Representatives of Tomsk State Pedagogical University’s business incubator have successfully represented the University during the Second international festival of social enterprise, which took place in St. Petersburg at the University of IT, mechanics and optics.

TSPU students have presented three projects:«T&Pro»  – a platform for active school students interested in designing of projects,«Student City» - an internet source for foreign students that helps them to adapt to the Tomsk infrastructure; «Blackvist»  -  a unique platform for non-visual perception that helps to remove barriers in communication between people capable of seeing and those ones with sight problems.

According to results of international competition two TSPU projects have received high appreciation:  «Blackvist» project was included in the list of winner-projects of festival of social enterprise and «Student City » program received an audience award.

The festival is held among universities around the world to share best practices in the implementation of social projects and the development of social entrepreneurship. At the end of the event managers have defined business model, according to which the project will be developed in the future.

A great contribution to the plan made by the students of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Residents of TSPU Business Incubator, who not only successfully presented the developed programs, but also showed professionalism by participating in the festival events.

Team of TSPU Business Incubator, which presented the winning project «Blackvist», will go to study at the Academy of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Student self-government of Tomsk State Pedagogical University is well-deserved to be one of the most outstanding student association of Russia that regulary prove its status with victories of TSPU students in various projects and competitions.

In the end of 2016 Tomsk State Pedagogical University is once more awarded with diploma of the Ministry of science and education of Russian federation for “The best organization of student self-government in educational institution”.

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Student self-government – one of the important forms of educational forms of Tomsk state pedagogical university that is implied within the concept of constant education and aimed to form a thoroughly developed personality as well as to train modern competitive specialists. Students’ participation in self-government allows them to put forward own initiatives  and help other students in realization of their projects.

Tomsk State Pedagogical University self-regulation consists of the following structures:

• Student council
• TSPU Student Trade Union
• "Point of view" voulunteer group
• TSPU center of patriotic education
• Student club
• "Danko" Student squad
• Student television

The final stage of the "Best in Profession" contest took place at the Tomsk State pedagogical University. During this stage participants have presented their open lessons. Five math and physics teachers fought for the title of the “Best in Profession”. Each lesson was unique and audience along with jury was impressed by participants’ creative approach.

Deputy Head of the Department of General Education of the Tomsk region - Elena Veniaminovna Vtorina, vice-rector for Informatization and evaluation of the quality of education of Tomsk Regional Institute of Advanced Training and Retraining of Educators (TRIATRE) - Boris V. Ilyukhin and the first TSPU vice-rector - Andrey Makarenko have participated in awarding of “Best Teacher of Physics" and "The Best Teacher of Mathematics" 

Contest results:

"The best Math teacher-2016":

• Laureate of I degree - Karelina Elena, municipal budgetary general education institution "School № 78" Seversk;
• Laureate of II degree - Bumagina Elena, Seversk Cadet Corps;
• Laureate of III degree - Karpenko Natalia, municipal indipendent general education institution Lyceum № 1 named after A.S. Pushkin, Tomsk.

“The best teacher of Physics-2016":

• Laureate of I degree - Semeniuk Evgeny, municipal independent general education institution Siberian High School;
• Laureate of II degree - Naidin Anatoly, Tomsk Physico-Technical High School;
• Laureate of III degree - Zhevlakova Elena, municipal independent general education institution -school № 4 Asino Tomsk region;
• Laureate of III degree - Sagitova Victoria V., general education institution "Secondary school number 3", Strezhevoy.

Pupil teams, who helped their teachers, also have received appreciation and gifts.

For the best solution of problems in physics:

• Diploma of I degree – Tomsk Physics and Technical Lyceum: Anton Filippov, Pavel Kim, Daniel Oblakov (teacher Naidin A. A.);
• Diploma II degree - the team of municipal indipendent general education institution Zaozernaya school № 16: Semykin Alexander, Kacharin Vadim, Alexander Kokorin (teacher Yakushev L. A);
• Diploma of III degree - the team of municipal educational institution "Secondary school number 3" of the Strezhevoy: Sharipov Daniel, Muhamatullina Alina (teacher Sagitova V.V).

For the best solution of problems in mathematics:

• Diploma of I degree - the team of municipal independent general education institution lyceum № 1 in Tomsk: Russkova Evgenia, Hammatova Alena (teacher Karpenko N.V.);
• Diploma of II degree - the team municipal independent general education institution "Seversk Physics and Mathematics Lyceum" Santiev Alexei, Martyanova Elena, Ilya Karpov (teacher Santeva L.V.);
• Diploma of III degree - the team municipal independent general education institution "Siberian Lyceum", Tomsk: Sinekopova Valeria, Veronica Kutsenko, Artem Fedotov (teacher - Pushkareva T.G.).

We congratulate the winners and wish them further success in their professional activities!

Today the final stage of TSPU contest in teaching “Best in Profession” takes place. Five physics and five math teachers who will make it in the final stage will be fighting for a title of “The best specialist”.

This year’s competition started in October. The two stages of competition are behind. The stakes are high and competitors show amazing level of training. The third final stage will be the most hard and exciting. Each participant should present a part from his/her unique lesson.

This year the competition marks its fifth anniversary. One of the distinctive features of the competition is that participants are both students and teachers. Teachers-participants trains their student teams that deal with different tasks during the second stage of the competition thus bringing scores to their teachers.

In the end of the competition prize-winners in nominations “The best physics teacher”, “The best math teacher” will be chosen and awarded with diplomas and cash bonus.

The team of history and philology faculty of TSPU has participated in second regional stage of the All-Russian student competition in Russian language and literature dedicated to V.I. Dal and F.M. Dostoevsky. The competition took part at Omsk State pedagogical university and, apart from the host team, four teams from pedagogical Universities of Russia have participated in the event: Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Altai State Pedagogical University, Kuybysheve branch of Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. The list of Tomsk team members included: students Tatiana Firsanova, Ksenia Tarishkina, Alena Smirnova and postgraduate student of the department of modern Russian language and stylistics Alena Schutova. For two days, the participants have fulfilled different individual and team tasks in Russian and Literature. The most challenging was a test which included 60 questions from different branches of linguistics and literature. By the results of competition, Teams from TSPU and OmSPU have become winners and shared an honorary first place. As for individual competition: Alena Schutova became winner in Russian language section and Tatiana Firsanov a and Ksenia Tarishkina  in Literature section. In addition our team has taken the first place in rhetorical competition.

All-Russian competitions in weight lifting took place In the beginning of December in “Jupiter” sport complex. Among the Tomsk teams there were TSPU representatives who took the second place in team rating.

This event became a starting point for students involved in weight lifting from all over the country. In total rating TSPU participants have gathered 7 medals out of 17 (3 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 3 bronze medals). 

Senior teacher of TSPU economics theory department Santotskaya Ksenia Eduardovna presented Tomsk region on the All-Russian Youth tourism school that took place in Sevastopol between 25 and 30 of November 2016. More than 100 people from more than 45 subjects of Russian federation joined the school. The goal of this event is to stimulate the development of Russian tourism by involving Russian youth in forming and promotion of tourist products as well as to rise hospitality standards using innovative technologies, to give all the skills necessary for professional activities in tourism sphere. 

Federal professor Mikhail Volkov will present an open lecture dedicated to “Quick search Mathematics” on December 13 at the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. The event will start at 15:30 in room 311 (Komsomolsky prospect 75). Professor is going to tell about basics of combinatorial analysis and features of treating of vast amounts of data for resolution of quick search tasks. Mikhail Volkov is the leading employee of the laboratory of combinatory algebra and head of algebra and discrete mathematics department of mathematics and IT Institute of Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg). He entered the list of winners of special contest organized by the Ministry of education and science of Russian Federation aimed at supporting of prominent Russian scientists.

The Faculty of foreign languages has celebrated its 85 anniversary with a gala concert. Students, graduate students employees and veteran-teachers of the faculty gathered together to mark the anniversary. During the event medals, diplomas and letters of thanks were given to the best teachers of the faculty. It was a great opportunity to recall a reach history of the faculty and its achievements. One thing that never changes is a high quality of TSPU education, rich experience of our teachers and devotion to our mission! 

The honorable second place and a silver medal in Artistic Fencing Championship brought home the fencing duet of artistic fencing studio «SABERIA». Viktor Lobanov, Ph.D., Associate Professor of TSPU Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Education and Sergei Shmatko, a graduate student of TSPU under the direction of Doctor of Philosophy, Dean of the Faculty of Universitywide subjects S.B. Kulikov have participated in Championship. Not only the representatives of Tomsk State Pedagogical University approached to the Championship with all the responsibility and creativity, but they also combined sport, art and science in their performance.

"Since 2015 the project entitled "The impact of ancient ideas in modern science, culture and education" is implemented in the Tomsk State Pedagogical University.  As part of this project a complex scientific group that studies the influence of antiquity both in theoretical and practical terms was formed. This year, the scientific team not only has participated in scientific events in St. Petersburg, but also took part in artistic fencing competitions. The purpose of the participation was to identify the ancient "tracks" in the sports direction " - said Sergey Kulikov.

It was a ninth Russian artistic fencing Championship in St. Petersburg since the registration of fencing art as a new sports discipline, and the first, held in the northern capital.

Athletes from the Tomsk State Pedagogical University Viktor Lobanov and Sergei Shmatko, with their "Alternative scene" performance have won second place and the silver medal in the category "Art Fencing - Duet - Freestyle".

"In our performance we used some unconventional moves: in particular, we have used the scientific potential of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Tomsk city as a whole. Work on the project of the Russian Science Foundation allowed us to prepare a performance on the basis of scientific ideas, which was quite important, interesting and spectacular in the eyes of the judges. We just updated the ancient ideals, tried to combine story, theater and fencing " - said member of the Tomsk duo Viktor Lobanov.

A TSPU team had presented a "saber fighting" show and it was most acclaimed performance of this kind in Russia.