Engineering Festival at Zaporizhia Gymnasium No. 59
On June 13, the Children’s and Youth Scientific University of the National University “Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic” took part in the Engineering Festival – 2026, which was held at Zaporizhzhia Gymnasium No. 59 and brought together students, teachers, scientists and partners to popularize engineering education, develop technical creativity of young people and form interest in modern technologies and scientific research.
Our university presented two interactive locations – “3D Workshop” and “Science or Magic”.
The location “3D Workshop” was prepared by the senior lecturer of the Department of Metal-Cutting Machine Tools and Tools Serhiy Tanchenko, the head of the same department Mykhailo Frolov and the senior lecturer of the Department of Machine Parts and lifting and transport mechanisms Dmytro Kozak. The “3D Workshop” location was a workshop of modern technologies, where festival participants made an exciting journey into the world of three-dimensional modeling. Students got acquainted with the principles of operation of a 3D scanner, learned how digital 3D models are created and how they are embodied in physical objects using a 3D printer. Schoolchildren worked with elements of a specialized designer, developed by teachers themselves using 3D modeling and printing technologies. Thus, spatial thinking, engineering imagination, and design skills were developed.
At the “Science or Magic” location, senior laboratory assistant of the Industry 4.0 center Denys Kalinichenko, dean of the electrical engineering faculty Mykola Antonov, and associate professor of the department of electric drive and automation of industrial installations Olena Nazarova opened up the fascinating world of physics to schoolchildren through interactive demonstrations and experiments. Schoolchildren immersed themselves in the world of physics, electricity, and electrical engineering through vivid interactive experiments and practical experiments. They observed amazing manifestations of electrical and magnetic phenomena, investigated the properties of light and electromagnetic waves, and also learned how the principles of information transmission using electrical signals and Morse code work. Demonstrations of the conversion of electrical energy into mechanical, light, and heat energy helped them understand the operation of many modern devices. Thanks to practical tasks and logical games, students were convinced that physics and electricity are the basis of most technologies that surround us in everyday life, and complex scientific laws can be fascinating, understandable and extremely interesting.
At the interactive locations of the festival, participants got acquainted with electrical engineering, robotics, computer technologies and STEM areas, participated in creative locations, created airplane models, products with 3D pens and joined scientific experiments.
Thank you to the organizers, partners and all participants of the festival for their joint work and support!
