Karaganda residents received grants to study at Astana IT University for winning the international STEM Olympiad

Tenth graders from Temirtau won the Grand Prix at the international competitions "STEM Olympiad - Innovations in Education" among students of grades 8-11, and eleventh graders from Karaganda won grants to study at Astana IT University.

More than 280 teams took part in the intellectual competition – more than 500 schoolchildren from 180 educational institutions of regions and cities of Kazakhstan, as well as students from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan.

The main prize is two grants for studying at Astana IT University. The winners also received game consoles, laptops, tablets with a built-in training program, smartphones, action cameras, smart watches, e-books.

Winners of the Grand Prix were students of the 10th grade of the Lyceum School No. 20 in Temirtau, Danil Lazarev and Artemiy Kochetov. Their leader is Aliz Akhmet. Schoolchildren were awarded a cup and a PlayStation for the victory.

Grants from Astana IT University were received by the Teen Spirit team – students of the 11th grade of the specialized boarding school "Daryn" Yerasyl Sovetov and Alibek Tasten. The head is Asel Kasym.

–STEM Olympiad was held in Astana for the first time at the international level. This year our students won grants to study at Astana IT University. To participate in the Olympics, the guys were tested in June – they had to create a mini-truck with a propeller and a mechanism for launching paper airplanes. All this was checked on the first day of the Olympiad, and in addition they were given another task. On the second day there was a programming and modeling test consisting of 120 questions. And according to the results of two rounds, the students scored the highest score, – said the team leader and computer science teacher of the specialized boarding school "Daryn" Assel Kasym.

Olympiad was organized by Astana Innovation JSC.