"Water desalination and photocatalysis": Kodinsky schoolchildren received support from Boguchanskaya HPP

In 2019-2020, students of the Center for Additional Education for Children in the city of Kodinsk, including students of the specialized Energy Class of RusHydro, actively participated in project activities aimed at training young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

PJSC Boguchanskaya HPP annually provides financial and organizational assistance during the educational process, equipping classrooms, conducting training sessions, technical creativity contests and other events.

"In 2020, the seventh edition of the Kodinsky Energy Class took place. The guys who studied for three years participated in many of our projects, both educational and environmental. I wish you all successful admission to universities. Congratulations to the participants of the contest who received vouchers for the #Wave of the Future: this is a great achievement, which will be followed by new interesting projects, new acquaintances and, hopefully, a choice of profession in the energy industry. We always need specialists who are able to look to the future and think outside the box," said Vsevolod Demchenko, General Director of PJSC Boguchanskaya HPP.

According to the results of the All-Russian competition "UniCvant Campus of Youth Innovations", eight students of the Central School of Economics as part of two teams received permits to the All-Russian Children's Center Ocean and the opportunity to participate in the #Wave shift.

"In the 2019-2020 academic year, 18 of our students, as part of five teams, participated in the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", an international competition system for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren and students. The next stage of work on the projects was participation in the All-Russian competition for training in the thematic program "Campus of Youth innovations "UniCvant" in the All-Russian centers "Ocean" and "Shift“. The competition and further work are devoted to advanced areas of science: biology and biotechnology, chemistry and nanotechnology, soil science and ecology, agrotechnology and communities, biophysics and biophotonics, neurotechnology and neurobiology," said Svetlana Khlestunova, Acting Director of the CDOD.

The students who participated in the projects could choose a task based on one of the topics proposed by the organizers: seawater desalination, photocatalysis, technology for obtaining humates from biological raw materials. While working on projects, students at the Data Center could participate in the development and creation of "smart devices" that interact with surrounding objects.

The overall task of the shift was the development of soft competencies in the framework of task setting, research, project management and teamwork. CDOD students developed their own seawater desalination projects, explored the possibilities of building materials based on layered and twisted fibers (the so-called "Bully structures"), analyzed the work of a microbial fuel cell, built a smart home, and explored the possibilities of breeding and using chlorella green algae.

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