Festival of Technical and Engineering Creativity Will Be Held at the Novosibirsk Expo Centre International Exhibition Complex

On May 10-11 the Novosibirsk Expo Centre International Exhibition Complex will be hosting the Festival of Technical Creativity Engeneration-2014. The event will become a unified platform of Siberia and the Far East for communication, business, education, and contests in the sphere of technical creativity.

The Festival unites and demonstrates all facets of engineering and technical creativity presented in the following sections:

• Robotic engineering contests.
• Robotronic sports contestsincluding the regional selective stage of WRO-2014 (students of schools and higher education institutions can participate in the contests in certain age categories).    
• Exponenta – engineering creativity exhibition.

The exhibition part of the Festival will be held on May 11. Education institutions are invited to take part in the event. Admittance to the Exhibition is free of charge.

The list of Engeneration-2014 includes a panel discussion ‘Engineering Education. Problems and Prospects’. Among the speakers of the discussion are leading Russian engineers and specialists in the sphere of innovative methods of technical education:

1. ‘Developing education robotronics in Russia’. Report delivered by the President of the Russian Association of Education Robotronics M.V. Vasilyev.
2. ‘Sports and technical events as a talent foundry in the sphere of technical engineering’. Report delivered by Research Advisor of the Program ‘Robotronics. Engineers and Technical Specialists of Innovative Russia’ A.V. Kornilov
3. ‘Engineering creative activities in schools and higher education institutions. Recreating the ‘School – Higher Education Institution – Enterprise’ chain’. Report delivered by the Head of the Open Association of Robotic Engineers ‘League of Robots’, coach of the Russian Robotronics Team N. Yu. Pak. 

Apart from that, the Festival will also feature a creative engineering platform – ‘Open Lab’  created by the specialists of the League of Robots Association whose functioning is based on the FabLab and HackerSpace principles, when anyone is able to freely join the engineering community. In the future such open workshops may become the missing link of the inter-disciplinary course that will bring together higher education institutions, organize their work, and allow training high-level multi-skilled specialists.