko, as well as Air Astana company representatives.
At the opening ceremony, the Deputy Executive Director of the Foundation of the First President, Igor Rogov, noted the Fund’s role in supporting the abilities of young people in science and innovation: «Today, more and more conditions and opportunities are being created in the country for youth self-realization in science and innovation. One of such opportunities is provided through the competition «Nazarbayev Fund Schools Challenge» of the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is gratifying that the project received a high return from school students. In the three years of its implementation, 1 500 young people from all regions of the country were involved in the competition».
The competition consists of 2 stages: regional and republican selection rounds.
This year, in the course of a regional tour, about 100 best teams (500 participants) selected 17 finalist teams (85 participants).
They won the right to get into the final selection and today presented their projects to the jury members. The jury evaluated the practicality of projects, the quality of presentation of ideas, the level of use of English.
Participants presented their work in the field of technical and engineering specialties: transport and logistics oil and gas, engineering, architecture and construction, mining and processing of raw materials, biotechnology, chemical industry, IT, biotechnology, robotics and others.
The winning team of the competition, as well as 2 students from each finalist team in August 2019 will go on a week-long educational trip to the University of Cranfield (United Kingdom) - one of the leading universities in the world in the field of aerospace design and the development of "green" technologies.
Such an internship for our children will be an invaluable experience and impetus for the further development of their ideas.
It should be noted that many winners and finalists of previous years entered the leading Kazakhstan and foreign technical universities. The competition helped them choose their future profession and improve their English proficiency.
One of the clearest examples of the positive effect of the competition is the victory of Evgeny Demidenko from Kyzylorda. He is a participant in last year's competition «Nazarbayev Fund Schools Challenge», which created a new concept of the aircraft as part of the assignment for the competition.
Subsequently, the concept was acquired by one of the world's largest manufacturers of aviation, space and military equipment - the American company The Boeing Company.
