Schoolchildren discovered the secrets of the power station: a trip to CHPP-3

School students of 11 ‘B’ class of Gymnasium №38 in Otegen-batyr settlement had an amazing trip in March, which will stay in their memory for a long time. As part of the ‘Year of working professions’ and the project aimed at the promotion of energy specialties, AlES JSC invited schoolchildren to CHPP-3. It was the first immersion into the world of giant turbines, huge boilers and complex engineering systems for 18 high school students of humanitarian profile and their class teacher Valentina Alexandrovna Zakharchuk.

As soon as they entered the territory of the station, the students’ faces were filled with amazement and admiration. “We had no idea that the power station was so huge and located so close to our village,’ they later shared. After the obligatory introductory briefing and getting protective helmets (because safety is the main priority of AlES JSC), the journey through the shops, where light and heat for thousands of homes are born, began.

The trip was conducted by Murat Olzhabaev, Deputy Chief Engineer. He developed a special safe route that allowed the children to pass through key areas: from the fuel and transport shop, where coal starts its path, to boilers, turbines and generators. The schoolchildren witnessed how coal is transformed into energy, and how work is conducted in the shops, and how the coordinated work of hundreds of specialists ensures uninterrupted operation of the station.

– It was incredible! In some places, it was like being inside a huge living organism, Maria Birbichadze said emotionally. Her classmate Zhanerke Baimbetova added: “Before, we just switched on the light in the socket without even thinking about the titanic work behind it. Now I know for sure – the energy workers are real heroes!”

Despite the humanitarian bias of the class, the trip lit a spark of interest in technical sciences in the students. They asked questions one after another: ‘How do they control such gigantic mechanisms?’, ‘What are the most important professions here?’, ‘Is it possible to work at the power station? “Is it possible to work at the station if you like physics?” Murat Olzhabayev answered each one in detail, emphasizing: ‘Power engineering is not only strength, but also intellect. We need engineers, ecologists, and IT specialists here.

AlES JSC not only opened the doors to the schoolchildren to the world of professions of the future, but also showed that behind the brand of the company there are real people, technologies and mission – to provide uninterrupted supply of heat and energy. Perhaps this very day will become for some of the children the first step in the career of a power engineer.

“Such projects change the way young people look at working professions”, said Valentina Zakharchuk».

The trip was over, but the impressions will remain for a long time. And AlES JSC has got new potential ambassadors – inspired schoolchildren, who now know for sure: light in their homes is generated here, thanks to the labour, knowledge and passion of real professionals.