The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan invites students of rural schools to take part in the All-Russian contest "AgroNTI-2020"

26 February 2020, Wednesday

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan invites students from rural schools to take part in the All-Russian contest "AgroNTI - 2020" among students in grades 5-10 in three age categories and four areas:

• Agrocopters (distributed systems of unmanned aerial vehicles, automatic control systems);

• Agricultural robots (electronic automated control systems for agricultural machinery);

• Agrocosmos (use of satellite imagery and web-GIS technologies in agriculture);

• Agrometeo (weather forecasting, creating a weather archive, analytics).

The competition is held by the Foundation for the Promotion of the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere together with the non-profit organization “Association of Educational Institutions of the AIC and Fisheries”, with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

The purpose of the competition is to involve students from educational institutions located in rural areas in the work on the technological priorities of the National Technology Initiative.

The main objectives of the competition are:

- the development of students' creative abilities and interest in specialties of agricultural sciences;

- the formation of key competencies, professionally significant personality traits and motivation for the practical application of subject knowledge;

- creation of favorable conditions for self-determination, creative self-realization of students;

- increasing the prestige of agricultural sciences specialties;

- vocational guidance of students;

- dissemination and popularization of knowledges in this sphere;

- Attraction of scientific and business communities to work with talented students.

The All-Russian competition AgroNTI-2020 is held among students in grades 5-11 in 4 stages:

- correspondence regional stage, participants of which can be students from all regions of Russia (from April 1-19, 2020);

- the intramural regional stage; participation of the winners of the correspondence regional stage, held at the agrarian universities of Russia (May 12-24, 2020);

- The final stage will be held in all nominations of the competition (September 2020);

- the winners of the final stage will have the opportunity to take part in a specialized venue at the Russian agricultural exhibition Golden Autumn 2020 (October 2020).

To participate in the competition, you must fill an application on the official website kids.agronti.ru/. Each participant has the opportunity to register for all four areas. In each of the areas, situational tasks or tests are proposed.

More detailed information on participation in the competition can be clarified in the Department of Science, Education and Innovative Technologies of the Ministry by calling 221-76-70, 221-76-88 (8819).

One of the venues for conducting correspondence and full-time regional stages will be Kazan State Agrarian University.

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