Champions of the Lipetsk School League create a mobile service for travelers

Danil Sviridov, Sofia Proskurina and Sergey Tereshchenko, champions of the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", graduates of the IT-cube Center for Digital Education for Children of the Lipetsk Region Center for Additional Education, have developed the LipCulture project, a mobile application with information about the sights and cultural events of the region. A team of young developers received a grant from the Lipetsk Fund for Support of Small and Medium-sized Businesses to implement the IT project.

– LipCulture is primarily focused on young people, – says the author and ideological inspirer of the project, 19-year-old Sofia Proskurina. – There are many beautiful but little-known places in our region. Thanks to the mobile service with interactive presentation of the material, everyone who is interested in cultural recreation will find something interesting for themselves.

Danil, Sofia and Sergey learned how to create mobile applications at the IT Cube Center. The interest in computer science and technical creativity brought the children to the Samsung IT School, where high school students gain practical skills in developing mobile applications in Java. IT is in the "IT cube" that a team of like-minded people has formed.

The Cubists' first successful project was the unique career guidance product "Schoolboy and Student Navigator" for NLMK, with which the guys won the engineering Case IN championship at Lipetsk State Technical University in 2020.

"Creating mobile applications involves not only the visual image that the user sees, but also the backend, the hardware and software part of the service responsible for ensuring that all functions work correctly and integration with external services is debugged," notes 18–year-old Danil Sviridov. – Our roles in the team were distributed as follows: mobile development – Sergey and Sofia; backend – me.

For each of the Cubists, the Navigator of a Schoolboy and a Student became the first major socially significant project. The mobile application, by the way, is available for download on the Play Market and Huawei AppGallery.

– The year of study at IT Cube was important for all of us, – Sergey Tereshchenko admits. – We have gained a good base in development and programming, and experience in creating a commercial project. In addition, this year proved to be crucial in choosing a profession.

Currently, Danil Sviridov and Sofya Proskurina, graduates of the IT Cube Center, are students of the Faculty of Automation and Computer Science of LGTU in the field of software engineering. Sergey Tereshchenko is already working in the professional field. But the guys keep talking. They admit that they enjoy working in a team. In addition, their joint skills allow them to implement almost any conceived projects. Young programmers fill in the missing knowledge through training programs and hackathons.

A mobile service for travelers and outdoor enthusiasts is a new project that students Danilo and Sofia will have to implement in the coming year. But the guys already have ideas and developments for new mobile applications, which they are still keeping silent about.

– It is a special pleasure for me to observe how graduates of the IT-Cube Center, having received an impressive background in the form of IT knowledge, are determined on a professional trajectory, - says Irina Malko, director of the Center for Additional Education of the Lipetsk region. – This year, IT Cube will host more than 500 students who are interested in programming, showing interest in the technical field, mathematics and other exact sciences. May the successes of our graduates become an example for them.

The IT-Cube Center for Digital Education for Children is an innovative educational platform created in Lipetsk under the national project "Education". The training is conducted in 16 educational programs, including the creation of mobile applications in the Samsung IT School (grades 10-11). The training is free.

A source:  Lipetsk Media