Gazeta.ru reported on unusual projects for Russian school children, including a VR application for career guidance by young female developers from Verkhnyaya Salda, who won the Empathy Foundation's youth engineering accelerator.
What is planned in Oktava and other creative clusters in the near future, is discussed by the managers and curators in an article by Buro 24/7. The founder of the cluster and the Empathy Foundation, Mikhail Shelkov is sure that the city’s residents can give their suggestions and participate in the development of the site. Only in this way will Oktava have what both children and adults need not only for entertainment, but also for self-development.
The editors noticed that the region doesn’t disclose information about teachers' salaries. However, judging by what teachers themselves say, one of the highest levels of salaries in the region is in Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Salda.
Two academic years have passed since the launch of one of the most ambitious projects of Mikhail Shelkov's Empathy Foundation. The program to support teachers in Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Salda gives each teacher an opportunity to receive an additional 15 000 rubles per month (217 USD). Teachers shared their stories about how financial support from the Empathy Foundation helps their professional development.
On May 24, the official opening of a new space - the first co-working space in Tula, located on the fourth floor of the Oktava Cluster - took place. The platform had been launched in test mode back in early May 2022.
The Empathy Charitable Foundation congratulated Maria Ksenofontova, a 10th-grader, on winning the final stage of the "Start in Science" international competition and presented her with a cash prize. This is not the first success of a schoolgirl from Nizhnyaya Salda; Maria previously won the foundation's engineering accelerator.
The competition for teachers, titled "Teaching as a Calling" will be held in the Tula Region with the support of the Empathy Foundation in the coming summer, and its total prize money has been increased from 7 to 11 million rubles (from 100 000 to 170 000 USD). More than 50 school teachers, social pedagogues, teachers at technical schools, colleges and other education workers can become winners.
Elle Girl understands how difficult it is for graduates to decide on their future profession, and offers the chance to try the "7 Steps to Choosing a Profession" methodology, while also talking about the career guidance VR-application of the Salda schoolgirls.
Pupils from Secondary School No. 1 successfully simulated the flight of the Soyuz-MS spacecraft. This open lesson concluded the online course of the Summer Space School on cosmonautics, astrophysics and space engineering, organized in Verkhnyaya Salda with the support of Mikhail Shelkov's Empathy Charitable Foundation.
A team from Verkhnyaya and Nizhnyaya Salda made it to the finals of the federal scientific and practical conference "Start in Innovations". The winners of the youth engineering accelerator Masterskaya: Salda 2.0 conquered the capital's competitions.
A new corporate scholarship has been established at MGIMO on the initiative of Mikhail Shelkov, a member of the university's board of trustees, and Rector A.V. Torkunov.
The Psychological Workshop project was launched in the Sverdlovsk Region. Its goal is to improve the psychological literacy of parents and form a favorable psychological climate in schools. More than 180 teachers, parents and school children from Verkhnyaya Salda participated in the first meetings.