On February 5, 2021, an online meeting of the faculty of the Department of Artificial Intelligence Technologies with graduates of the First Temirtau Classical Lyceum (FTKL) was held at the Karaganda Industrial University in the online format. The initiators of the meeting were the students, teachers of FTKL and Druzhinin Valery Mikhailovich, who is responsible for vocational guidance in the Department of Energy.

At the beginning of the meeting, the professor of the Department of Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Vice-Rector of the Karaganda Industrial University Sivyakova Galina Aleksandrovna addressed the graduates with a welcoming speech. She told the guests of the university about the main areas of application of artificial intelligence (business analytics, automatic translation, speech recognition, intelligent information security systems, recognition of visual images, etc.).

Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence Technologies Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Kunaev introduced the graduates to the educational programs «Software Engineering», «Artificial Intelligence Technologies», «Engineering of Automation Systems», their advantages, admission rules. PTCL students learned what disciplines they will study upon admission to these educational programs, which professional competencies they will acquire, and who they will be able to work on after completing their studies.

Senior teachers Ekaterina Vladimirovna Spichak and Zhanna Ivanovna Titova showed the graduates the equipment and software of the Digital Technologies competence center, told about possible areas of its application.

At the end of the meeting, representatives of KarIU answered questions from alumni and teachers who were interested, among other things, in the possibility of further participation in such online events held by the university.