Published on: 2026-04-28
Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Правительство Российской Федерации –
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The results of the fifth season of the popular science video contest “Do You Know? Teach!” have been summed up. This year, the contest once again confirmed its significance as a platform for supporting talented young people capable of explaining science accessibly and engagingly. 18 people became winners, and another 36 became prizewinners of the contest.
The “Do You Know? Teach!” contest is shaping a new generation of science popularizers who can speak simply about complex topics. Over five seasons of the contest, participants have sent more than 12 thousand videos, over 2 thousand of them in the jubilee fifth season. It is especially important that the children do not just share facts and stories but sincerely engage with science. Congratulations to the winners and prize-winners! May your enthusiasm last for many years to come, and may your interest in science never wane.”In the decade of science and technology announced by President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the Government will continue to create opportunities for realizing the potential of children and youth,” noted Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.
In turn, the head of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Valery Falkov, emphasized the significant role of the competition among the events of the Decade of Science and Technology.
“Children from all over the country immerse themselves in current issues of scientific and technological development in order to later convey the acquired knowledge to their peers in simple and understandable language. We see how, thanks to the competition, science is becoming increasingly attractive for young boys and girls. I am sure many of them will choose the profession of a scientist for themselves,” said the minister.
Over the course of five months, starting from October 2025, schoolchildren published their videos in 6 thematic categories reflecting the activities of the competition partners: “Digital View of the Planet: Satellites and Drones”, “Smart Materials in the Cities of the Future”, “Engine Building”, “Device of the Future: from Idea to Drawing”, “Science, History, Man”, and “Instruction on Artificial Intelligence That Everyone Will Understand.”Partners of the competition became the GK “Geoskan”, “Sibur”, JSC “United Engine Corporation”, All-Russian public-state movement of children and youth “Movement of the First”, editorial office of “Avanta” publishing house “AST” and “Avito”.
Initially, all videos were evaluated by the expert council for compliance with the competition rules and selected nomination, as well as for scientific accuracy and creativity. As a result, a shortlist of 162 semifinalists was formed: 27 participants in each nomination. The winners were determined by the jury based on four criteria: mastery of the topic and its disclosure, originality of the concept, visual quality and editing, as well as the level of material presentation. The jury consisted of representatives of government authorities, the scientific community, and the contest partners.
The “Know? Teach!” contest is important from the point of view of career guidance: it helps children better understand their interests and possibilities. It is especially valuable that parents are involved in it – they assist in filming, editing, and conducting experiments. For us, the contest represents a practical interest: “Sibur” pays great attention to the development of new materials, including environmentally friendly ones and those that improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes. Among the videos submitted to the contest, there are ideas that attract the attention of our specialists both by their practical value and by their creative approach.”We will be glad if participants choose a specialized education in the future and build their careers with our company,” noted the head of the practice for working with young specialists at SIBUR, Ernest Khasanshin.
Prize places in the age category were distributed as follows:
Nomination “Digital View of the Planet: Satellites and Drones” (nomination partner – GC “Geoscan”):
High school:
1st place – Egor Shitik, Center for Children’s Technical Creativity of Professional Orientation at JSC “NPO”, Obukhov Plant (Saint Petersburg), video clip – “Eyes of the Planet”.
2nd place – Ivan Ralovets, School No. 2 (Uzhur, Krasnoyarsk Krai), video clip – “How GPS works”.
3rd place – Elizaveta Nikolenko, Gymnasium No. 44 (Kursk), video – “A digital view of the planet: how satellites and drones study the planet.”
Secondary school:
1st place – Roman Khlunov, School No. 37 (Nizhny Novgorod), video – “Drones: from a dream about the sky to assistants of chess players and rescuers.”
2nd place – Daniil Zhukovsky, School No. 13 named after A.I. Pokryshkin (Kacha village, Sevastopol), video – “Drones: flight of intelligence in the service of nature.”
3rd place – Vera Sotskova, School No. 13 (Veliky Novgorod), video – “Lidar – smart eyes of the drone.”
Elementary school:
1st place – Stepan Gavrilov, Center for Additional Education of Children “Rodnichok” (Kovrov, Vladimir Region), video – “Physical Principles of Flights”.
2nd place – Mark Yaurov, School No. 2083 (Moscow), video clip – “Satellites and drones.”
3rd place – Marianna Korneva, School No. 29 (Khimki, Moscow region), video – “Eyes of the Planet: from visible to invisible.”
Nomination “Smart Materials in the City of the Future” (nomination partner – “SIBUR”):
Secondary school:
1st place – Oleg Maslov, Lyceum No. 2 (Perm), video clip – “Materials of the Future.”
2nd place – Ilya Getman, School No. 36 (Belgorod), video – “Polymers as the main components of modern construction solutions.”
3rd place – Evgeny Bogdashov, School No. 19 with in-depth study of individual subjects (Zavolzhye, Nizhny Novgorod region), video clip – “Grafen: revolution in building the future”.
Secondary school:
1st place – Artur Korolev, School No. 1317 (Moscow), video – “Elastomers. Why are elastomers ‘better’ than plastics?”.
2nd place – Mikhail Karpunin, School No. 39 “Center for Physics and Mathematics Education” (Ryazan), video – “Life cycle of polymer materials”.
3rd place – Margarita Vaskova, Gymnasium No. 22 (Barnaul, Altai Krai), video – “Problems of using beet pulp.”
Elementary school:
1st place – Yan Yakushin, School No. 220 (Novosibirsk), video – “Polymers as the main components of modern construction solutions.”
2nd place – Yulia Pugova, Gymnasium No. 631 (Saint Petersburg), video clip – “Tapalapka made of elastomer.”
3rd place – Tatyana Scherbinina, School in Kapotnya (Moscow), video – “Miracle Plastic.”
Nomination “Engine Building” (nomination partner – JSC “United Engine Corporation”):
High school:
1st place – Timofey Kovalev, Pskov Technical Lyceum (Pskov), video clip – “How physics lifts airplanes into the sky.”
2nd place – Maria Golub, School No. 289 (Zaozyorsk, Murmansk Region), video – “Car on a Rubber Engine”.
3rd place – Nikolay Nesterenko, Lyceum No. 280 named after M.Yu. Lermontov (Saint Petersburg), video clip – “Singular Valve”.
Secondary school:
1st place – Matvey Sushinin, School No. 24 named after Boris Rukavitsyn (Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region), video clip – “Heart of the Airplane”.
2nd place – Egor Merkulov, School No. 2070 (Moscow), video – “Turbojet Engine in the section ‘Simply About the Complex.'”
3rd place – Dmitry Frolov, Center for Creative Development “Academy” (Kostroma), video – “Rocket Engine”.
Junior school:
1st place – Georgy Chernyshev, Kurchatov School (Moscow), video clip – “Flight Secret – The Heart of the Airplane”.
2nd place – Taisia Kondratyeva, School No. 17 (Kaluga), video – “Engines of the future – straight from the printer!”.
3rd place – Maria Knipovich, School No. 27 (Blagoveshchensk), video – “Steel heart of the airplane.”
Nomination “Device of the Future: From Idea to Drawing” (nomination partner – All-Russian Public-State Movement of Children and Youth “First Movement”).
High school:
1st place – Radmir Otstavnov, School No. 15, (Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan), video clip – “Smart Mirror HealthScan”.
2nd place – Ekaterina Tereshkova, School No. 2 named after Marshal of the Soviet Union N.I. Krylov (Solnechny settlement, Krasnoyarsk Territory), video – “Creating neurons with the help of differentiation of human somatic cells.”
3rd place – Maksim Shvidkiy, Children’s Technopark “Quantorium-28” (Svobodny, Amur Region), video clip – “Si-1”.
Secondary school:
1st place – Dmitry Zhavoronkov, Bauman Engineering School No. 1580 (Moscow), video – “Smart full-cycle recycling containers MusorUm.”
2nd place – Mariya Mileina, School No. 9 (Stupino, Moscow region), video – “Sonovids Device.”
3rd place – Nikita Postanogov, Lyceum “Technical” named after S.P. Korolyov (Samara), video clip – “Autopoliv in JavaScript for two plants”.
Junior School:
1st place – Egor Perelygin, School in Kapotnya (Moscow), video clip – “Smart Backpack.”
2nd place – Roman Belov, School No. 5, (Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk Region), video clip – “CyberGuard”.
3rd place – Sofia Demenyova, School No. 1409, (Moscow), video – “Bionics is not just science, it is the device of the future.”
Nomination “Science, History, Man” (nomination partner – editorial office of “Avanta” publishing house “AST”):
High school:
1st place – Sofya Kurkchi, School No. 4 named after Jacques Yves Cousteau (Saint Petersburg), video – “Marie Curie: the light that changed the world.”
2nd place – Milana Kazyuta, Classical Boarding School of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow), video – “Yuly Mikhailovich Shokalsky: ‘The man who named the ocean the World Ocean'”.
3rd place – Milana Kutsevolova, School No. 13 (Veliky Novgorod), video – “The Multifaceted Leonardo da Vinci.”
High school:
1st place – Anastasia Vinogradova, Gymnasium No. 631 (Saint Petersburg), video – “Anatomy: Journey into Eternity.”
2nd place – Veronika Netrebina, School-Gymnasium No. 10 named after E.K. Pokrovsky (Simferopol), video clip – “DNA. One hundred years of discoveries!”.
3rd place – Ekaterina Yurochkina, School No. 2 named after Marshal of the Soviet Union N.I. Krylov (Solnechny settlement, Krasnoyarsk Krai), video clip – “Invisible Shield: The Birth of the Antibiotic Era”.
Elementary school:
1st place – Maksim Nosulich, School No. 760 named after A.P. Maresyev (Moscow), video – “The Russian Code of Courage: A Small Interview with Great Women.”
2nd place – Mariya Anikeeva, School No. 1518 (Moscow), video clip – “APGA Scale.”
3rd place – Agafya Savchenko, School No. 1526 on Pokrovskaya (Moscow), video – “There is no forest on the ground!”.
Nomination “Instruction on Artificial Intelligence, understood by everyone” (nomination partner – “Avito”):
High school:
1st place – Snezhana Popova, Alexander Atroshchenko Education Center (Tver), video clip – “Neurosnezh, help.”
2nd place – Sergey Peshin, Southern SOSH (p. Yuzhny, Kaliningrad region), video – “Create with Artificial Intelligence”.
3rd place – Gleb Galgash, School No. 303 named after Friedrich Schiller (Saint Petersburg), video – “Artificial Intelligence: possibilities, limits, comparison with humans”.
Average school:
1st place – Viktoriya Gereles, Molchanovskaya Secondary School (Molchanovo village, Amur region), video – “Artificial Intelligence: Magic or Mathematics?”.
2nd place – Anna Nikulina, School No. 8 “Educational Center” named after V.Z. Michelson (Novokuybyshevsk, Samara Region), video clip – “II+Arduino=Thereminvox”.
3rd place – Sofya Galayan, School No. 1 (Mikhaylovsk, Stavropol Krai), video clip – “Interesting Case”.
Junior school:
1st place – Aleksandra Aristova, Technological Lyceum “Avangard” (Omsk), video clip – “Neural network: magic or science?”.
2nd place – Daniil Savostin, School No. 491 Maryino (Moscow), video – “II – it’s simple. Ask Aviši!”.
3rd place – Daniil Eryomenko, School No. 463 named after Hero of the Soviet Union D.N. Medvedev (Moscow), video – “Instruction on Artificial Intelligence.”
According to the results of the fifth season of the contest “Do you know? Teach!”, the best mentor was chosen – Fyodor Pavlov, a literature teacher at Moscow school No. 1557, curator of the project “Media class in Moscow school.”
Moscow School No. 338 named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.F. Avdeev was recognized as the most active: it was its students who submitted the largest number of works to the competition.
82 subjects of Russia participated in the contest “Do You Know? Teach!”. As a result, the top 5 regions were determined by the number of submitted videos. The rating was headed by Moscow, followed by the Stavropol Territory, Moscow Region, Saint Petersburg, and the Republic of Tatarstan rounded out the top five.
The solemn award ceremony for the competition winners, including the best mentor and the best school, will be held on May 28 at the M. Gorky Film Studio venue, where organizers, representatives of science and business will also gather to sum up the season and celebrate the winners’ achievements.
Note that the scientific-popular video contest “Do you know? Teach!” is organized by the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “National Priorities” and is conducted as part of the initiative “Science to Win” of the Decade of Science and Technology.
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