SUEK's championship partner is raising cadres from school

For the sixth time, an educational career guidance shift "School of Young Miners" is being held on the basis of the Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College during the spring school holidays. The event is being held with the assistance of a long—term partner, JSC Urgalugol (part of JSC SUEK). This year, more than 50 eighth-graders from a multidisciplinary lyceum, gymnasium, and schools No. 2 and No. 10 in the mining village of Chegdomyn took part in the shift.

The school offers "young miners" the opportunity to participate in various career guidance events, none of which is boring. The guys are trying to drive dump trucks, excavators and bulldozers — while, of course, using modern training simulators, they conduct chemical analysis of rocks under the guidance of experienced mentors, get acquainted with 3D modeling and robotics.

"The shift program is not only educational, but also comprehensively developing. The children got acquainted with a variety of mining specialties and professions. We held workshops, cultural and sports events, where they became even more friends and acquired teamwork skills. Full immersion was provided by excursions to the production facilities of Urgalugol JSC, where children watch how professionals work from observation decks," said Alexander Morozov, Deputy Director for Educational and Production work at the Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College.

How to raise a miner

The School of Young Miners is just one of the links in a large—scale annual cycle of career guidance events. Traditionally, the college holds the Profi-Track festival for children of all ages, the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN League of Working Specialties, the Miner's Shift youth educational forum, etc. SUEK and the city-forming enterprise of the Urgalugol Group act as constant partners in all these events.

The company is interested in employing graduates of the college and actively participates in the modernization of its educational, material and technical base and the implementation of all career guidance projects. This year alone, two new classrooms in the areas of "Industrial Automation" and "Underground and mining operations", equipped with the most modern equipment, will be opened at the Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College with the support of JSC SUEK.

SUEK has built a system of support and interaction with educational institutions in all regions of its presence. The SUEK Classes program has been successfully operating at the school level for ten years, which includes various activities, from equipping modern classrooms and introducing new methods of teaching natural and exact disciplines to special excursions to leading regional universities and the company's enterprises. As a result of such systematic work, more than 75% of SUEK graduates enroll in technical universities, and 80% study on a budgetary basis. Many university graduates return to their hometowns and become employees of the company.

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