- 16.12.2022
On the way to your business
For two months, an acceleration program to support student project initiatives "inTECH" was held at TSU. It became possible thanks to the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the victory of the university in the competition of the federal project "University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform". The partners of the TSU accelerator were the government of the Tula region and the regional committee on science and innovation, the management company of the Composite Valley innovative science and technology center, the TulaTECH research and education center, leading companies: SoftExpert, Smartech, Servicesoft, Senla, DD Planet, Maksimaster , SENLA, Software Engineering Laboratory, CODEMASTRERS INTERNATIONAL, SAFE CAFE, ANITEKH (general partner), INTENSA, Tula Regional Business Incubator, Service Cloud, PJSC Sberbank. As part of the event, the winners of the Student Startup 2022 grant were awarded with thanks from the Tula Region Committee for Science and Innovation. More than 1300 participants have passed through 32 events of the accelerator. These are a seminar on the object of design and problematization, meetups with experts, individual consultations, the business game "Build a company / Sell a company", the hackathon "TulaHack accelerator" and others. On them, students in an interactive and playful format studied the basics of design, identified trends and trends for their start-up projects together with experts. — The figures are impressive, — admitted, congratulating the participants on the completion of the program, TSU vice-rector for international and project activities Olesya Evgenievna Labadze. — I hope that the program will have a long-term effect for you: someone will be able to get support in the Startup for a Million contest, someone will defend the project in the Startup as a Diploma format. In any case, the acquired competencies will be useful to you in later life and career. The most important thing you've learned is the ability to get things done. I congratulate you and wish you continued success! 47 experts from all over the country worked with teams during the accelerator on the creation of technological products (MVP) in various fields: educational, medical, IT. As a result of the events, the participants developed 52 startup projects aimed at the NTI markets: Technet, Edunet and Neuronet, which are included in the university technology entrepreneurship platform ecosystem. The most promising startups were presented at the pitch session of the inTECH accelerator projects. As noted by the head of the TSU start-up studio, Yuri Andreevich Chadayev, the session was held not in the format of a competition, but as a presentation of projects to the professional community and potential investors. Master's student at the Institute of High Precision Systems named after V.P. Gryazev with a degree in Optotechnics, Albina Khomyachkova, together with her team, created a prototype of a laboratory complex for testing small spacecraft systems - as a boxed solution for laboratory work. “The laboratory complex includes a model of the device, simulators of celestial bodies, a starry sky simulator,” the authors said. - A special system of suspension on threads has been developed, which allows simulating the absence of friction in space. The layout includes an attitude determination system containing a prototype solar sensor on photocells and a gyroscopic angular velocity sensor. This prototype can be used in organizations of additional education for educational purposes. A team of first-year students from the Institute of Law and Management of TSU proposed using artificial intelligence and machine vision to sort municipal solid waste, or, more simply, garbage. “Our goal is to introduce separation systems with machine vision technology and AI to waste sorting enterprises to increase the percentage of recycling,” said Ksenia Korneeva, co-author of the project. - The principle of operation is as follows: the collected mixed waste is brought to the waste processing plant, released from the packages and falls on the conveyor belt. The waste first passes through a rotary separator to remove stones, earth, sand, organics and other fines, after which it passes through a magnetic and eddy current separator. The rest, moving along the belt, passes through the chamber and sensors, and the desired class of waste is “shot” by nozzles with compressed air and enters a separate bin, which was assigned by the AI. The rest of the waste falls onto the next belt, where a different kind is sorted. The interdisciplinary project of students of the Institute of Law and Management and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences is dedicated to holding the international youth forum "Triad" in 2023. Previously, the project was supported by a grant from Rosmolodezh, and in the inTECH accelerator, the authors were able to refine the idea. In addition, next year they plan to defend their final qualification work as part of the Startup as a Diploma project.
“At Triad, students will gain knowledge in an interactive form about the basics of project activities, about teamwork, about the design and presentation of their project and its defense to stakeholders,” said Anastasia Kosygina, a fourth-year student of the Advertising and Public Relations program. - In two days, two hundred participants - Russian and foreign students of 1-4 courses of undergraduate and specialist degrees in various specialties - through business games, master classes and a project competition will be able to try on the role of a young entrepreneur, determine the trajectory of their future professional self-development online and offline format.
Dmitry Litvinov
Photo by Daniil Rybak
