The project fair as an educational game-based tool of students’ project activity

This Modernization of technology requires training of personnel with new competencies and establishment of centers for innovation in education, research, and technologies within the framework of higher education system. According to that tendency Project activity direction was created in the system of Elite Engineering Education in Tomsk Polytechnic University. The key features of the organization of this course are its practice-oriented approach and the immediate outcome presented during the “Elite Engineering Education Project Fair”, which is a set of events aimed at facilitating students' research and project activity. This article observes event “Elite Engineering Education Project Fair” as a gameficational event interstitial into educational process. The article describes in detail he content of this science and project-oriented occurrence.