Today upper-grade students of specialized school “Orbital” have visited Technopark “Idea”. This year the school has turned 42 and it is held with the support of Technopark “Idea”.
The meeting with Technopark CEO was held in the form of tutoring section on building a career and organization of innovative business. Sergey Yushko told students about the “Idea” history, residents’ activities, the areas of their business and Technopark’s interaction with the Republican Educational Institutions. CEO of Technopark in his speech paid a special attention to success stories of young people. Thus he told about the employee of one of the resident-companies "Idea", who started a career with a teller, and now she is a head of Tatarstan branch of the company. Also he cited as an example a story of a student who has received sufficient competence in the company to organize his own business, and now he is the owner and director of one of the Technopark’s resident companies.
“The most important thing - to set goals and achieve them", - said Sergey Yushko. Technopark CEO in the conclusion of his speech pointed out that the "Ideas" doors are always open to children who have a desire to develop and start their business.
The guests have been presented an example of the idea implementation to the product – a new model of 3D-printer developed by their age mates – students of the Youth Innovation Creativity Centre - students of Kazan universities and upper grade students of Lyceum No. 145. Leader of young developers team Iskander Mukhamedyarov has presented the development to the “Orbital” activists and told about its features. For example, he explained that the printer, compared with the existing models, showed the high printing speed, metal case, high quality as well as the simplicity and ease of use. Iskander Mukhamedyarov noted that this is only the first development. "Now we are working on a second model, where we will take the previous mistakes into account", - he said.
Young developers told that 3D-printers can be applied in almost all areas of life, from architecture to medicine.
In the conclusion of the meeting Director of RT Laser Centre Nickolay Nasonov told the guests about the aspects of the work. The students were familiarized with the process of creating photo products and three-dimensional glass image, complex surfaces engraving, parts marking.
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Summer specialized school “Orbital” - a kind of summer school camps, which combines a summer vacation and active chemistry classes. The camp has been organized in Kazan by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan in cooperation with Kazan National Research Technological University since 1972. The School Programme includes lectures, optional courses, extensive sports and entertainment programs.
Over the past 42 years of the School activity, 9975 students from all regions of the country combined their active vacations with the deepening of knowledge in natural sciences. All-Union Forum of Young Chemists of the Country (1977) and three International Schools with the participation of students from Germany, Bulgaria and Poland were organized on the basis of “Orbital”.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Oleg Sinyashin, Corresponding Member of the RAS Vladimir Mironov, over 25 professors at Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU), Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (KFU), Kazan State Medical University (KSMU), A.E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry (IOPC) were engaged in the specialized school and are currently working in Kazan. Such eminent scientists of the country as academics B.A. Arbuzov, A.V. Novoselova, I.A. Petryanov-Sokolov, M.I. Kabachnik, I.A. Tarchevsky, A.I. Konovalov, P.A. Kirpichnikov, I.S. Antipin delivered their lectures to the students.
