Moscow. 31 May 2021. Aviation and astronautics are on the verge of revolutionary changes driven by the rapid development of technology. To take full advantage of the opportunities these innovations provide, the aerospace industry needs a new generation of talent capable of thinking in new categories. MAKS helps the industry to attract young people, demonstrates career prospects to children and gives them the opportunity to realize their ambitions. For students, Student’s Day becomes a free admission ticket to a new world full of discovery and creative challenge. You just need to register on the Aviasalon website.
For the first time, the organizers of the air show offered to hold a “Student’s Day” at the International Aviation and Space Salon in 2015. If before the exhibition directorate accepted organized groups and delegations of university students on a free basis, MAKS-2015 opened its doors for daytime students of all higher and secondary educational institutions. To visit the exhibition on Friday for free, it was enough to pre-register on the salon’s website.
The idea received support at the highest level. “I think this is a very good, necessary initiative. It should stimulate the attraction of young specialists to the industry, contribute to an increase in interest in aviation and space exploration,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his greeting to the participants and guests of the salon.
The initiative was also appreciated “from below”: more than 7,000 students took advantage of the opportunity to visit the exhibition free of charge in 2015, and further interest in the event increased. Indeed, the “Student’s Day” at MAKS objectively became a unique opportunity for future aviators to look at their profession “from the inside” and understand how exciting and truly exciting work related to science and engineering practice can be. Many managed to find their future employer that day.
In 2021, the organizers of the salon once again invite full-time students of higher and secondary specialized educational institutions to visit the exhibition for free on the “Student’s Day”, which, according to the established tradition, will be held on the first day of a massive visit to the salon, namely on Friday, July 23rd. On this day, the children will be able to get acquainted with enterprises of the aerospace industry, industry novelties, personnel programs of leading companies. All doors will be open for them: there is an opportunity to take part in the business program of the salon and in job fairs, attend lectures and master classes. Specially for the “Student’s Day”, the flagship enterprises have planned career guidance events, including lectures by leading designers, conferences of young professionals and other events.
Today, technologies are changing at such a speed that employers cannot wait several years for graduates to “immerse themselves” in the profession. Education, science and industry unite their efforts so that young people simultaneously receive the necessary knowledge and skills, and immediately, from the first courses of study, apply them in practice, participating in research, creating new models of technology. The Future Hub section is designed to visually demonstrate this “fusion” by the example of partnerships between the largest manufacturers and universities.
A new trend, promoted by the Moscow Aviation Institute, is the construction of individual educational trajectories. Enterprises, acting as customers for the training of young specialists, will participate in the formation of educational programs, focusing in them on important disciplines and areas. Naturally, students themselves will be able to independently shape their future competencies.
We hope that the guys who come to MAKS on “Student’s Day” will become exhibitors in a different capacity in two years’ time and will present the results of their work in the events held at the exhibition of aviation technical creativity of youth in the Future Hub section. Leading aerospace and polytechnic universities, such as MAI, MEI, Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman, Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kazan State Technical University named after V.I. A.N. Tupolev and others.
Aviation and cosmonautics have many complex, interesting and still unresolved technical problems ahead. Learn, dream, dare – and the most advanced enterprises of the aerospace industry in Russia will gladly open the doors to your profession for you in the very near future. See you at MAKS-2021 on “Student’s Day” on July 23!
Recall that for a free visit to MAKS-2021 on Friday, July 23, 2021, students need to register on the official website of the air show and receive a personalized electronic ticket.
