Academic cooperation with leading educational institutions. The development of partnership relations with leading educational institutions continues. An extremely important direction of work in the current difficult times is conducting career guidance work among schoolchildren in order to help them decide on the direction of further higher education. There is no doubt that the department is interested in attracting a larger number of motivated applicants who are aware of the future specialty. It is for this purpose that the representative of the department and partner of the department JSC "Ramzai", candidate of technical sciences, Bezkorovainy Yu.M. visited Natural Science Lyceum No. 145. At the meeting with the graduating classes of the lyceum, schoolchildren were told about the directions of the department's work, about the knowledge and skills they can acquire while studying at our department, and working samples of robotic systems assembled by students in practical robotics classes were demonstrated. The interest of schoolchildren and lyceum representatives present at the event was great. At the end of the meeting, the director of the lyceum made a proposal to conduct a permanent elective course on robotics by a representative of our department. The proposal was accepted by the department. We continue cooperation with Lyceum No. 145 and look forward to training their graduates.