Moscow (Russia) hosted the award ceremony for the winners of the First Season of the League of Lecturers, with fifty prizes awarded to their rightful owners – one of them being Maria Lapina (lecturer, NCFU).

The League of Lecturers is a large contest for educators of all ages, where everyone is welcome to try their hand as a lecturer, find their audience and get a prize. This year the organizers got over 2.5 applications submitted from 80 areas of Russia, while the potential contestants were students, teachers, writers, business-coaches and even bloggers.

– What our contestants do is not just delivery of knowledge. While speaking as lecturers, they become role models and perfect examples of someone who feel the truth in what they do. Once people see them doing it, they will believe they can do it, too, and then they will start doing something as well, – Sergey Kirienko (First Assistant Head, President’s Administration of Russia) was quoted as saying. –this project will definitely become a regular event, and already now we accept applications for the spring round of the League of Lecturers.

After three tours of the contest – an essay, a video-presentation, and an online-lecture – the finalists had to deliver speeches to three different audiences in the leading universities of Russia, and this is where Maria Lapina (Associate Professor, Dept of Information Security in Automated Systems, NCFU) spoke to the audience of the Moscow Aviation Institute.

– Of course, this is hard and exciting to speak to a new audience but this is part of professionalism, part and parcel of a teacher's life. I really enjoyed it, – Maria shared.

Each of the winners was awarded the honorary status of the Lecturer and a chance to speak at the best platforms of the country. Besides, they will get different trips allowing them to visit the most picturesque places of our country, such as Kamchatka or Baikal.

From the next season on, the winners will also be awarded grants to undergo some refresher course or to create their own educational content.