Schoolchildren implemented space projects in Finals of Olympics of National Technological Initiative

All-Russian Finals of the National Technological Olympiad Junior for schoolchildren 5-7 classes arrived from all over the country, took place on November 20, 2021 in the city of St. Petersburg on the basis of the Academy of Digital Technologies.

In the qualifying competitions of the Olympiad Space Profile (“Technologies for Space”), more than a thousand schoolchildren took part. The tasks of the qualifying stage included physics and mathematics, knowledge of electronics, design, programming and the foundations of space navigation. Over 10 schoolchildren from the Queen of the Moscow Region, Novosibirsk, Ufa and Cheboksary scored the maximum number of points – 100.

Finalists had to try on the role of employees of the flight management center, decipher the message accepted from space and send a space mission to other planets. The winners and winners of the stage were the teams of the guys from St. Petersburg.

Deputy General Director of Anno “Russia – Country of Opportunities” Anton Serikov and Chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Education by Natalia Putilovskaya congratulated the participants’ closure ceremony. With regard to the finalists, the cosmonaut of Roscosmos, Andrei Fedyaev, also appealed to the finalists, who noted the importance of the work of schoolchildren in the team, their passion for science and technology.

Roskosmos State Corporation is a system partner of the Platform “Russia – Country of Opportunities”, as well as Olympics in Space Directions in the main category and in the Junior category. In the final, participants meet with practical tasks from leading organizations of the rocket and space industry, and the winners and winners will receive commemorative prizes and souvenirs from the state corporation.

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National Technological Olympiad – Command Competitions for Schoolchildren, on which they are able to create an image of the future, experiment, study new technologies and solve engineering and technological tasks. The National Technology Olympiad Junior (previously – Olympiad of the Circle NTI.Junior) is team engineering competitions for schoolchildren 5-7 classes implemented in conjunction with the Presidential Platform “Russia – Country of Opportunities”.

/Media reports.