In  Rostov-on-Don, in the Rubin coworking space, a school engineering hackathon was held within the framework of the Project School of a Young Innovator project, implemented by ANO FIRON. 

At the opening of the hackathon, the teams were greeted by the regional representative in the Rostov region of the Fund for Assistance to Innovation Anna Pushhenko, Deputy Director for Project Activities of the Children's Technopark "Quantorium" Natalya Vishnyakova, Director of ANO "FIRON" Inna Shengof.

Teams of schoolchildren and students aged 12 to 18 years worked on cases in the following areas: additive technologies, aerospace technologies, robotics, Internet of things and industrial design.

The hackathon participants presented their engineering projects to experts - business representatives, candidates of technical sciences and winners of the “UMNIK” competition of the Innovation Promotion Foundation.

The third place was taken by the Hydrogenium team from the Regional Center for Technical Creativity of Students and the Quantorium Children's Technopark with a project in the direction of the Internet of Things, which created an intelligent shopping basket.

The second place was shared by two teams. Novocherkassk RGEngineeringMechanic team from TTC Robo. A Grade in Industrial Design presented the posture holder project, and the Tembot 6 team from the Tembot technical creativity studio in Timashevsk created a universal reconnaissance robot for searching people under rubble during natural disasters (Robotics direction).

The first place was taken by the Alpha-centauri team (representatives of the SSC of the Southern Federal District) with a project to create a rocket (direction "Aerospace technologies").

The Hackathon Grand Prix was awarded to the team “47” from the Don Robotics Academy DonRobot and MBOU “School No. 86”, which worked in the direction of “Internet of Things”. The participants created a smart home for a pet in two days.

By the way, the team "47" became the winners not only of the hackathon, but also of the regional stage "SHUSTRIK", now the participants' project will be assessed at the all-Russian level.

The hackathon was held with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund and ANO “Agency for Innovations of the Rostov Region”.

Also, the Rubin coworking space hosted lectures for schoolchildren, teachers, instructors and mentors on how to launch an innovative project, what support measures are available and how to plan work before launching.

Let us add that we continue to accept applications for the regional stage of the SHUSTRIK competition for all schoolchildren aged 6 to 18 years. The SHUSTRIK competition is an opportunity for schoolchildren to try their hand at engineering, to defend their solution in front of experts in June and to get the opportunity to claim a prize at the federal level.

You must submit an application by May 15 at https://shustrik.org/ . Contact person - Tkachenko Daria Sergeevna, project manager of ANO "FIRON". Phone - 8 (863) 310 07 87, ext. 402, mail - d.tkachenko@firon.org .