Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
The award ceremony of the fifth youth competition of entrepreneurial and business ideas The Blue Ocean Open Polytech Entrepreneurship Competition took place at the Boiling Point – Polytech. The competition was announced at the beginning of February this year and attracted a large number of participants.
The event was organized by the Polytech Innovation Support and Development Fund, the Higher School of Industrial Management of the Institute of Industrial Management, Economics and Trade, and the Higher School of Technological Entrepreneurship of the Advanced Engineering School Digital Engineering.
This year, 12 teams reached the final. In addition to the awards for first, second and third places, the jury members presented diplomas “For creativity”, “For creativity and desire for knowledge”, “For the promotion of a healthy lifestyle”, “For creativity and uniqueness of the project”, “For the promotion of sports and beauty”.
The first place and the prize “For the most technologically advanced project” were awarded to the team of masters of the Higher School of Technological Entrepreneurship of the PIS “Digital Engineering”. Daria Kuzmenkova, Yaroslav Plokhikh and Denis Shatalov presented the project “ProjectAR – interactive VR projector”.
The second and third places were taken by teams of bachelors of the Management program of the Higher School of Industrial Management of IPMEiT. The project “Interactive theater “The Storyteller’s Den”” was presented by Andrey Ponomarev, Zaur Guseinov, Pavel Kasyanik and Dmitry Rusnak. The project “”Nomads” – a mobile recreation center” was defended by Diana Yakimenko, Vitaly Trofimov, Maria Belova and Maria Platonova.
The jury members noted that this year there were many projects with a social focus, supporting a healthy lifestyle and sports.
The general partner of the competition, which provided cash prizes to the teams, was the company “Profilans IT”.
The chairman of the jury, associate professor of the Higher School of Industrial Management Anastasii Klimin presented letters of gratitude from the Foundation for Support and Development of Innovations “Polytech” to the general director of the company “Profilans IT” Mark Stramousov. Gratitude was also received by the head of the company’s development team Elizaveta Mokhova, who has been judging the competition for the third year.
It is great that we have talented students who repeatedly participate in the competition and win. Each success for bachelors is additional points in the portfolio when entering a master’s program, as well as an opportunity to develop their business ideas in the future, – emphasized Anastasii Klimin.
The “Star Captain” diploma and a special prize were received by Daria Kuzmenkova from the General Director of the PSS company Pavel Balobanov.
This year we gave a special prize to the captain of the BOSS winning team to emphasize the importance of a leader. Congratulations to Daria on her great achievement. I would also like to congratulate all the participants who reached the end of the competition. This is the most important condition for success: to try and see things through, sometimes by the skin of your teeth, but to the end, demonstrating a strong will. This is exactly what you all showed today, – said Pavel Balobanov.
Executive Director of the Foundation for Support and Development of Innovations “Polytech”, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Technological Entrepreneurship of the PIS “Digital Engineering” Alexey Efimov wished further success and professional development to all participants of the competition.
There are now many opportunities to develop your ideas and startups, many funds finance student entrepreneurship. Don’t stop there. Come to our Peter the Great startup center, and we will help you finalize and correctly design your project and grant application, – said Alexey Efimov.
The sixth edition of The Blue Ocean Open Polytech Entrepreneurship Competition is scheduled for February-May of the next academic year.
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