Director of the Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture attended underwater robotics competition

In early March, the secondary school Shkola Budushchego (School of the Future) in Bolshoye Isakovo held the first underwater robotics championship among schoolchildren.

The Oceanica project team, whose employees develop equipment and kits for underwater robotics and project activities, organised the competition.

The organisers held master classes, a business game on water issues, an exhibition of research works, training on personal potential development, and a round table for teachers during the competition.

The Director of the Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture O.A. Novozhilov visited the championship venue of young underwater robot designers as a guest and welcomed the participants of the competition.

He told the children about the prospects of using underwater robots for scientific research, in particular, as applied to ichthyology and invited the participants to study at KSTU.

The geography of the championship was represented by different educational organisations from the Kaliningrad region, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Chelyabinsk and Khabarovsk Krai.

The team from Krasnodar became the absolute winner of the championship.