On June 29, 2019, the Stary Oskol Technological Institute of National University of Science and Technology MISIS welcomed the diploma delivery ceremony for full- and part-time graduates. An honored guest at the University's 40th anniversary was CEO of TH Group, Alexander Dubovitsky.

The ceremony was opened with the video message from the President of NUST MISIS, A. A. Chernikova, who congratulated the anniversary graduates on their degrees and wished them great success in careers. Deans, professors, and tutors also had the commencement addresses and wished the just-graduated specialists to never stop going and set harder goals.

Dean of the Department of Automation and Information Technology, Yu. I. Eremenko expressed his personal gratitude to CEO of Reliability Technologies Alexander Dubovitsky and engineers of Geoexpert and Skypower companies for cooperation with the university and active participation in the personnel training. In his turn, Alexander Dubovitsky thanked his colleagues from the Stary Oskol Technological Institute and noted that the creative alliance of the IT enterprise and the university made the master classes and RobotEra robotics festival the region's grand events.

We should remind that the Stary Oskol Technological Institute hosted master classes, lectures, and competitions in the field of drone racing between robotics schools. The event was totally new to the Belgorod Region. Drone racing was introduced in November 2018 and in February 2019, on the Day of Russian Science, the 2nd Open Regional Children's and Teens' Robotics Festival titled RobotEra which included the brand-new discipline, drone racing (sports drone handling). Around 400 participants and guests—sports robotics enthusiasts and technology art connoisseurs—came there to engage in the festival of young scientists, engineers, and researchers.

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This year, some 300 full-and part-time students graduated from the Stary Oskol Technological Institute, specifically from the Engineering and Economics Department, Department of Automation and Information Technology, and Department of Metallurgy and Machine Engineering.

Reliability Technologies Group is interested in unleashing the potential of IT graduates — especially university graduates — by providing them with jobs. Since 2015, the students of IT departments of Belgorod universities have been actively involved in the company development and getting practical experience valuable for their personal and professional growth.

The partnership between Reliability Technologies and the Stary Oskol Technological Institute of NUST MISIS keep evolving: in the new academic year, the most endeavors will be focused on building up joint IT projects and cutting-edge solutions and implementing them at the industry's major enterprises.