Best Wishes for the New School Year!
For the eighth time, Academic Secondary Comprehensive Schools (ALO) of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and Rybnik inaugurated a new school year. A total of 104 students joined the first-year classes.
The inauguration of the new school year at a school in Gliwice was attended by the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology, Prof. Marek Pawełczyk, who officially inaugurated the new school year with the symbolic ringing of the bell and extended his best wishes for success to all students. The event was also attended by the Vice Rector for General Affairs, Prof. Bożena Skołud.
The ceremony opened with the national anthem, sung jointly by all participants, followed by the academic hymn “Gaudeamus Igitur” performed by the student choir. The event also featured the first-year students taking their oath. Education in the first year at ALO in Gliwice began with 52 students – 26 in each of the classes, one with a polytechnic profile and one with an architectural profile.
"Older students prepared a welcoming performance for them, and played the famous hit 'Początek' from Męskie Granie Festival," said the Director of the Academic Secondary Comprehensive Schools of SUT, Małgorzata Borysławska, PhD. "Participants of the inauguration also attended a lecture by Małgorzata Szymaszek, PhD, a physics teacher, who spoke, among other things, about students' participation in events organised by the Polish Space Agency in connection with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski’s flight to the International Space Station".
During the event, the winners of the subject competitions were also awarded. The winners are: Olga Pokojska, Emilia Charuk, Marek Kasza, Artur Pyka, Adam Rumiński, Karol Simon, Kinga Indeka, and Antoni Starzec. Notably, 2/3 of this year's graduates from ALO Gliwice chose to study at the Silesian University of Technology.
"Our school is starting this year an EU-funded project from the Marshal's Office called 'Green Transformation Engineers', which will include additional classes on green technologies. We will also have new laboratories: a computer lab and a virtual reality lab. Additionally, in the laboratory at the Faculty of Chemistry, we will be able to use new equipment." explained Director Małgorzata Borysławska.
Meanwhile, the new school year was also inaugurated at the Academic Secondary Comprehensive School of SUT in Rybnik, where 52 first-year students began their education in classes with an architectural and polytechnic profile. The ceremony was honoured by the presence of the Vice Rector, Prof. Bożena Skołud, who emphasised the importance of following one’s passion and being open to the subjects offered at the secondary school. Also present were the Director of the Rybnik Branch of the University of Economics in Katowice, Prof. Tomasz Zieliński, and Bartłomiej Knosala, PhD, from the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Faculty of Organisation and Management of the Silesian University of Technology, who delivered a lecture on the vision of technology and architecture reflected in the works of Richard Buckminster Fuller.
"During the ceremony, our students, Gloria Orzyszek and Maria Kubek, told us about Albrecht Durer's graphics," said Krzysztof Lazaj, Director of ALO Rybnik. "First-year students who took their oath were especially warmly received. The Vice Rector, Prof. Skołud, formally welcomed them as students of the Academic Secondary Comprehensive School of the Silesian University of Technology by presenting them with the school badge. To mark this significant occasion, we jointly listened to the traditional academic hymn 'Gaudeamus Igitur', which reflects the joy, youth, and pleasures of life within the academic community. In addition, the winners and laureates of the regional subject competitions were awarded prizes funded by the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology."
The winners are: Filip Berger, Barbara Gębczyńska, Szymon Mazur, and Błażej Kaźmierczak. The event also included the awarding of DELF language certificates and certificates for completing training in digital graphic design, obtained as part of a project carried out at ALO by the Silesian University of Technology.
"This year, we will try out new activities, take on new projects, and complete the ongoing ones. We will attend fascinating lectures, read engaging texts, ask questions, seek answers, experiment, draw, paint and philosophise. We will also get to know students from interesting corners of the world through the Erasmus+ and Lansen programmes." announced the Director, Krzysztof Lazaj.
