IT Academy team building session: lectures, workshops, graduates' awarding, picnic on Lake Baikal shore
En+ organized team building for the IT Academy educational program participants. The event by Lake Baikal attracted over 100 students fr om INRTU, ISU and BrSU.
The three-day event took place at the Gora Sobolinaya resort. The team-building program comprised over 20 lectures, workshops, trainings, and business games. Speakers at the professional development educational intensives were specialists from En+ Digital and En+ Telecom.
The leisure block included quizzes, movie watching, engineering competitions, creative thinking, and leadership skills training. In addition, for the first time, the program included a picnic on the site of the ECO.CEH ecological campus.
"The participants learned more about the companies and felt like part of the large and friendly En+ team."
As part of the team-building event, graduates were awarded professional retraining diplomas. This summer, 30 INRTU students will join En+ Digital's team. Yulia Shcheglovskaya, En+ Digital General Director, and Alexey Govorkov, Executive Director of En+ Telecom and Head of the INRTU School of Information Technology and Data Science, told the graduates about their future prospects.
One of this year's graduates was Alexander Matveev, who mastered the ERP-platforms course. Soon, he will start working at the Accounting Programs Support Department.
"The team building helped me tune into my work tasks and get to know the company's staff. The event on Lake Baikal shore was memorable for lively communication, exciting intensives, and a picnic at the ecological campus, which I visited for the first time.
I expect professional development and participation in interesting and large-scale projects from working at En+ Digital," says Alexander Matveev.
For the newcomers, participants of the fourth stream of the IT Academy, team building became the final part of the first stage. Later, they will have to make a decision to sign a study contract. It implies extra scholarship payments and guaranteed employment in En+ Digital or En+ Telecom companies.
Sergey Lunyonok, a second-year student at the INRTU School of High Technologies, signed the contract in a solemn atmosphere. At the IT Academy, he is mastering industrial communications in the interests of En+ Telecom.
"The team building organizers arranged a rich program. We attended various trainings, walked in picturesque places, and recharged with Lake Baikal energy. During the retreat, it was interesting to get to know En+ staff and students from other universities.
I liked En+ Telecom's workshop, wh ere I had to set up a network for a video call to a neighboring building. Thanks to the intensive, I was able to work with modern equipment and gain valuable practical experience," Sergey Lunyonok shared his impressions.
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"IT Academy" is aimed at additional training of students specializing in information technologies for RUSAL United Company and En+ on the basis of Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Siberian Federal University, Bratsk State University, and Irkutsk State University. The project provides an enhanced specialized training program formed with the use of experts — the companies' representatives. The program is implemented with the support of En+ Corporate University.
En+ Digital is a specialized IT company and is included in the register of organizations accredited by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media. The company actively follows the development of information technologies and contributes to the digital transformation of clients' businesses. En+ Digital offices are located in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Irkutsk, and other cities in the Irkutsk region.
En+ Telecom LLC is the leading Internet provider in the Irkutsk region. The company operates in more than 250 settlements in the Irkutsk region and provides communication services for both companies and individuals. The length of its own fiber-optic communication lines is more than 4000 km, covering 70% of the territory of the Irkutsk region.
