Republican competition “Solve for Tomorrow: from idea to model”

On 8-10 September, 2023, Astana IT University (Astana city) hosted the final of the four-month republican competition of social projects among middle and high school students “Solve for Tomorrow: from idea to model”. Samsung's initiative helps future young leaders develop creative skills and creatively solve important problems through science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Out of 413 teams of Kazakhstan, our region’s team “Mechatronics” is the youngest among all the participants of the competition. The learners of the 7th grade of Lyceum School No. 1 of Education Department of Ridder town, Ivan Gribenshchikov and Artemiy Nechayev, recipients of the grant of Akim of East Kazakhstan region for the development of the IT StartUp project “Robot Disinfector”, made it to the top ten finalists and won a certificate worth KZT 300,000 for the development of their startup project concept.

The participants and winners of the competition were awarded by:

Vice-Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kamil Akatov, First Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kanysh Tuleushin, the Chair of the Board of SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CENTRAL EURASIA Minki Chu.

The judging panel included: Adil Mergenbayev, an expert of Human Capital Development Department of Atameken, Ekaterina Novoselova, a startup business tracker, Bakytzhanuly Maulen, a communication engineer at SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CENTRAL EURASIA, Anarbek Utegulov, a co-leader of the Central Asian branch of the Founder Institute, Sapar Toksanov, Director of Astana IT Competence Center.

Our congratulations to the winners and their mentor, Yuri B. Kotvitsky, and we wish them further creative success!

Moderator: Aigul Kh. Zhelpakova, a methodologist of Methodological Department for Innovative Projects Implementation.