The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) is determined to make research and engineering activities interesting for children and has already initiated the opening of children's technology parks in many cities of our country. Let's figure out what a technology park is and how it will be useful for additional education.

In recent years, the majority of Russian children have chosen institutions of additional education with a purely cultural or sports orientation. If we look at official statistics, only 4% of schoolchildren visit homes and technical creativity centers. The reason for this is not only the low popularity of such institutions, but also their small number in the regions.

Agency for Strategic Initiatives(ASI) is determined to correct the situation and has already initiated the opening of children's technology parks in many cities of our country. Let's figure out what a technology park is and how it will be useful for additional education.

Where did the initiative come from?

A network of children's technology parks is being formed as part of the implementation of a project developed by ASI. These comrades set out to make research and engineering activities interesting for children. ASI specialists take a clear position that Russia will not be able to become one of the leading high-tech states in the near future if the model of additional education they propose is not used today.

The first technology park under the brand " Quantorium"was opened back in November 2015 in Khanty-Mansiysk and immediately became the object of increased attention from schoolchildren.

As of January 2017, there is already a network of 24 Quantoriums operating in Russia, the geography of which covers almost all regions of our country: from Kaliningrad to Komsomolsk-on-Amur. It is planned that by the end of the year their number will increase to 40.

The implementation of the project is actively promoted by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Also among the project partners are Rosatom, Gazprom, Lukoil, Skolkovo, KAMAZ and a number of other enterprises interested in developing the scientific potential of the Russian Federation.

What is a children's technology park?

Children's technology parks"Quantorium" is a platform where schoolchildren, in the format of projects, solve real problems within the framework of promising natural science and technical fields.

The word “quant” refers to all areas of training practiced in Russian technology parks. Among them are:

• neuroquantum;
• bioquantum;
• cosmoquantum;
• autoquantum;
• aeroquantum;
• roboquantum;
• IT quantum.

And this is still an incomplete list. But even looking at it, one can understand that “Quantoriums” cover a wide variety of areas of scientific and engineering activity.

The infrastructure of each technology park includes specialized laboratories and workshops, for example: an IT workshop, a materials processing workshop or a high-tech equipment workshop.

Expected results of technology parks

According to the ASI project, the active work of a network of children's technology parks throughout the country will contribute to:

• The emergence of new highly qualified personnel, taking into account the specialization of enterprises.
• Preparation and planning of the personnel reserve by identifying young talents.
• Reviving the prestige of engineering and scientific professions among young people.
• Technological breakthrough of the Russian Federation.

The plans are, of course, global. But if in the future the organizers show the same enthusiasm and serious approach as today, then they are quite feasible. Especially considering the obvious interest on the part of the state.

How is training conducted at the technopark?

Quantoriums accept children aged 5 to 18 years. The full course of study lasts 2 years. Classes lasting 5 hours per week are free of charge. But even after their completion, the child can spend his free time on the playground, using any equipment.

A child who shows even the slightest interest in technical sciences or engineering will always find something to do in the technology park. Moreover, mastering advanced technologies and acquiring practical skills occurs naturally and easily, since all classes take place in a playful way. This is reflected in the focus of the training program on an activity-oriented approach.

During the first half of the year, children get to know everyone in general areas of work of the technology park, learn to operate machines and other high-tech equipment, and after that they choose what they like best. Although in the future, each child is free to move from one “quantum” to another at will.

On the basis of technology parks, schoolchildren can create their own projects using the most modern equipment. At the same time, their work will be supervised by industry experts and university teachers.

It is interesting that the most talented “Kulibins” will be able to take part in international competitions in leading sectors of technological development.

Among other things, the educational program is focused on preparing children for admission to technical universities. Therefore, classes in the technology park should in no way be identified with visits to clubs, interest clubs or sections of the “Young Technician” type.

In the educational process, attention is also paid to such important points as developing the ability to competently interact in team work on a project and obtaining cross-subject competencies. As a result, after studying at Quantorium, the child will be able not only to understand the basics of research or engineering, but will also understand how to conduct the entire project “FROM AND TO”, including the correct goal setting, distribution of responsibilities and assessment of the competitiveness of the project.

Instead of a conclusion

Children's technical park is an innovative approach to the work of the new system of additional education. Thanks to technology parks, Russian children will be able to acquire initial professional knowledge and skills in technical disciplines at the highest level. Surely such a move will increase the number of highly qualified specialists in Russia and raise our science to a completely new level.

Image sources: rustep.com, itpark-chelny.ru, sdelanounas.ru

Today we want to talk about one unusual school in Perm, where robotics training has been successfully conducted for several years, and right now the promising “Educational Technopark” project is being implemented. The unusualness of this school lies in its absolute normality - it is a school in a residential area of ​​the city, which at some point began to break stereotypes and the system. The history of the school is also the history of Perm educational robotics. So, the word is from the director of school No. 135 - Alexey Sergeevich Kulyapin.

The prospects for the development of school No. 135 are related to the introduction of educational robotics as the foundation of career guidance for highly qualified engineering and blue-collar professions.

Currently, educational robotics in schools is becoming increasingly important and relevant. Thanks to the study of robotics, technical creativity aimed at designing and constructing robots, it became possible to further motivate schoolchildren to study physics, mathematics, computer science, choose engineering specialties, and design a career in industrial production

A project is being implemented at school "Educational Technopark". It is aimed at modeling a pedagogical system that would meet the development trends of modern society and at the same time would allow us to begin preparing teachers and schoolchildren for real participation in scientific and technological progress and motivate them to master engineering, technical and military-technical professions.

The school technology park is considered as a system of professional tests and practices for students, makes it possible to create an effective career guidance system for students, to popularize in-demand engineering and technical specialties among schoolchildren and their parents; contributes to the creation of a system for identifying and motivating “tech-stars” of primary, secondary and high schools within the framework of network interaction of educational institutions in Perm.

The design of the school technology park became possible thanks to systematic long-term preparatory work, which has already brought worthy results.

About school

School No. 135 is the winner of the PNGO “Education” competition. It is part of the University Districts of the Perm Classical University (PGNIU) and the Perm Pedagogical University (PGGPU) as a center of innovative experience. He is a member of the network of innovative schools of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Education (Ekaterinburg, 2010), author and developer of the city program “School + Profession”, 2009; winner of competition "The best electronic educational resources"(website " Journey into the world of CNC machines", 2010) within the framework of the activities of the University District of PGGPU; organizer of the activities of the association of teachers of technological and specialized training “Navigator of Professionals”; initiator of the city and regional competition of creative works of students and the competition of teaching materials for teachers in the educational field “Technology” 100 roads - one is yours" since 2008.

MAOU "Secondary School No. 135" is part of the network of testing sites of the Ministry of Education of the Perm Territory for the introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard for primary general education, and the Department of Education for testing the municipal model of a basic school.

School No. 135 is a resource center of the Perm Department of Education to support the teaching of the subject “Technology”.

School No. 135 is a multidisciplinary school of technological (engineering) education, working in priority areas: improving the quality of education through designing the content and technologies of pre-profile training and specialized education; advanced training of teachers in the context of specialized training; development of the educational system based on self-government, project activities, professional self-determination. The school organizes specialized education according to individual curricula together with institutions of higher and secondary vocational education. The school implements professional tests for high school students in the process of educational and creative workshops.

The Center for Innovative Experience of Secondary School No. 135 organizes advanced training courses for heads of educational institutions, teachers of pre-professional training and specialized training, and tutors. The school’s teachers have developed and are testing a system of career guidance elective courses “Perm is industrial. Choosing an educational route» within the framework of a network educational project to orient young people towards vocational training and work in mechanical engineering.

Over the past three years, more than 10 innovative projects at the Russian, regional, municipal, and institutional levels have been developed and implemented, most of them have been implemented.

The teaching staff introduces design technologies, tutoring, developmental education systems, and information and communication technologies into the educational process.

About the project "Educational Technopark"

The implementation of the Educational Technology Park project is a further path for the development of the subject and educational field of Technology in school education. The school is a pilot school for the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation to test a new program in the subject “Technology”.

The main goal is to create a system of technological training for schoolchildren, through individual educational trajectories in the “Educational Technopark”, aimed at the industrial sector of the economy of Perm.

To do this, it is necessary to develop in the student the ability to make a better choice of his own individual educational trajectory through the multi-activity principle of organizing the “Educational Technopark”, the task of which is to include students at all levels of education in the real positive social and sociocultural practice of choosing a future profession.

To create a model of a school graduate ready for productive work in the industrial, scientific and technical sectors of the economy.

For this purpose, age zones of the Educational Technopark have been developed:

• Primary school – “Designing and imagining.”
• Basic school – “Immersion” in a profession, the basis for choice.
• High school - “The architect of your own happiness”, building an individual educational program through professional tests and professional practices.

One of the first steps to update technological education was the development of programs for both classroom and extracurricular activities.

The following programs have been developed for elementary school students as part of extracurricular activities: "World of Professions", , "Legoconstruction", "The world around us", "Modeling" and other programs "Legoconstruction" And "Project activity" contribute to the development of students' creative abilities through design and design activities. Extracurricular activities program "Young cartoon designer" is focused on developing children's creative abilities through the use of fine arts in the process of working with the digital environment, developing basic user computer skills and mastering information technology tools.

About the teaching staff

School teachers Kulyapin Alexey Sergeevich And Ershov Mikhail Georgievich became winners of two methodological competitions within the framework of the All-Russian festival "Robofest -2013" "Best project for the development of the resource center of the Robotics program" And “The best program for the use of robotics in natural science subjects”.

In 2013 Ershov M.G. became the winner of the All-Russian methodological competition “Innovative activities of teachers and students at school”, with the methodological development of the use of robotics in teaching physics, held as part of the II international conference "Engineering culture: from school to production".

In 2013 and 2014, the school took part in presentations at All-Russian conferences “Methodology for teaching the basics of robotics to schoolchildren in basic and additional education”. The school's teachers have more than 10 publications on the use of robotics in the educational process.

Since 2013, the school, together with PGGPU, has been implementing the project “PGGPU in the system of scientific, methodological, personnel and resource support for the development of educational robotics as a learning technology and a means of professional orientation of schoolchildren for engineering and technical specialties.”

About the methodology of teaching robotics

To implement the introduction of robotics into the educational process, the following projects were developed:

• “We create a career with robots ourselves!”: the goal of the project is to create a community of pupils, students, teachers of secondary and higher schools who organize professional tests in robotics (competitions, olympiads, programs, training);
• "With robots into the future": the project is aimed at creating clubs and a robotics club at school.

The implementation of these projects is carried out through the mechanism of individualization of education, inclusion of a tutor in the educational process.

With the participation of the tutor, individual educational routes for students are built, their own individual curriculum is formed from a set of subjects and courses offered by the Educational Technopark. The main thing in the work of a tutor is to identify capable students - “techno-stars”, help in determining individual educational trajectories taking into account the inclinations and interests of schoolchildren, accompanying the student in high school according to an individual educational plan. Professional self-determination is being built in a similar vein, which involves providing technology-oriented children with potential, desire and technical and mathematical thinking with the opportunity to receive additional education in the Technopark. The educational process in the Educational Technology Park is focused on the professional self-determination of the student through practice-oriented courses, pre-profile and specialized training, joint activities of the teacher and the student in educational and creative workshops, in the proposed professional tests and practices.

At the same time, the qualifications of teachers are being improved. During the implementation of the project, on the basis of the school technology park, teachers of the school and city schools, additional education institutions are being retrained in order to master innovations for the implementation of the project and introduce them into the practice of the teaching staff of the school, transferring experience to the pedagogical community of Perm.

Social partners provide significant support. On the basis of agreements with social partners, forces are consolidated within the project in order to attract the necessary additional resources to achieve the goal, coordinate issues of equipping participants in the educational process with modern equipment and software, use the Educational Technology Park as a base platform for holding meetings and on-site classes of social partners.

The activities of schoolchildren in the Educational Technology Park are based on a scientific approach to research educational activities, for which laboratories are created through the variable part of the Curriculum. The results of such extracurricular activities are demonstrated at competitions, contests, Olympiads, and festivals.

About victories

The achievements of students who are passionate about robotics are especially valuable.

In February 2012, in Perm, employees of school No. 135 organized the first city open competition in robotics. Representatives of only three educational institutions took part in it. At the regional Technology Olympiad (2012), only school No. 135 presented project work using robotics.

At the exhibition "Education and Career - 2012" An open regional robotics tournament was held, in which 2 school teams participated. The school's teams took first place in the first regional robotics festival (2012), represented the Perm region in Moscow (2012), where they won the audience award.

The school delegation took part in the All-Russian Robotics Festival "Robofest -2013", representing 3 teams. Team "Diamond" took 2nd place in the category "Freestyle" with the project "Machining center".

In November 2013, the school team won the competition "Young Kulibins of the Perm Territory" with the project "Robot airbrush".

In 2014, 9 teams from the school became prize-winners of the regional festival "Robofest -2014", and in February 2014 at the All-Russian Robotics Festival took 3rd place in the category "Freestyle" and 1st place in the All-Russian conference "Roboboom", which took place as part of the Festival. In 2014, the school’s teams became winners and prize-winners of city and regional competitions "Unique robot in Perm", "WRO - 2014", competition within the exhibition, "Roboleto -2014", a competition held as part of the regional conference "Educational robotics: technointelligence-2014".

In 2013 and 2014, the school became the absolute winner in the team competition of the regional robotics competitions.

Each student studying in the specialized areas of the Technopark undergoes an internship in a modern production facility and receives the opportunity to find employment in their chosen specialty.

As a result, a graduate with a high degree of self-determination and motivation to enter secondary vocational and higher educational institutions of a technical orientation, since he is actually provided with the opportunity to choose a training profile and an individual trajectory for mastering the educational program.

Photo School 135 and Entertaining robotics

Muscovites have a wonderful opportunity to distract children from computer games and show them something more exciting. Two unusual technology parks have opened in the capital, where schoolchildren can learn for free how to design robots, assemble drones or, for example, solar-powered cars.

"Quantoriums" is the name given to children's technology parks that work next to "adults." This was done specifically so that children work in conditions as close as possible to real ones: they have modern workshops, computer equipment, 3D printers and active recreation areas at their disposal. As the RG correspondent was told in the press service of the department of science, industrial policy and entrepreneurship, the first Quantorium operates on the territory of the Mosgormash technology park, the second in the Moscow technopolis.

Once upon a time, schoolchildren dreamed of seeing at least one artificial satellite, but today teenagers have the opportunity to assemble such devices. Children's technology parks have all the conditions for this. "Quantorium" is structured like a modern design institute: there are lecture halls where children are given basic technical knowledge, and workshops where children solve practical problems. Teachers assure: now boys and girls are much more interested in doing something with their own hands than reading a paragraph in a physics textbook once again. And the effect is no less! For example, whole groups of guys appeared in Quantoriums who had not yet taken the Unified State Exam, but had already become famous for their useful inventions. Just look at the cost of quadcopters for pizza delivery, which can save culinary businesses millions of rubles. And for potential consumers, delivery drivers can spend several hours stuck in traffic jams. After all, even a nine score on Yandex is not scary for a drone.

Graduates of children's technology parks can sign deferred employment contracts

The most important thing is that the technology park is not just learning from bell to bell. Practice shows: guys don’t keep track of time when working on their projects. But, of course, not every student can immediately decide on their interests in technology. That is why in technology parks children are first instilled with an engineering culture; during this course, the teenager will decide on his interests. Although it is important to understand that each project involves the participation of guys with different skills and knowledge. Take "Anthill on Mars" for example. This is how Quantorium called a special organism: the synthesis of a bacterium and an ant. It will later be possible to launch it onto the surface of Mars. To work on it, specialists in the field of robotics, biology, mathematics and other disciplines are needed.

Residents of children's technology parks have already taught quadcopters to deliver pizza to any area. Photo: Sergey Mikheev/RG

The most interesting classes are those in which children gain engineering skills. But Quantoriums, as noted in the science department, also conduct on-site school lessons in the technology park. University teachers also come, so there is a chance that a talented student will be noticed at a prestigious educational institution. Residents of “adult” technology parks who develop complex electronics also offer their tasks.

Based on the results of training in children's technology parks, the children defend their own project in front of famous Moscow scientists and managers of existing innovative industries. And this is a direct road to a prestigious and decently paid job. “For graduates of children's technology parks who successfully defend their scientific and applied project, there is the possibility of signing a deferred employment contract with large Moscow enterprises,” noted the department of science. Just recently, innovative corporations signed such agreements with 25 technology park students. They are not formally graduates yet, but they have already made an indelible impression on production workers during joint classes. The agreement guarantees that a graduate of the technology park will receive a certain position in production as soon as he graduates from the university.

Specifically

What do they teach in children's technology parks?

Technopark "Mosgormash" at the address: Kashirsky proezd, 13, offers schoolchildren to study in the following areas:

• robotics;
• geoinformatics;
• astronautics.

The focus of Quantorium at the Moscow technopolis is even broader:

• robotics;
• aviation;
• Industrial Design;
• energy;
• nanotechnology.

How to identify a child for a technopark

You can sign up for the children's technology park by filling out a form on the website dnpp.mos.ru. At the same time, there are no restrictions for the children: the child may not have any skills in working with technology at all, the main thing is interest. Children will be taught how to operate cutting-edge equipment and will develop skills in design, development and invention.

Seven children's technology parks have been opened in Moscow, where they teach robotics, geoinformatics, aircraft modeling, design and much more. We tell you everything parents need to know: how to sign up, where to go and whether they need to pay for classes.

What is a children's technology park?

The Children's Technology Park is a platform where high school students get acquainted with high-tech equipment and specialized programs. Here the children master advanced technologies, learn to work in a team and apply the acquired skills to create their own projects. Children's technology parks are opened in order to raise the prestige of blue-collar and engineering professions and to create a base for training new professional personnel.

Where are there technology parks for children in Moscow?

There are now seven children's technology parks in the city. The first two opened in 2016 on the basis of the Mosgormash technology park (Kashirsky Proezd, building 13, building 4) and the Moscow technopolis (Volgogradsky Prospekt, building 42, building 13). One opened in November 2017 - “Baytik” in Troitsk (Sirenevy Boulevard, building 11). Four opened in December 2017 - on the basis of the Moscow Packaging Center (Sorge Street, building 9a), in the Kalibr technology park (Godovikov Street, building 9), in the Skolkovo technology park, as well as at the Moscow University of Finance and Law (street Vvedensky, house 1a).

Five more will appear before the end of the year. These will be children's technology parks on the basis of the Moscow Polytechnic University (Lefortovsky Val street, building 26), at the National Research University "MIET" (Zelenograd, Shokin Square, building 2), on the basis of the Russian State Social University (Begovaya street, building 12), Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman (Gospitalny lane, building 4/6) and at VDNKh. In 2018, another children's technology park will open on the basis of the Kurchatov Institute.

What do they teach in technology parks?

Each technology park has its own set of programs. In the Moscow technopolis they study aircraft modeling, robotics, nanotechnology, industrial design and energy. Young aviators learn to design and assemble copters, and roboticists learn to design and program robots. In industrial design classes, children come up with design solutions for various technological products - from a machine tool to a car. And the Nanotechnology program teaches synthesis and modification at the micro- and nanolevels.

Mosgormash has three laboratories: geoinformatics, astronautics and robotics.

“Baytik” also has three laboratories in which classes are taught in eight areas: “Programming”, “Robotics”, “Aircraft”, “3D modeling and prototyping”, “3D visualization and computer animation”, “Video editing” , “Interface Design” and “Internet of Things”.

The Technopark of the Moscow Packaging Center offers children to study not only in technical areas (“Architecture and Design”, “Layout Design”, “Engineering Solutions”), but also in programs that will help teenagers gain knowledge and skills in the field of promotion and legal registration of projects.

Children's technology park "Caliber" specializes in 3D modeling and computer animation. Four laboratories have already been opened for young animators: “Fundamentals of 3D Modeling”, “Computer Animation and Motion Capture Technologies”, “Computer Animation in Virtual Reality”, “Computer Animation in Augmented Reality”.

In the flagship Quantorium in Skolkovo there are 12 laboratories for teenagers: astronautics, robotics, geoinformatics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, aircraft modeling, information technology, VR/AR (studying the basics of virtual reality, as well as the development and creation of programs and applications in this area ), energy, automodelling, cognitive research (studying the basics of artificial intelligence), industrial design.

A distinctive feature of the technology park in Skolkovo is that it offers classes in all the main areas of children's creativity, and teachers from similar technology parks for children are also trained here.

In the “Naukograd” of the Moscow University of Finance and Law, from February 1, 2018, four laboratories will operate: architecture and geoinformatics (study and design of geographic information systems), IT (study of the fundamentals of programming), graphic and industrial design (study of the fundamentals of design, design in 3D) and robotics (studying the basics of robotics, types and types of robots, artificial intelligence).

There is also a film lecture hall for holding lectures, discussions, round tables, watching scientific films and discussions with leading industry experts. Until February 1, 2018, when the main training programs are launched, master classes will be held in the children's technology park.

How can children use this knowledge?

Classes in technology parks develop practical engineering and design skills in children. They learn to work on modern equipment, gain knowledge and skills of scientific, technical and engineering professions, and after completing the entire course they can enter into deferred employment contracts with leading companies. And the most talented graduates of children's technology parks can get the opportunity to enter specialized universities on preferential terms.

What age are the classes intended for?

Technology parks "Moscow" and "Mosgormash" have developed programs for teenagers aged 13-17 years, "Baytik" - for 14-17 year olds. Children from 10 years old come to “Naukograd” for master classes, and classes are designed for schoolchildren from 14 years old. You can enroll children from 14 to 18 years old in children's technology parks based on the Moscow Packaging Center and Kalibr Technology Park, and in Skolkovo - from 12 years old.

Are the lessons paid?

In the technology parks "Mosgormash", "Moscow" and "Skolkovo" classes are free, in "Baytik" - paid, in "Naukograd" there are both paid and free classes, in the technology parks "Kalibr" and the Moscow Packaging Center classes are paid, but at Free master classes are held here.

In what form are classes conducted?

Lectures, practical work, and master classes are held in technology parks. Classes can also be played in a playful way.

How long does the course last?

Courses vary in duration. There are ones designed for one to three years, and there are short-term ones that last from two to six months. The program of children's technology parks includes on-site lessons for school students and express courses. For example, this summer at express courses in the Moscow and Mosgormash technology parks, classes ran from Monday to Friday.

How often and for how long do lessons take place?

As a rule, classes are held twice a week. One lesson can last from an hour to four and a quarter. Details are in the technology park schedule:

Class schedules at “Naukograd” (Moscow University of Finance and Law), children’s technology parks based on the Moscow Packaging Center, “Calibr” and “Skolkova” will appear later.

Technology parks also conduct classes during school holidays.

How many children are usually present in class?

There are usually from eight to 15 people in one lesson.

Are exams held during classes in technology parks?

During training, an intermediate analysis of the acquired knowledge is possible, but only in order to adjust or supplement the lesson programs. The guys also defend projects created individually or in a group.

What document is issued upon completion of training?

In case of successful defense of the project work, a certificate of completion of the course is issued.

How to register for classes?

Who can attend classes in technology parks?

Classes can be attended by schoolchildren and first-year college students. Special knowledge and skills are not required, but the ability to draw for a number of areas is welcome. There are no entrance tests; anyone can study at the technology park.

Do technology parks have open days?

Each of the technology parks organizes open days. For example, this year Mosgormash and Moscow held them. Guests attended master classes on all training courses, tried themselves in robotics, nanotechnology, astronautics, industrial design and were able to enroll in courses. They were shown all the research laboratories, demonstrated how scientific instruments work, and were briefly told about each area of ​​the technology parks.

On December 8 and 9, as part of the “Day Without Turnstiles” campaign, open days were held in the children's technology parks “Kalibr”, “Mosgormash”, in the technology parks of the Moscow Packaging Center and in the “Moscow” technopolis.

The Sciencegrad technology park will regularly hold free trial classes, master classes, and open lectures. There will also be a “Museum of the Development of Science and Technology”, which will tell about technical progress from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day.

Detailed information about the events and the museum’s work schedule will be posted on the technology park website and on the portal. You can register online.

Who teaches children in technology parks?

Children in children's technology parks are taught by highly qualified teachers from specialized universities and employees of leading enterprises of the city - industrial partners.

D.V. Grigoriev

The first technology parks appeared in the early 1950s in the USA. It is curious that in all the time that has passed since then, no generally accepted definition of a technology park has emerged. In 2002, the International Association of Technology Parks proposed the following definition: “A technology park is an organization managed by specialists whose main goal is to increase the well-being of the local community through the promotion of an innovative culture, as well as the competition of innovative business and scientific organizations. To achieve these goals, the technology park stimulates and manages the flow of knowledge and technology between universities, research institutes, companies and markets. It makes it easier for innovative companies to create and grow through incubation processes and spin-off processes. In addition to high-quality space, the technology park provides other services.”

The International Association of Technoparks notes the equivalence of such concepts as “technological park”, “technofloor”, “technological area”, “research park” and “science park”. In the USA it is customary to talk about “research parks”, in the UK they usually use the term “science park”, in Russia – “technopark”.

The children's technology park is a very obvious attempt to transfer the institutional success of “adult” technology parks into the world of childhood, into the sphere of children’s education. In our opinion, a children's technology park is a specially organized educational environment that integrates the capabilities of scientific, technical and production-technological environments and is aimed at introducing and mastering innovative production culture, modern engineering and technological entrepreneurship by children.

Today, the first experiments in creating children's technology parks are being implemented in different regions of our country. Despite all the similarities, these experiences also have their own characteristics, largely determined by the environment in which the park being created is placed.

Children's technology park as part of an “adult” technology park

At the end of 2015, the first children's technology parks in Russia were opened in Khanty-Mansiysk, Nefteyugansk and Naberezhnye Chelny based on the Quantorium model, developed and supported by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) as part of the initiative “New model of the system of additional education for children.”

It is planned to implement more than 10 scientific and educational areas (quantums) at the sites of children's technology parks, including:

IT quantum – information security, programming, product design;

autoquantum – modern and promising vehicles;

energyquantum – small innovative shipbuilding;

roboquantum – design and use of robotics,

Aeroquantum – unmanned aerial vehicles, aircraft modeling;

neuroquantum – work with brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnologies;

cosmoquantum – applied cosmonautics and spacecraft design;

bioquantum – biotechnology;

dataquantum – geoinformatics.

Leading Russian universities and corporations have been announced as the developers of educational programs for each area. For example, the cosmoquantum program was developed by the State University of Mechanical Engineering (MAMI), the Sputniks company, the United Rocket and Space Corporation and the STEM Games project. Using a hardware and software simulator for space systems design, children will be able to build satellites and “launch” them into Earth orbit.

The children's technology park "Quantorium Ugra" in Khanty-Mansiysk was opened on the basis of the "High Technologies Technopark" of Ugra that has existed for 7 years. "Quantorium" is equipped with modern, high-tech equipment, more than 50 teachers have been trained in the educational trajectories of "Quantorium".

The tasks set for the children's technology park:

preservation and development of additional education infrastructure;

implementation of a new generation of programs for additional education and child development;

creation of a new system for motivating children;

ensuring free choice by the child and parent of the organization of additional education, regardless of its form of ownership;

participation of large industrial enterprises in determining the profile of support resource centers in the regions.

In 2016, the children's technology park of Khanty-Mansiysk presented educational programs in the following areas: neurotechnology (grades 8-11), working with big data (grades 7-11), robotics (grades 5-8), automotive technology ( grades 8-11), nanotechnology (grades 8-11), aerotechnology (grades 8-11).

Each quantum will have 1-2 teachers, as well as their assistants - laboratory assistants, system administrators, and methodologists.

Currently, children who want to study are collected through schools. The child's parents must fill out an application on the school website, and the school forwards the applications to the children's technology park. Classes are conducted free of charge (in the future it is planned to introduce “Certificates” for receiving educational services).

Training along the “Quantorium” trajectory is designed for two years, and students will be able to change the direction of study if they wish. The children's technology park in Khanty-Mansiysk will be able to accommodate 800 children. In Nefteyugansk, 400 children will be trained in the first year.

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In the Novosibirsk region there is a regional resource center for working with gifted children, Children's Technopark. This is a structural subdivision of the State Autonomous Educational Institution of the Novosibirsk Region “Center for the Development of Creativity of Children and Youth”.

The children's technology park occupies six rooms with a total area of ​​260 square meters on the fourth floor of the Information Technology Center of the Koltsovo science city. In each of the premises a certain type of research and educational activity is organized. Teachers-experts of the children's technology park are professors from the Novosibirsk State University, institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and specialists from innovative companies in the technology park of the Novosibirsk Academic Town.

Pupils of specialized and engineering classes in the Novosibirsk region and specialized institutions of additional education have the opportunity to train in the children's technology park. An internship at a technology park involves long-term educational programs, as well as short-term seminars, master classes and specialized shifts. In addition, educational methods and technologies are developed and tested at the Children's Technopark, which in the future can be introduced into secondary schools.

In particular, for the 2015-2016 academic year in the direction of “Engineering Creativity and Invention” the following educational modules are involved:

• Machine tool industry;
• Wood and metal processing technologies based on tabletop modular machines;
• Design, development and production of decorative and applied products and household products;
• Solid 3D modeling;

and project courses:

• House building;
• Mini factory on the table;
• Robostroy;
• Smart House.

In Moscow, in Zelenograd, there is the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity (CYIT) “FabToy Technopark”. Its task is to develop engineering and entrepreneurial thinking in high school children and students. The organizer of the CMIT was the companies AZPI Electronics LLC and Expo Science Interactive LLC, operating under the common brand EXPONI. CMIT as an institution of additional education was opened on the basis of Lyceum No. 1557.

The brand name is based on the contamination of English words fab(amazing, amazing ) And fabric(fabric, material) in combination with the word toy(toy). Thus, “FabToy” is a laboratory for creating “fascinating and entertaining toys.”

The FabToy Technopark methodology of working with youth is based on the selection of educational games, interactive exhibits, souvenirs, stickers, everything that interests children and teenagers and can captivate them with the opportunity to “own” produce the final product, which is in demand by the market.

The main methodological task of the educational laboratory is to provide schoolchildren with the opportunity to learn in practice and go through the technological chain from the birth of an innovative idea to the creation of a commercial product.

The center is equipped with the necessary equipment for work. Participants of the “design laboratory” have at their disposal a 3D printer, a 3D scanner for phototyping prototypes, a milling machine for processing small-sized parts, a machine for distributing printed circuit boards, a drying oven, a thermostat, a laser machine for engraving and cutting, as well as classic carpentry and lathe tools .

It is appropriate to say a few words in general about the work of the Centers for Youth Innovative Creativity (YIC).

The creation of the CMIT network was initiated in 2012 by the all-Russian public organization “Young Innovative Russia” and approved by the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The project received registration in the Program of State Support for Small and Medium Enterprises of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

The priority of the project is the non-commercial use of high-tech equipment by children and youth in order to acquire skills in working with it.

Recipients of federal budget subsidies are small businesses.

The maximum subsidy amount per recipient in 2012 is 10.0 million rubles, in 2013 and 2014 – 7 million rubles, in 2015 – 8 million rubles.

Federal budget subsidies are allocated only for the purchase of high-tech equipment (with a set of spare parts and consumables), electronic computing equipment (equipment for information processing), software, peripheral devices, copying equipment, and communications.

Based on the results of the competitive selection in 2012, 253 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget to finance the CMIT project to 13 regions, including the largest amount of federal budget funds for the implementation of this event: Moscow (120 million rubles), Penza region ( 32 million rubles) and the Republic of Tatarstan (22.8 million rubles).

Based on the results of the competitive selection in 2013, 87 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget to finance the event for 10 regions to create 21 centers.

It should be noted that as part of the implementation of this event in 2013, in addition to the creation of new Centers, for example, in the Penza region, 5 Centers were supported (“From idea to model”, “Step into the future”, “Nanoelectrolab”, “Technoart”, “Act”) "), created and opened in 2012.

Based on the results of the competitive selection in 2014, 111 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget to finance the event to 13 regions for the creation of 29 centers, including the largest amount of federal budget funds for the implementation of this event: the Republic of Bashkortostan (22.4 million rubles), Republic of Mordovia (12.7 million rubles), Penza region (16 million rubles), Saratov region (16 million rubles).

Based on the results of the competitive selection in 2015, 419.1 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget to finance the event to 20 regions for the creation or development of 67 centers.

As of the end of 2015, 143 CMITs were opened in the country: Republic of Bashkortostan - 7; Republic of Ingushetia - 3; Republic of Mordovia - 2; Republic of Tatarstan - 10; Republic of Tyva - 1; Republic of Chuvashia - 4; Altai Territory - 5; Krasnoyarsk Territory - 10; Perm region - 1; Stavropol Territory - 3; Arkhangelsk region - 1; Astrakhan region - 2; Belgorod region - 2; Voronezh region - 1; Irkutsk region - 1; Kaluga region - 1; Kemerovo region - 3; Kurgan region - 1; Lipetsk region - 5; Moscow region - 7; Novosibirsk region - 1; Penza region - 14; St. Petersburg - 3; Samara region - 5; Saratov region - 5; Smolensk region - 1; Tambov region - 2; Tomsk region - 3; Tyumen region - 3; Ulyanovsk region - 1; Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - 3; Moscow - 32.

It should be noted that, starting from 2015, as part of the creation of CMIT, federal budget subsidies, in addition to the costs of purchasing high-tech equipment, are provided for financial support for educational projects and activities to involve children and youth in innovation activities implemented by CMIT.

Requirements for CMIT:

- availability of own or rented premises with an area of ​​no more than 120 square meters. meters for placing equipment in the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity;

— availability of a standard set of equipment (3D printer, milling machine, laser cutting machine, cutting plotter, 3D scanner, + office equipment);

— the presence on staff of at least two specialists who can work with the full range of equipment of the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity;

— the presence of specialists on staff who have experience working with children;

— providing open access to equipment;

— availability of Internet connection and Internet portal to be able to enter the unified FabLab network;

— ensuring the activities of the Center from the moment of its creation for at least 10 years.

Objectives of the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity:

— ensuring access for children and youth to modern equipment for direct digital production for the implementation, testing and commercialization of their innovative ideas;

— support for innovative creativity of children and youth, including for the purpose of professional implementation and ensuring self-employment of youth entrepreneurship;

— technical and production support for children and youth, small and medium-sized businesses developing promising types of products and technologies;

— interaction, exchange of experience with other centers of youth innovative creativity in the Russian Federation and abroad;

— organizing conferences, seminars, working meetings, conducting regular training events and implementing training programs in order to master the capabilities of the equipment by users of the Center for Youth Innovative Creativity;

— formation of a database of CMIT users.

University-based technology park for schoolchildren

The regional school technology park of the Astrakhan Civil Engineering Institute (AISI) is aimed at students in grades 5-11 and invites them to carry out research projects using modern high-tech research, educational and production equipment.

Technopark operation algorithm:

1. Technopark sends a project menu (a list of possible topics and project descriptions) to educational institutions, provides project templates, equipment and software.
2. Educational institutions (management, teachers and students) become familiar with the project menu.
3. An educational institution selects children and sends them to a technology park to complete projects (one educational institution can send no more than 20 children to a technology park per year).
4. Technopark draws up a schedule of project classes and coordinates it with the educational institution.
5. Projects are carried out in small project groups (up to 4 people) under the guidance of a technology park teacher (project duration - 36 hours).
6. The project ends with a short presentation of the work, usually presented by students at their educational institution.
7. Upon successful completion of the project, a certificate is issued.

Currently, the AISI Technopark supports children's projects in the areas of:

• robotics;
• microelectronics;
• digital production;
• information Technology;
• biochemistry;
• physics.

The television studio provides training in the field of television editing, journalism, directing, camera work, and sound engineering.

There are two more special sites in the regional school technology park AISI:

• special educational center for technology (based on school No. 36 in Astrakhan);
• special educational center for astronomy (based on the Planetarium).

The school technology park of Saratov State Technical University is a complex of technological sites patronized by the university’s divisions and departments:

• site of the Institute of Electronic Technology and Mechanical Engineering:
• Young roboticist;
• School of Young Cybernetics;
• Programming and information security;

2) site of the Faculty of Physics and Technology:

— Science of new materials;

- Technical Physics;

— Mathematical modeling of real processes as a necessary means of educational and future professional success;

3) site of the Faculty of Energy:

— Energy and electrical engineering;

4) site of the Faculty of Ecology and Service:

— Industrial ecology;

5) site of the Construction, Architectural and Road Institute:

— School for young road and bridge workers;

— Construction and materials of the 21st century.

The work of each site is organized by a specific basic department of SSTU; the sites are located both on the premises of SSTU and in city schools. Classes and projects are taught by university teachers and school teachers.

At the Moscow State University of Mechanical Engineering (MAMI), with the support of leading industry enterprises, there is a Center for Working with Talented Schoolchildren, a structural unit whose goal is to create an effective system of relationships with schools and other organizations for working with youth to attract talented schoolchildren to engineering professions.

The work of the Center for working with talented schoolchildren has several directions: organizing project activities for schoolchildren, cooperation between the University, schools and potential employers, developing modern programs for advanced training of school teachers. In addition, the Center for Working with Talented Schoolchildren coordinates interaction with other universities, helps schools create specialized engineering and technical classes and conducts its own engineering, scientific and technical Olympiads and competitions.

Typically, universities begin to actively work with applicants in the last grades of school, but the main part of the Center’s work is aimed at working with schoolchildren in grades 6-11.

The educational programs of the Center are based on the project principle of work: a school teacher, in collaboration with an expert, develop a project and determine what its educational result should be; then the school organizes work on the project in its own mode and rhythm, having the opportunity to freely use the expert and methodological resources of the university, involving an expert at different stages. The project can be organized by a school and a university, as well as by three parties - with the involvement of industry partners.

During the year, schoolchildren can work in one of the following areas: automobile transport, refrigeration engineering, design, heat power engineering and heating engineering. The deadline for completing each of the projects, the result of which should be an engineering development, is from November to May. At the end of the school year, schoolchildren defend their engineering solutions and developments in front of “customers” - experts from industry enterprises.

In addition to working on projects, engineering classes include a required course in 3D prototyping and modeling with a university certificate, as well as learning TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving), participation in STEM games, economic games and meetings with industry experts.

School engineering projects from the University of Mechanical Engineering are currently working in Moscow schools No. 439, 171, 2030 and 2086. The team of one project includes 8-10 teenagers from different classes, united by common interests.

School-based children's technology park

Such a children's technology park (its name is “Educational Technology Park”) was created at school No. 135 in the city of Perm. The school is part of the University Districts of the Perm Classical University and the Perm Pedagogical University. The school is the developer of the city program “School + Profession” (2009); winner of the competition “Best Electronic Educational Resources” (website “Journey to the World of CNC Machine Tools”, 2010); organizer of the activities of the Association of Teachers of Technological and Specialized Education “Navigator of Professionals”.

The “Educational Technopark” is considered by the school as a system of professional trials and practices for students, which makes it possible to create an effective career guidance system for students and to popularize engineering and technical specialties among schoolchildren and their parents. The technopark also contributes to the creation of a system for identifying and motivating “techno-stars” in primary, secondary and high schools as part of the network interaction of Perm schools.

The created system of technological training for schoolchildren in the Educational Technopark is directly aimed at the industrial sector of the economy of the Perm region.

The Educational Technopark is divided into three age levels:

primary school – “Construction and imagination”;

basic school – “Immersion in professions”, creating the basis for professional choice;

high school – “The architect of your own happiness”, building an individual educational program through professional tests and professional practices.

One of the first steps to update technological education was the development of programs for both classroom and extracurricular activities.

For elementary school students, as part of extracurricular activities, the following programs have been developed: “World of Professions”, “Young Cartoon Designer”, “Lightweight Construction”, “The World Around Us”, “Modeling”, etc.

To introduce robotics into the educational process, the following projects were developed:

• “We make a career with robots ourselves!”: creating a community of students, students, teachers of secondary and higher schools, organizing professional tests in robotics (competitions, olympiads, programs, training);
• “With robots into the future”: creating robotics clubs and clubs at school.

The construction of individual educational plans (IEP) by schoolchildren based on the subjects and courses offered by the Educational Technology Park is accompanied by tutors. The main thing in the work of a tutor is to identify capable students (“techno-stars”), help in determining individual educational trajectories taking into account the inclinations and interests of schoolchildren, and accompany the student in high school according to the IEP.

On the basis of the school technology park, retraining of teachers of the school and other city schools and additional education institutions is carried out.

Each student studying in the specialized areas of the Educational Technopark undergoes an internship in a modern production facility and receives the opportunity to find employment in their chosen specialty.