Six INRTU master's degree students became holders of Vladimir Potanin Foundation Scholarship
Six master's students form Irkutsk Polytechnic University became holders of Vladimir Potanin Foundation Scholarship. The students will receive a monthly scholarship in the amount of 25 thousand rubles starting from February 2023 until graduation from master's program.
16 INRTU students managed to pass to the second stage of the scholarship contest. Vlada Pyatkova, Pavel Grigorov, Maksim Popov, Fyodor Deryugin, Viktor Kovrizhnyh and Tatiana Chernyshova became the winners.
According to a press release from Vladimir Potanin Foundation, 6 410 people were interested in the contest. Two thousand undergraduates from 75 universities of the Russian Federation demonstrated their knowledge and creativity in the final round.
According to Oksana Oracheva, General Director of the Foundation, 750 people from 71 higher educational institutions won the contest:
"This reflects the wide geography of the competition. The winners belong to different age categories - the youngest is 21 years old, the most mature one is 58 years old.The Foundation's support is not only an opportunity to conduct research and implement social projects. We hope that the leaders will be able to use all the opportunities provided by the Foundation for personal growth and professional development."
Scholarship winners study in 102 master's degree programs. The most popular fields of study among the winners are law, physics and radiophysics, management, biology, international relations and pedagogical education.
A first-year student Viktor Kovrizhnyh is one of the leaders of the scholarship program. He is studying innovation at Irkutsk Polytechnic University. Viktor Kovrizhnyh indicated all achievements for the period of bachelor studies, including the victory at the 10th International Engineering Championship CASE-IN ("Oil and Gas Engineering").
Viktor Kovrizhnyh shared his impressions:
"The first task of the final stage was to prove why exactly you should study at the ideal university. Then we made up questions for the opponents, coordinated the schedule of classes. The most interesting task was to construct an ideal campus in a special application.The second stage proved that distant events can be very exciting. We were able not only to demonstrate our creativity and erudition, but also had a great time."
Fyodor Deryugin, Maksim Popov, and Pavel Grigorov are studying at the School of Information Technology and Data Science. Maksim and Fedor study corporate information systems and participate in Quantum Student Scientific Society. They create prospective projects in the field of IoT (Internet of Things) under the guidance of Roman Kononenko, Head of Hardware and Software Computing Lab.
Pavel Grigorov, a future specialist in artificial intelligence, uses neural networks to upgrade the bionic prosthetic arm Prometheus Prosthesis, which was developed together with students and medical specialists.
The sphere of scientific interests of the first-year student Tatiana Chernyshova includes industrial mathematics and computer science. Denis Sidorov, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Industrial Mathematics Lab at BS BRICS and Editor-in-Chief of the updated iPolitech Journal, is Tatiana Chernyshova's scientific advisor.
Vlada Pyatkova, whose major is chemical engineering, is another winner. Vlada was one of the Top100 graduates of INRTU in 2022. She took an active part in "Baikal" and "Islands" forums. Vlada is a prize-winner of the regional contest "Student of the Year" and the "Geoscience-2022" conference. She successfully combines her studies at the university with her work at Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha (PJSC Rosneft).
Every year INRTU students become leaders of Vladimir Potanin Foundation Scholarship. Anastasia Gavrilova from School of High Technologies, Artur Galfinger and Igor Prosekin from School of Power Engineering received scholarships in 2022.
