All-Russian qualifying competitions for the right to take part in the final of the National Championship WorldSkills are being held these days in Yakutsk. The final of WorldSkills Championship will be held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in August 2018. About 300 contestants and experts from 56 Russian regions, including Tatarstan, are taking part in the competitions.
Competitions are held in six competencies for participants from 14-16 years (juniors) and 16-22 years (young professionals). Students of the Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications - Anton Polikasov (Network and System Administration) and Ivan Zhukov (Web Design), together with their teachers Almira Valiullina and Dinar Khayrullin, are taking part in competitions on IT competencies.