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Source: Peoples’Friendship University of Russia –
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Dmitry and Diana Gubina, a future landscape architect and educational program methodologist, met at a summer camp in Kazan. There, the boys fell in love, got married after school, and went to study at Moscow universities. On Family, Love, and Fidelity Day, their couple won the Best Student Family of Russia competition.
The competition took place from April 21 to July 8, with a total of 210 couples taking part. At the first stage, the jury assessed the participants’ portfolios and their video business cards.
“Diana and I attached our diplomas with achievements to the portfolio. My wife has the status of a silver and gold medalist of the student competition “I am a professional”, she is a student of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. I attached my honors bachelor’s degree from RUDN and successes in grant competitions and olympiads. There was nothing super creative in our video business card, we just sincerely and heartily told about ourselves,” – Dmitry Gubin (Landscape Architecture, Master, 2nd year).
Love and charity
Dmitry and Diana are not only gnawing at the granite of science together, but are also involved in a charity project. The couple created an autonomous non-profit organization, the Educational Center STEP. The organization provides free education and exam preparation for schoolchildren from low-income families and families in difficult life situations, orphans and children from orphanages. “We also have mentoring programs. During group classes, children develop their flexible skills, and mentors help them choose interesting areas for study, participate in competitions, and get vouchers to children’s centers. Recently, our ANO received a grant from Rosmolodezh for 500 thousand rubles,” — Dmitry Gubin (Landscape Architecture, Master’s student, 2nd year).
Such an important project could not leave the jury members indifferent. Dmitry and Diana made it to the finals, where they competed with 28 other couples on the Gzhel State University site in the Moscow region from July 6 to 8.
Parade of talents
In the final, the children took part in intellectual games, demonstrated their physical fitness and even prepared several delicious dishes.
“We passed the GTO standards: we pumped up our abs, lifted weights, did push-ups… Then there was the creative numbers stage. We told the story of our family through dance, which was accompanied by audio and video. And we presented the jury with pine cone jam, because this is our tradition – every year we collect pine cones and make jam. Another creative stage was a master class, where my wife and I created wax candles. We added aromatic oils, dried lavender and currants to them to make our work unique. And in the culinary talents competition, my wife and I prepared a “Sunny” salad, similar to the Greek one, cucumber and cream cheese rolls in the form of snails and a fruit dessert,” – Dmitry Gubin (Landscape Architecture, Master’s degree, 2nd year).
Family trail
An important stage of the final was teamwork with other participants of the competition. The contestants were divided into groups and developed proposals for organizing all-Russian educational and leisure events for students. The ideas that made it into the top 3 were presented at the plenary session to the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia Olga Petrova.
“Our team presented the project “Family Path”: this is a festival in the form of a journey through time for young families and couples. Its essence is to allow participants to immerse themselves in the life of different peoples of the country through historical and ethnographic reconstruction, as well as to study their crafts and customs. We also proposed to establish an all-Russian Family Center. Families will be able to come here for festivals, training courses and meetings dedicated to the history, crafts and way of life of their ancestors,” – Dmitry Gubin (Landscape Architecture, Master’s student, 2nd year).
Students’ initiatives will be implemented within the framework of the federal project “Family Support”.
Cruiser to the future
The RUDN Agrarian and Technological Institute is proud of the married couple’s victory.
“Dmitry is an excellent student not only in terms of his studies, but also in matters of extracurricular activities. He annually takes part in grant stories and Olympiads, successfully combines his studies in the Master’s program and his professional path. In a word, he is the pride of the institute. And now he and his wife have the title of “Best Student Family of Russia”. I want to wish Dmitry and Diana not to stop there, because they have a huge number of bright and memorable moments of family life ahead of them. I am glad that for the guys, family is not just a stamp in the passport, but a real cruiser paving the way to the future,” – Alexandra Dmitrieva, Deputy Director for Work with Students of the RUDN Agrarian and Technological Institute.
The competition “The Best Student Family of Russia” was held within the framework of the federal project “Family Support” of the national project “Family”.
Organizers:
Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin.
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