🎥 Build Your Dream: the first engineering competition from Kyiv Polytechnic for schoolchildren

Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute held a competition for those who plan to get an engineering education, like to solve complex problems and bring creative ideas to life. More than 30 students from different parts of Ukraine came to try on the role of aircraft designers, who showed good results in physics and performed well in the creative task at the first stage of the competition.

The best pupils of grades 8-11 made it to the second, most interesting and challenging stage - to build and launch their glider into the air. After more than five intense hours of work, they were able to design, build and launch their dream gliders for the first flight. The idea of the competition came to the teachers and administration of the Institute of MMI of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute two years ago under the auspices of promoting engineering education in Ukraine.

‘We really need to restore and revive engineering education. We want to see motivated schoolchildren, individuals who will become our students and later graduate students and will be able to further advance science,’ said Igor Hryshko, Director of the Educational and Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (Institute of MMI) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

‘We want motivated boys and girls who want to make a difference in our country, who have a knack for physics and mathematics, and who want to become real engineers,’ says Nataliia Seminska, PhD in Engineering, Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Hydroaeromechanics and Mechatronics at Institute of MMI the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Kyiv Polytechnic was supported in conducting and mentoring students by partners:

📌 Boeing Ukraine;

📌 Progresstech-Ukraine;

📌 SkyUp Airlines;

📌 Supernova Airlines.

‘Engineering helps children with a technical mindset to understand what certain formulas mean from personal experience. Here, they calculated something on paper, then constructed it with their own hands, and it works exactly as they want it to. They begin to understand what engineering is and why it is needed, and in the future they will become motivated professionals who are very much needed in our country and Ukrainian business,’ Yaroslav Krasnozhen, Director of Supernova Airlines.

The competition showed a keen interest of boys and girls in engineering - and now most of them are ready to get a high-quality technical education at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute!