Today, Acting Rector of the Volga Region University of Sports Rafis Burganov met with the winners and prize-winners of several competitions in which students of our university needed to show a creative approach to solving competitive tasks in combination with professional skills and theoretical knowledge. The ability to think outside the box, creatively helped to become one of the best, both students of the Department of Service and Tourism, and future SAMBO coaches!
A whole set of Cups and medals won at the Worldskills Russia competition venues were brought to the meeting with the rector by students of the International Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, who were prepared for starts by the head of the Department of Service and Tourism Maria Vesloguzova and Associate Professor of the Department Yulia Ibatullova. In the 2020/21 season, the Alice Koroleva/ Valeria Vasilyeva tandem reached the Ufa final of the "Young Professionals" championship (Worldskills Russia) in the competence of "Tour Operator activity" and became the silver medalist in Ufa!
In the current season-2021/22 in the regional stage, held on the basis of the Volga Region University, the participants who won prizes in the competencies "Travel Agency activity" and "Tour Operator activity" were determined, who will compete in the semifinals for reaching the National Final of Worldskills Russia.
But, as Rafis Burganov noted today, the first "silver" pancake, which turned out to be quite tasty, should be followed by an even more successful one – "golden". For this, the rector assured, the university is ready to create all conditions. Moreover, according to Rafis Timerkhanovich, Worldskills is not so much "about medals" as about the continuation of the good old tradition of professional skill competitions:
- You need this first of all in order to come to the workplace practice-oriented. Your experience will also help your neighbors at the student desk.
In addition to success in Worldskills, students of the International Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism have achieved several other major successes in the past year. We have already reported about the victory in the contest "50 best innovative ideas for the Republic of Tatarstan" by Tatiana Khevronin and Victoria Bakina with the project "Special vending machines for the sale of medical products".
Another bright achievement of the teachers of the Department of Service and Tourism is the victory of their students in the XII Republican contest "Journey to the origins 2021" in the nomination "The best excursion route in the Tatar language" with the project "Boek Vatan sugyshy geroylary ezlarennen".
Well, sambo students of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Martial Arts, as you know, recently distinguished themselves by becoming winners of the All-Russian online Sambo Festival "UniversityMassSambo", dedicated to the International Day of Student Sports. To do this, they recorded and presented three videos: "Self-defense without weapons", "The best of the best" (technique of performing techniques) and "I'm on trend!" (self-presentation of a wrestler in the fashionable "vine" format). Thus, they became the best both in the sports arena (as winners of the Student Sambo League Championship) and on the set.
As the director of the International Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism Rezeda Khadiullina and the head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Martial Arts Yuri Boltikov noted at the meeting, these victories would have been impossible without the support of the university management. The rector, in turn, reminded the students and their supervisors that it is impossible to achieve new successes in sports or in other areas, "resting on our laurels", and advised them to prepare for new starts and competitions with full dedication.
