Olympiad at SPbGASU
SPbGASU summed up the results of the All-Russian Student Olympiad in the field of study 08.03.01 "Civil engineering", dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The award ceremony for the winners took place in the Academic Council Hall on 11 April.
The dean of the SPbGASU Faculty of Civil Engineering Andrey Nikulin addressed the participants with a welcoming speech: "We want our students to be leaders, successful people who have solved all the problems. This is the natural desire of any mentor - for their students to be the first. Every second participant will receive diplomas of winners and awards from SPbGASU partners. Those who did not make it to the prize winners - look where you can become better, more organized, more purposeful. Moving forward is overcoming difficulties. And no obstacles can stop you!"
Representatives of partner companies introduced their products.
Sergey Turitsyn, Commercial Director of Yalux Group LLC, gave a lecture on the company's activities, which produces unplasticized PVC sheets.
Tatiana Andreeva, event manager for the St Petersburg branch of JSC TD Vostok-Service, called on students to pay close attention to safety issues in their future professional activities.
Irina Letunovskaya, marketing specialist at the Association "Consortium "Kodeks", spoke about what useful things teachers and students can learn with the help of the services "TechExpert" and "Kodeks".
Olga Garipova, a specialist in the HR department of LSR Group, invited students to internships and then to work.
The places were distributed as follows.
First place – Timur Abdullin (Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering).
Second place – Aleksandr Martynov (Tyumen Industrial University).
Third place – Ilyas Valitov (Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering).
The winners shared their impressions of the competition.
Ilyas Valitov is sure: simply memorizing the material is not very effective. Knowledge is absorbed better in practice. When I solved several problems, the physical meaning of the formula became clear. "I knew that the test part would have questions on history, on the Great Patriotic War. This is my favorite topic, I love and know history. Since it was unknown what kind of questions there would be, I learned more," said Ilyas.
Timur Abdullin, a student at the Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and winner of the Olympiad, admitted that it was difficult during the preparation. “Since the Olympiad included a wide range of topics, I had to brush up on my knowledge and set priorities. I prepared hard for both the intra-university round, where there was also a lot of competition, and for the final stage. And, apparently, I made the right accents. It wasn’t that difficult at the Olympiad itself.”
The students' mentors shared their opinions on the benefits of the event.
Alla Grishina, Associate Professor at the Department of Construction Production and Geotechnics at Perm National Research Polytechnic University, member of the jury said: “There are “stars”, whom we saw today at the awards ceremony, who really showed themselves in both the humanities part of the test and in technical problems. Looking at such students, it is easier to work - because very often we, teachers, are put into a strict framework so that we focus on unsuccessful students. And we completely forget about the successful ones, about the prosperous ones. When you see such students at Olympiads, conferences, project competitions - it inspires you to work further. You understand that everything is not in vain. Such events are important first of all for teachers - to get inspired, to get a charge for new achievements. For students, this is also great. To test yourself, to remember what you studied, to meet other guys, to see a beautiful city.”
Leonid Gilev, Head of the Department of Building Structures and Construction Production at the Ural State Transport University, member of the appeals committee: “Any competition is always useful. Firstly, to feel what you are like. Secondly, to see how prepared other students are, to compete, to feel the excitement. We try to participate in these events. In my lectures I say: whoever wants to participate, raise your hands. They do. If someone has done sports, they understand what it is.”
