Any competition is not only about knowledge, hard work, excitement and emotions, but also prizes and gifts!

Thanks to our regular partners and socially responsible companies that contributed to the prize fund for this year’s All-Ukrainian competition for building smart devices, STEAM House 2024, the strongest STEM teams in Ukraine received valuable and useful prizes!

In particular, each of the four teams that were leaders in their categories received diplomas and valuable gifts from the sponsoring companies:

Educational Initiatives Foundation presented each winning team with five laptops, as well as business literature from the MIM Business School.
Logitech donated 22 sets of gadgets consisting of: Logitech Zone Vibe 100 A00167-BT-EMEA-Standalone wireless on-ear headphones with built-in microphone

Logitech Brio 105 Full HD 1080p Webcam USB – EMEA28-935, a set of Logitech POP Icon Combo mouse and wireless keyboard

The winning team in the special category “Best Technical Project” from partner MegaTrade, an IT distributor, also received a certificate for 5,000 UAH and 10 branded powerful power banks.

Each student from the Grand Prix-winning team also received a WiFi router from Huawei. The educational institution where the Grand Prix-winning children study also received a set of 20 monoblocks from the Educational Initiatives Foundation, Reusing It, and IT Integrator.

In addition, all finalist and winning teams received certificates and incentive gifts from the Competition’s regular sponsors: GoGlobal provided certificates for a day at the Ko Laba Youth Space for each finalist. The Educational Initiatives Foundation, presented a business book from the MIM Business School.

All finalists also unexpectedly received a set of balls from STEM Class as gifts, so that children would not forget about a healthy lifestyle while working on technological projects and studying online. And the leaders of the best teams also received personal awards from STEM Class!

We would like to thank our partners and sponsors for their significant contribution to the development of STEM education and the technological future of Ukraine. We invite socially responsible businesses to support the country’s talented youth in the 2025 STEM competitions!

Organising Committee mail@eif.org.ua or 044 3503635.

Viktor Shabanov, Director of Charity Programmes at The Educational Initiatives Foundation, continuing the topic of emotional intelligence of schoolchildren, shared simple techniques that help to develop emotional intelligence in a child.

Three simple exercises are based on questions: 👇
🔹 Name the emotion you are feeling
This question will help you to become aware of your emotions, take the first step towards understanding and controlling them. In addition, this is a very simple and understandable task for a child, identifying his or her emotional state and mood.
🔹 Why do you feel this emotion and not another?
Going deeper into this question helps to make a simple analysis of your actions and deeds, because by determining why this emotion dominates, the child gradually moves towards understanding the reasons for his or her reaction to certain events. And this is already half a step towards understanding and realising your feelings.
🔹 What exactly (what event) caused this emotion in you?

Finding the answer to this question leads to the child’s understanding of his or her reaction to the influence of external factors. Thanks to this exercise, we gradually move on to the child’s understanding of his or her feelings rather than emotions.

Read more about 🫶 exercises for the development of a child’s emotional intelligence in the current material of our expert specially for Osvita.ua in November 👉http://surl.li/qzeesx

Dear friends, 🔥 today we are pleased to introduce you to the winners of the Grand Prix ⚙️ of the All-Ukrainian competition for modelling “smart” devices “STEAM House” 2024 from the SSI Institute for Modernisation of Education of the Ministry of Education and Science and the Educational Initiatives Foundation.

Nomination “Best Global Project”
➡️ “Mobile autonomous biodiversity monitoring system for birds” 🐦
Team: SichEco (Municipal Institution “Zaporizhzhia Specialised Boarding School of I-III Degrees “Sich Collegium” of Zaporizhzhia Regional Council)
Participants: Ilaria Solyona, Nazar Chekhov
Mentor: Adzhymyan Olga, Adzhymyan Yevhen
Nomination “Best environmental project”
➡️ “Ecoteplo” – manufacturing of solar heaters🌟
Team: “Econovators” (Katyuzhansky basic lyceum of the Dymer village council of Kyiv region)
Participants: Daryna Garkavenko, Veronika Chupriy, Maria Trobyuk, Kira Pryvalova, Andriy Korotchenkov, Artem Skotarenko
Mentor: Anatolii Pepeliaiev
Nomination “Best social project”
➡️ Light shield kit (backpack kit for schoolchildren’s safety on the road in the dark) 🔦
Team: Creators of the Future (Youth space Ko _Laba, Khoroshiv territorial community, Zhytomyr region)
Participants: Leonardo Podik, Artem Semeniy, Oleksandra Hranysevych, Daryna Kucher, Daria Yarynych
Mentor: Tetiana Kostrytsia and Serhii Molodychenko
Speciality of the company Project IT distributor Megatrade – “Effective technological solution”
➡️ SMART street lighting control system🚦
Team: 4 real (Youth space Ko _Laba, Chuguiv community, Kharkiv region)
Participants: Roman Zhalkovsky, Vladyslav Sabodash, Nikita Filov, Artem Zbuker
Mentor: Victoria Miroshnikova, Olga Stepnykh

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🏆Grand Prix 2024

➡️ Sunflower System (integrated hardware and software solution for automatic rotation of solar panels) ☀️
Team: Sunflower seeds (Secondary school of I-III degrees No. 9 of Pokrovsk city council of Donetsk region)
Participants: Kateryna Moskaleva, Dmytro Surzha, Yegor Pisarev, Yevhen Bondarenko
Mentor: Vladyslav Lebedev

We sincerely congratulate the winners and wish them further success and victories! 🎆👏

We are grateful to the sponsors and partners of the competition, Logitech, Accord Group, STEM Class, Project IT distributor Megatrade, IT Integrator, STEAM train Training Centre, for their gifts and support!

Today we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for their active participation in the collection:
🏫 Lyceum 86 “Consul”
🏫 Lyceum 125
🏫 Vesta kindergarten
🏫 Kids Galaxy
🏫 Gymnasium 117
as well as the Lyceum “Edukator”, which used three locations at once – in Vyshenky, Osokorky and Nyvky. 👏

It’s great to see that in addition to learning and acquiring life skills in war, schoolchildren and kindergarteners are involved in charitable activities. 🤝 Sharing what you have, warming your neighbour with your care, not being indifferent to someone else’s misfortune – this is what teachers teach, including through participation in projects such as Good Night. 🕊️ And almost every school holds collections of either essentials for the military or IDPs, charity events (fairs, concerts), the proceeds of which are donated to the needs of the army and temporarily displaced persons.

Thank you very much for your feedback and we invite educational institutions all over Ukraine to participate in collecting books for their peers who have left their homes because of the war. 🙌

To get involved, write to the project coordinator at press@eif.org.ua. Thanks to your generous book donations, children get even more opportunities to read in their native Ukrainian language!

Together towards victory!