«KAZROBOPROJECT-2019» - A PROJECT FOR YOUNG INNOVATORS
Today, the Nazarbayev Center hosted the final of the Republican competition of science and technology projects in robotics «KazRoboProject-2019». This competition is held for the third time by the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy together with the Republican public association «Kazakhstan Federation of Educational and Sports Robotics «KazRobotics».
The purpose of the competition is to promote the development and popularization of educational, as well as sports robotics in Kazakhstan, to support the ability of young people to implement ideas in the field of technical innovation.
Between March and May 2019, children and young people aged 10 to 21 years were actively selected in all 17 regions of the country. At the initial stage, about 200 young designers from Kazakhstan took part. As a result of a careful selection of the final 30 best teams passed.
The significance of the implementation of such republican projects as KazRoboProject, as well as the activity of the guys, were noted by the leaders of the Foundation of the First President: «Elbasy always supports young people. He has many projects aimed at your development. One of them is the scholarship program «Bolashak», which has become the brand of Kazakhstan. 100 new textbooks in the framework of the project Ruhani Zangiru, 100 new faces, the National project «Nurly Bolashak» and many others.
It is extremely important for our country to pay great attention to the development of human potential and support the creative abilities of the younger generation. It should be noted that the Fund implements many projects aimed at supporting talented youth. For example, today we are summing up «KazRoboProject», just yesterday the names of the winners of the «Nazarbayev Fund Schools Challenge» became known, before that our talents had been in Singapore at the competition «Smart zholy». Our projects can be a long list. The main thing is that all of them provide an opportunity for the younger generation to develop and express themselves».
The positive effect of participation of young people in the project «KazRoboProject» is evidenced by the fact that it has become for many of its participants a useful experience and an incentive for the further development of their ideas.
One of those who were helped by the robotics project was Lyubov Dudchenko, the winner of last year’s competition. Having developed a special application for blind and visually impaired people, Lyubov won the competition for scientific and technical innovation among adolescents «CASTIC-2018» in China.
In addition to the first place, the young Kazakhstani girl was awarded two special awards from the Foundation of the famous Chinese scientist Gao Shichi and the company «Sanray».
The culmination of the final of the project «KazRoboProject-2019» was, of course, the announcement of the names of the winners within two age categories: from 10 to 15 years and from 16 to 21 years.
In the category from 10 to 15 years:
- 1st place - the project «Scanbot» (a device for digitizing printed books) Artem Malykh, Ayparа Syzdykova from Pavlodar region;
- 2nd place won the project «Smart eco boxes» (compost preparation) Matvey Rybalkin from Almaty;
- 3rd place was given to the project «Smart House for Birds» by Milena Smirnova and Snezhana Sinitsina from the East Kazakhstan region.
In the age category from 16 to 21 years:
- 1st place - the project «Free delivery of medicines» by Artem Tishkov - Almaty;
- 2nd place in the project «Simulator for the extremities» Mukhtar Orazbay and Farabi Samalikov from Atyrau region;
- 3rd place - received the project «Vibro braslet in school for deaf childrens» by Artem Martynov and Baischer Abdykalykov from Almaty.
«We have created a device that can convert books into electronic format. Such devices are already in the world, but they are very expensive. In our regional library is this. Its cost is 3 million tenge. Our invention is almost 10 times cheaper. Our apparatus, in contrast to very expensive analogues, does not require a person to stand next to him and turn over each page. We are very happy that we were able to win the competition! This gives us confidence. We will further develop our project!», says one of the authors of the project «Scanbot» Artem Malykh.
As a reward, the winners of the competition received meccano kit from which robots can be assembled.
