Live interaction with a master teacher, a scientist, and an expert in his field has become the most requested thing for school audiences

Just recently, the epidemiological situation forced us to sit at home and receiving educational services through online communication turned into a kind of torture for the nervous system. And only much later, MANY OF US UNDERSTOOD many of us understood - this is a real check or even a kind of test-drive for self-control and discipline of the young generation of our country.

Rare in the past, teleconferences linking school audiences with each other and the walls of higher education have evolved from a whole event and a highlight of the school learning process into something quite ordinary and routine. And in these circumstances, it is live communication with a master teacher, a scientist, and an expert in his or her field that has become the most requested thing for school audiences.

What is the SCIENCE Festival for schoolchildren in our opinion?

This is a scientific and educational opportunity to meet with representatives of a modern university, research institute or industry. This is an opportunity to see the development path of an expert and to make an outline of your strategic planning.

And what does the school festival give to young professionals of the nuclear industry?

Participation in school events - this is primarily an exam for adulthood: the training of speeches in front of audiences of different ages, it is working out their public position in the industry, understanding their path and plans for the future, positioning themselves as leaders and creating their own audience all this and much more is hidden under a generally simple concept - test organizational and communication skills that is so necessary for our youth.

So, what was in our spring AtomFEST-2022 or simply the Festival of SCIENCE for students from different schools and different cities, namely Almaty, Talgar, Akkol, Temirtau, Nur-Sultan and Stepnogorsk:

1. Republican scientific-educational lecture hall "Peaceful Atom":

  • the natural origin of ionizing radiation;
  • the use of ionizing radiation as illustrated by Kazakhstani nuclear industry enterprises;
  • Peaceful atom in the control of tularemia;

2. Meeting with scientists from the RSE "Institute of Nuclear Physics" of the ME RK;
3. Meeting with a specialist "Kazakhstan Nuclear Power Plants" KAES, SC "Rosatom" and Tomsk Polytechnic University;
4. Meetings with representatives of Universities:

Kazakhstan branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University:
• "Application of UAVs for objectification and assessment of territories";
• "Unmanned aircrafts: a fashionable toy or a researcher's tool";

National research Tomsk Polytechnic University:
• "Modern plasma technologies;
• "Two-component nuclear power: present and future";

P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the RAS:
• "The Engineering of Quantum States;

FGBOU VO Tver State Medical University:
• "Peaceful atom in health care."
• "Human immune system";
• "Current state of the problem of transplantation of human organs and tissues";

FGBOU VO Stavropol State Agrarian University:
• "Biotechnological aspects of baking"

National research university ITMO:
• "The first source of current."
• "Chemistry in the industrial field."

5. Technical tours to the Astana branch of the RSE "Institute of Nuclear Physics" of the ME RK;
6. Technical tour to the Institute of Applied Chemistry;

7. Republican contest of video reports on the use of peaceful ATOM;
8. Quizzes and games by the rules of the club "What? Where? When?"

All participants of our Festival of SCIENCE, who took part in more than 30 activities received in memory of our meeting small souvenirs, and the most active participants who answered the questions received a gift merchandise of our youth.

I would like to express special gratitude to our colleagues who are members of our Association, as well as to our foreign partners for their high level of professionalism, skillful organizational work and fruitful cooperation in order to increase the level of education of young researchers, their involvement in independent analysis and formation of a qualitatively new level of competence in the field of nuclear technology.


Photos from  our meetings.