Omsk will name the best IT teacher of the year, the winner of the All-Russian competition of methods for using digital technologies in children's education.

The award ceremony will be held as part of the IT Forum at the international conference "Information Technologies in Education" on February 8 in the regional Congress Hall.

This year, 134 applications were submitted by teachers from the Arkhangelsk Region, Tomsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Perm, Pavlovsk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Belgorod Region, and the Republic of Udmurtia. Of these, 52 works reached the semifinals. The largest number of applications for participation in the competition was submitted in the nomination "The use of digital technologies in the educational process", in the nomination "The use of a 3D printer in project activities" six teachers became semi-finalists.

As noted by Yulia Natskevich, co-chair of the organizing committee, the All-Russian IT Teacher Competition has expanded its geography, and the quality of submitted works has improved. "This is the third time we are holding the conference. Today we can say that "Information Technologies in Education" is the largest event in the field of digital education outside the Urals, the Conference has its own face, and it has become a landmark event in the Omsk region. We look forward to fruitful and constructive work at the Conference, which will help the digital transformation of education," Yulia Natskevich said.

The expert community of the competition was formed according to the application principle. Anyone who wanted to become an expert could fill out a questionnaire, answer the question why they wanted to become an expert, and participate in the review of the work. These are ordinary teachers, teachers of additional education, deputy heads of educational organizations who evaluate the work according to the proposed criteria and write reviews.

The competition is organized by the Sneil Center for Continuing Education, and the competition is supported by the Ministry of Education of the Omsk Region. Oleg Smolin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, Curator of the Expert Council on Information Technologies in Education and Science, Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, became the Chairman of the organizing committee. You can get acquainted with the participants and their works, experts and the jury on the website.

The third international conference "Information Technologies in Education" will be held as part of the IT Forum from February 7-8. This is the largest Conference on the issue of digital education development outside the Urals. As of today, 950 participants have registered to participate in the conference, 110 of them are speakers, more than a third of the participants represent other regions of the country and neighboring countries.

There will be 9 tracks in the conference. These are the main areas dedicated to all levels of education: preschool, primary, secondary, higher and additional. Educational tracks: "Digital Preschool Education", "School of the Future", "Modern additional education", "Digital Library", "Inclusive and special education", "The future of higher education", "Digital College", "Robotics in education", "Leaders of the educational industry".