NAUKA0+ Festival at INRTU: Six Student Scientific Societies Won Grants
On October 25 INRTU announced the leaders of the contest ‘Best Student Scientific Society’. The awarding ceremony was included in the closing program of the NAUKA0+ festival.
Defenses of the participants were held at INRTU on October 23-24. The organizer was the Department of Research and Entrepreneurship Development under the leadership of Svetlana Diripasko. About 20 teams presented reports, student scientific societies development programs and talked about their current projects
Vladimir Smirnov, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, welcomed the students and emphasized the importance of student scientific societies in the university's activities.
“Students who have gone through science school become the most successful graduates, reach heights in their careers. Some of you will work in academia, others will become employees of enterprises. However, it is safe to say that participation in young scientific teams is useful for every student,” notes Vladimir Smirnov.
The participants competed for financial support in the amount of 50, 100, 150 thousand rubles.
The most successful student communities were recognized:
• “Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology”, which is a subdivision of the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology named after V.V. Tuturina.
• “Energy”, created half a year ago. The team is planning to realize the project “Oil and gas: a journey through energy sources”.
• “Transport Manager”. The team will use the won funds to hold a hackathon “Digitalization of Urban Planning” to develop projects for “smart” planning of urban transport infrastructure based on data on the movement of public transport.
• "Technologist", where students are engaged in research in gas and oil refining, “green chemistry”, studying alternative energy sources and their integration with chemical technologies.
• “Automatics”, opened at the Department of Automation and Control. The team's achievements include 18 published papers, participation in grant projects and international events.
"We will use the financial support to develop the center, purchase equipment and attract new students through advertising campaigns and events. For example, we plan to hold master classes on programming and 3D modeling. We will also organize a series of seminars, during which we will tell how to properly prepare scientific papers, to decently represent the university at international conferences,” explained Dmitry Makletsov, the chairman of the student center.
• “Alidada”, organized at the Department of Mine Surveying and Geodesy. According to Anastasia Kalugina, the chairman of the student scientific society, the team will organize a drone battle “Sky Wars”:
“The tournament will use already existing UAVs and author's drones developed by our scientific society. INRTU students and schoolchildren will take part in the battle. Beforehand, the contestants will undergo training in controlling unmanned complexes”.
