IT Student Receives “Student of the Year” Grand Prix

12:53, December 21, 2018

Vladimir Davydik will take a course at the UrFU business school [photoseries]

On December 19, the Yeltsin Center hosted the award ceremony "UrFU Student of the Year – 2018". The winner in the “Student developing the university” category and a Grand Prix winner is a senior year Institute of New Materials and Technologies student Vladimir Davydik.

‘I still cannot believe! I am so honoured to have won the award. My plans for the future are to enroll at the Ural Federal University on a Master’s Degree course in Economics and develop the university further!’ Vladimir shared.

406 applications were submitted for participation in the award, and according to results of several months, 24 finalists in eight categories were announced. Two of these categories were introduced for the first time. On December 14, the finalists defended their own projects, which were then assessed by the university administration. According to the results of the project presentations Denis Letavin (Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies) won in the “Postgraduate Student of the Year” category, and the Institute of Fundamental Education student Ksenia Kolikova became the best mentor of the year.

All winners delivered a speech on the stage of the Yeltsin Center, in which they answered the question “what is freedom?”. The students of the Ural Institute of Humanities won in two categories at once; the guests of the ceremony found their speeches the most impressive. Anastasia Firsova won in the category the leader of the student organization, and Daria Pogodaeva became the international student of the year.

‘When something happens for the third time already, it has become a tradition. Each of those present here would agree that the third ceremony is simply bound to succeed,’ Dmitry Bugrov, First Vice-Rector of UrFU, said. ‘This is a rather large and responsible task: to choose who will be the student of the year.'

The title of the leader in the "The Best in Art" category was given to the student of the Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technologies, Alexandra Abramova, and in the "Scientific Breakthrough" category – graduate student at the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Zlata Grinina. The student brigade member of the year is Dmitry Kolevatykh, a senior year student of the Institute of Chemical Engineering and the commissioner of the “Horizon” student brigade.

As a result of the jury vote, as many as three students received certificates for courses in the Ural Federal University Business School. Vladimir Davydik, Daria Pogodaeva and Anastasia Firsova will be able to complete any program worth up to 90 thousand rubles. The rest of the category winners were given the certificates of a nominal value of 30 thousand rubles. All students received diplomas and valuable gifts provided by the award partners.