NEWS

This weekend, the first Rukami festival of ideas and technologies was held in Kazan. The Kazanskaya Yarmarka site brought together all-aged makers, enthusiasts of technical creativity, and others who wanted to join the maker community.

The festival programme included a set of educational, competitive, and exhibition events: an educational module, master classes, a contest programme, as well as activities in the lecture hall and exhibition areas.

Within the framework of the programme, two tracks simultaneously took place, namely “Children for Children” (game quests, interactive platforms, master classes and competitions for the age category from 14 to 21) and “Teachers for Children and Teachers” (master classes and workshops from active makers).

The festival also included a Rukami contest of technical creativity projects, where makers’ projects were presented, as well as the best technical creativity practices from children and young people.

The Rukami Festival is a large-scale event that is part of the federal non-commercial project titled “Kruzhok (Circle) Movement of the National Technology Initiative”. The festival is aimed at attracting the attention of young people and a wide audience to technical creativity, maker activities, creating their own projects in circles. The partner of this event in Kazan is the University of Talents with the support from the Ministry of Education and Science of Tatarstan.