“Science Week” of Astana schoolchildren in the walls of the Scientific and Production Center

    One of the days of the traditional Science Week, the students of the Gymnasium School No. 47 of Astana city spent at the SPC of Grain Farming named after A.I. Barayev. The purpose of visiting our Center by high school students is to introduce students to agricultural science and involve students in research activities. The students visited the historical museum of the Center, where Olga Pavlovna Proskura conducted an excursion, during which she told about the development of agricultural science from the pre-war period, the time of the development of virgin lands to the present day. The students also got acquainted with the biographies of outstanding scientists, first of all with the contribution of Alexander Ivanovich Barayev to the formation and modern level of development of agricultural science. High school students were told about modern methods of scientific research in the field of soil and agrochemical research, biochemistry and microbiology when visiting the laboratories of the Analytical Center. Modern technologies of cultivation of agricultural crops with elements of precision agriculture were presented to the students by the head of the laboratory of precision agriculture Vladimir Fedorovich Skoblikov and researcher Alexander Lisenovich. The scientists answered the questions of high school students on the use of IT technologies in modern agricultural production and the use of unmanned vehicles for monitoring agricultural land. Scientists of the Center are interested in introducing young people to agricultural science, opportunities for cooperation in education and training of future young scientists.