The 8th Real Project School expo has brought together employers who offer high school students real-life applied research projects to work on. The expo was held in Moscow on October 17, organized by the School of New Technologies and the Moscow Department of Information Technology and Education. The general partner of the competition is Oleg Deripaska’s Volnoe Delo Foundation.
The nearly 1,000 participants in Real Project School include students from 76 Moscow schools and 6 vocational colleges. In addition, over 500 students from 30 Russian regions participate in the competition online: the Irkutsk, Omsk, Kaliningrad, Vologda, Tomsk and Moscow regions, the Primorye, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar territories, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, the Republic of Karelia, and others. Starting this year, Real Project School has been held in Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan, giving the student competition international status.
As many as 70 employers offered 90 real-life cases for students to explore in the following categories: programming, education, application development, gamification, PR, marketing, robotics, ICT, the Internet of Things, augmented reality, social responsibility, design, psychology, volunteering, engineering and others.
The Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, as one of the prominent companies contributing the assignments, once again asked the participants to develop a game module devoted to digital technologies for the implementation on the Explore the Internet, Govern It! educational portal.
Schools can register for Real Project School until November 15. After that the teams will begin to work on their projects. They will be given four months until the qualifying round in April 2020; the winning teams will take part in the final project conference, where the names of the winners will be announced. The Coordination Center takes part in the Real Project School competition for the fourth time. The projects developed by schoolchildren were included the Knowledge section, in tests for a training mobile app and in the Explore the Internet, Govern It! quiz.
