Ilsur Metshin to participants of WorldSkills: “We will help you to prepare”

(KZN.RU, December 5, Alsu Safina). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, visited the Kazan Radio-Mechanical College, which is the specialized competence center of the championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia) in the direction of “Electronics”. The Mayor examined the laboratories and classrooms and talked with the teachers and students of the college.

The competence “Electronics” requires a lot of knowledge and skills as it includes 4 sub-computations: programming, circuitry, installation, and adjustment. “There are talented children, they just need to be trained”, noted teacher Ravilya Bikmukhametova.

She noted that graduates continue to study at the KAI or work at enterprises in the future. The college is included in the state program of targeted training of professional personnel in highly demanded occupations and specialties.

The college supplies personnel for work at high-performance workplaces in the industry that provides modernization and technological development of the economy of the RT. The educational institution cooperates with such enterprises as the AO “Radiopribor”, the NPO “Radioelectronics” named after. V. Shimko, the Kazan Aviation Plant, the Kazan Electrotechnical Plant, the plant “Electropribor”, and others. These enterprises help equip the college.

“There are two components. It is necessary that it was interesting to learn the new modern equipment. The second is a decent salary of representatives of working professions”, said the Mayor.

Ilsur Metshin spoke with students and participants of the regional stage “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills). In 2019, Kazan will host the world championship of working professions “WorldSkills”.

“We will support you. We must understand that everybody is equal at these championships”, said Ilsur Metshin. “You need to be psychologically prepared. There is no one better or worse than us but we are the country that sent the man into space first. We will help in everything so that you will be prepared”, said the Mayor.

The regional championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia) took place from 27 to 29 of November in Kazan. The winners of the regional contest will take part in the national championship “Young Professionals” (WorldSkills Russia), which will be held in 2018 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Ilsur Metshin also visited the audience with turning equipment and then looked at the lesson on the basics of programming. In the assembly hall, the Mayor talked with the student of the college. He was told that students take an active part in city and republican events. The students showed their awards and diplomas and also performed a song, with which they took first place in the contest “Vesennyaya Kapel”.

The Mayor of Kazan congratulated the children on the International Volunteer Day, which is celebrated today, and wished them success in WorldSkills competitions. “It is important that you live a bright creative life, there are sports, KVN, variety art except for study. This is the beauty of student life”, said I. Metshin. “And the adult working life at the enterprises is waiting for you tomorrow because we have a lot of enterprises where you have to apply your knowledge”.

Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Andrey Lobov, the head of the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky districts’ administration, Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, visited the college together with the Mayor.

The Kazan Radio-Mechanical College (Krasnogo Pozharnika Street, No.1a) is located in a building, built in 1969, about 450 students are studying here. In the first half of 2017, the facade of the building was renovated.