Awarding of winners and nominees of the All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Contest ‘Step to the Stars’

On May 8, 2025, the results of the All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Contest ‘STEP TO THE STARS’ were summed up at the O.M. Makarov National Youth Aerospace Education Center , the winners and nominees were announced.

The competition received more than 250 drawings from the cities of Dnipro, Kamianske, Shakhtarske in Dnipro Oblast, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Lutsk, Kryvyi Rih, Drabiv village in Cherkasy Oblast, Shramkivka village and other cities of Ukraine.

The jury consisted of:

- Tatiana Streltsova, chairman of the jury, head of the organisational and information department of the Makarov NYAEC;

- Viktoriia Vozna, Head of the Department of Youth, Sports and Gender Policy of the Department of Culture and Sports of the Dnipro Regional Council, member of the NGO ‘WOMEN plus’;

- Lada Tetirko - Head of the Advertising and Communication Policy Group

 of the Yuzhnoye State Design Office named after M.K. Yangel;

- Inna Klymchuk, specialist of the multimedia department of the

O.M. Makarov National Centre for Advanced Study of the Automation and Information Technologies.

The jury spent several hours carefully selecting the best works, guided not only by the skill and technique of execution, but also by the uniqueness of the idea and inner world of the young artists.

For this, we are very grateful to our esteemed jury.

The winners and nominees were awarded with certificates and diplomas, as well as memorable gifts from the O.M. Makarov NYAEC. The heads of the winners were awarded with letters of appreciation. Special prizes for the nominees were prepared by representatives of Yuzhnoye SDO and the "WOMEN plus" NGO, who

handed them to the nominees.

We congratulate all the winners and nominees and wish them creative inspiration and success in the next year's Step to the Stars All-Ukrainian Children's Drawing Competition!