Inspired by the conditions of the final stage of the Second Open Engineering Competition “Build Your MRIYA” for students of grades 8-11, which took place at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute during 29-29 of October, 2015. Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute on March 29 and 30, 2025, students from 24 Ukrainian cities - Kyiv, Kharkiv, Halych, Kamen-Kashyrskyi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Hlukhiv, Bohodukhiv, Kobeliak, Mykolaiv, Bucha, Irpin, Sumy, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chuhuiv, etc. will certainly remember the hours spent on creating wings, fuselages, stabilizers, keel, launcher (catapult) and testing the models in flight on the university's football field.
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The competition was held in two rounds. A total of 103 applicants took part in the qualifying round, which was held online. The jury selected 40 of them to participate in the final in Kyiv. Thus, both schoolchildren and experienced team mentors took the opportunity to try to build their own aircraft models capable of conquering the sky. The event was organized by the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute's Educational and Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (Institute of MMI), and its partners were world leaders in the field of aircraft construction - Boeing Ukraine and Progresstech-Ukraine, as well as SkyUp Airlines and Supernova Airlines. Information support was provided by the Kyiv Small Academy of Sciences.
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According to the First Vice-Rector of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Mykhailo Bezuhlyi, who opened the final part of the competition, “the dreams of each participant of the competition - testing models for range and stability of their flight - are realizable.”
“The importance of this event is to popularize engineering specialties that are key to the future of our country and promising for students themselves,” says Natalia Seminska, the initiator of this competition, associate professor at the Institute of MMI. "Seven years ago, I held a similar competition at the Institute of Physics and Technology. And it was possible to implement all the plans for its holding, so to speak, to the fullest thanks to the support of business partners last year."
“Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute is a place for implementing bold projects and opening up opportunities for talented young people,” said Ihor Hryshko, director of the Institute of MMI. "And it is true: the most comfortable conditions were created for the participants: support from experienced mentors, housing, food, etc. The students were fully immersed in the process and were able to feel the atmosphere of university life.
After the competition, the participants listened with great attention to an interesting lecture with elements of an interactive game delivered by Vitaliy Grezin, a representative of Boeing Ukraine.
Yevhen Purdenko, a graduate of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and now a process engineer at Boeing Ukraine, is convinced that the first and second open engineering competitions “Build Your MRIYA”, in which he participated as a jury member, will be useful for school, gymnasium and lyceum graduates and will help them choose their faculty and educational program at the Kyiv Technical University.
During the conversation with the members of the winning team “Potuzhnichka” (senior age group) of this year's competition - Yevhen Beik, Tymofii Khomenko, Maksym Pasika, Yaroslav Telyashenko - I was convinced that it was the perseverance and interest in the competition of each of them that helped them win a prize.
Finally, here is the list of winners of the Second Open Engineering Competition for Schoolchildren “Build Your MRIYA”.
Younger group:
First place - the team “Unstoppable Everest”. Mentor: Anna Biletska. Team members: Ivan Bura, Polina Fedotkina, Maria Shekhovtsova, Denis Pavlenko.
Second place - Realists 1.0 team. Mentor - Mikhail Rybak. Team members: Erika Klepach, Andriy Savitsky, Margarita Shvets.
Third place - the team “Engineer of my dreams”. Mentor - Myroslava Nitchenko. Team members: Nicole Semigulina, Gleb Lipinsky, Alexander Masabanda, Alexandra Yakushevich.
Senior group:
First place - team “Potuzhnichki”. Mentor: Maria Ovsyannikova. Team members: Yevhen Beiko, Tymofii Khomenko, Maksym Pasika, Yaroslav Telyashenko.
Second place - ASKM-11 team. Mentor - Makar Vasilenko. Team members: Anastasia Orel, Mark Yatsuk, Sofia Dzoba, Kira Kovalets.
Third place - team "Maki". Mentor - Maria Hrytsak. Team members: Margarita Sidorova, Andriy Kotsepud, Kateryna Hokh, Igor Stelmakh.
We hope that soon most of them will become our students, because it is at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute that they will be able to acquire the knowledge and skills that will help them realize their dream of the sky.
The second open engineering competition “Build Your Mriya” at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute became a large-scale event that brought together talented young people from all over Ukraine.
📌 participants from 24 settlements
103 participants of the qualifying round
40 finalists
Students gathered at our university to design aircraft models and make launchers. The most exciting moment was testing the models for range and flight stability.
The participants got a unique chance not only to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and creativity, but also to gain valuable experience and touch the world of modern engineering thanks to the support of our partners - world leaders in aircraft construction:
- Boeing Ukraine;
- Progresstech-Ukraine;
- SkyUp Airlines;
- Supernova Airlines.
The contest is organized by the Educational and Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
The importance of such a competition is to popularize engineering specialties that are key to the future of our country and promising for students themselves.
The most comfortable conditions were created for the participants (support from experienced mentors, accommodation, meals, etc.). The students were fully immersed in the process, felt the atmosphere of university life, and many of them will choose Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a place of further study.
A special feature of the event was the participation of ambassadors - the winners of the first competition - who shared their experience and helped newcomers avoid mistakes.