Polina Yakovleva: "Exploring Space is Much More Interesting"

In November, news arrived about the victory of Polina Yakovleva, a master's student at the Institute of Aerospace Engineering. The young woman came first at the All-Russian Science Slam held in Tomsk.

Introducing herself to the audience, she stated: "I dreamed of becoming a cosmonaut, but now I understand that exploring space is much more interesting."

Polina Yakovleva brought a real PocketQube format satellite to Siberia – she literally pulled it out of her pocket during her presentation (!) – and won over the slam audience with her story about the intricacies of creating an antenna, mounting it on board, and deployment methods. Everything worked for the win: the cats in the presentation, the satellite itself, the speaker's natural charm. And at the end, the audience also saw a sumo wrestler's greeting ritual performed by Polina, who practiced this sport for six years!

Let's watch the stream and rejoice for the young scientist from Samara University!

Text by Elena Pamurzina