The Fourth Summer Linguistic School for young researchers “Dive into Science!” has started at the Polytechnic Educational and Health Complex. The organizer of the school is traditionally the Institute of International Education with the participation of two departments of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tula State University – “Foreign Languages” and “Linguistics and Translation”.

This time the Summer School is attended by students of the educational and professional track “Rostec Code”, the advanced engineering school “Intelligent Defense Systems”, students of the master's programs of our university, as well as students of the Institute of International Education who have a high level of English.

The already traditional Summer School “Dive into Science!” is a 10-day intensive internship to develop English language skills and scientific research and project activities in English, combined with a cultural and recreational program, also implemented in English.

Participants will also have daily sessions of the discussion club “Pump Your English Up!”, the acute topics range of which is quite wide: “Do engineers need humanities?”, “The rise of the machines: should we worry about the rapid development of artificial intelligence?”, “Fake or reality: games of artificial intelligence”, “Have we reached the peak of our civilization?”, “Do we need higher education for successful career development?”, “Will artificial intelligence replace engineers?”, “Is there life in the Universe beyond Earth?”.

The lineup of speakers giving popular science lectures this year is also impressive:

Alexander Konstantinovich Orlov, Russian diplomat, statesman, former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to France (2008-2017), Honored Worker of the Diplomatic Service of the Russian Federation, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Council of Europe (2001-2007), Executive Secretary of the Trianon Dialogue and the Russian-French Civil Society Forum (lecture "Russia in the Modern World");

Anna Romanovna Knishenko, war correspondent, host of the Arabic editorial office of Russia Today TV Channel, author and host of the program "Secrets of Russian Weapons" (lecture on the specifics of the work of a war correspondent and coverage of the SMO);

Natalya Lvovna Belyaeva, head of the federal project "Adventures of Foreigners in Russia" of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia (lecture on the secrets of the media and content creation);

Bogdan Yanovich Karlinsky, PhD in Chemistry, Head of the Laboratory of Chemical Conversion of Renewable Biomass and Organic Synthesis at Tula

State University, PhosAgro/UNESCO/IUPAC grant laureate (lecture on renewable and biodegradable materials);

Sergey Aleksandrovich Pukhanov, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Linguistics and Translation at Tula State University (lecture "Gastica: Food as a Means of Communication");

Mikhail Andreevich Gelvikh, postgraduate student at Tula State University (supervisor D.Sc. (Eng.), prof., Head of the Department of Computer Engineering A.N. Ivutin), area of "System Analysis, Information Management and Processing, Statistics" (lecture on developing secure software and how static analysis can help with this);

Viktor Yuryevich Savinov, research fellow at the excursion department of the Tula State Museum of Weapons, senior lecturer at the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Industry at Tula State University (lecture “SPLAV: 80 years guarding the Motherland”).

The Summer School was opened in a solemn atmosphere to the sounds of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation by the Director of the Institute of International Education Olga Dmitriyevna Gladkova. She emphasized that an important aspect of the Summer School “Dive into Science!” is the method of intensive and complete immersion in the language environment by using only one working language of communication and teaching – English, knowledge of which gives future engineers access to a greater number of sources of information and knowledge, which helps them to stay up to date with all events and make timely and correct decisions.

And there is still a lot of interesting things ahead for the participants of the Summer School, including an educational excursion, a thematic quiz, sports and cultural and recreational events in English.

Olga Gladkova

Photographs provided by the participants of the event