A solemn awarding ceremony was held for the winners of the All-Russian competition «Smart Guy», including four students of Stavropol Agrarian University.

The UMNIK program is aimed at supporting commercially oriented scientific and technical projects of young researchers. The winners received 500,000 rubles each to implement their ideas.

Artyom Radchenko, a student of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, became the best in the Digital Technologies nomination with the project «Development of a software and hardware control complex for unmanned aircraft systems».

Vitaly Komogorov, a student of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, won in the nomination «New devices and Hardware Complexes», who presented the development of a vertical stabilization system with remote scanning of the soil relief in the construction of a mounted cultivator.

The nomination «Biotechnology» was won by Lyudmila Bespalova, a student of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology, with the development of a bacterial drug to increase the effectiveness of adaptive and functional characteristics of animals, and Ksenia Chervyakova, a graduate student, who developed a device for honey bees against ectoparasites.