On October, 10, at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” has opened the VI All-Ukrainian Festival of Innovation Projects “Sikorsky Challenge 2017″.
The festival is held from 2012. It received its name in honor of the world-renowned aircraft designer, a Kyiver by birthright, a former student of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Igor Sikorsky. So, in the logo of the festival there is also a hat – an unchanging attribute and, according to legend, a talisman, with whom a great innovator of the twentieth century never parted.
“Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute considers it a duty to hold such festivals for the education of young people, who are well prepared in engineering, mathematics, natural sciences and possess innovative thinking. We believe that this is our human capital, which should change the country for the better” emphasized the rector of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Michael Zgurovskyi during the opening ceremony.
The best of the projects submitted for the festival undergo the competitions held within the framework of its program. These are competitions for startups (http://www.startup.kpi.ua) and the “Intel-Techno Ukraine 2017 2018” competition (http://isef.in.ua).