Training Students for Work with Emerging Technologies in a Technology Park Environment

Abstract

This paper discusses the training of secondary school students (oriented on working with emerging technologies) currently offered by the technology park of Kuban State Technological University in Krasnodar, Russia. Such training is integrated with research work in the technology park innovative training centers called quanta. Being constituent parts of the technology park environment, these quanta are multidisciplinary educational sites, specific interest clubs where multidimensional educational activities and supplementary education programmes are provided. Quanta promote the modernization of the country’s education system making it possible to accelerate the technical development of students, to train scientific personnel for the country’s economy, and to develop and implement modern methods of training (such as digital learning). All these innovations consider (adaptation for) working with emerging technologies. The technology park itself provides educational environment where students both acquire professional skills and undergo psychological adaptation for dealing with technology in its current and future state.