additional education

Introduction. The article reveals pre-professional training in secondary schools, which is a complex and multifaceted process aimed at developing students’ professional knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to make an appropriate choice of profession. This training should be based on modern labor market requirements and contribute to the formation of a well-founded educational trajectory of the student. Theoretical analysis.

The article is devoted to the study of the educational robotics' potential, capable of ensuring the formation of students’ creative abilities. Particular attention is paid to the use of modern means of robotics within the framework of a developing subject-oriented learning environment (based on mechatronics, a set of case studies, etc.), the use of educational robotics as part of STEM education, and project activities that ensure the targeted development of students’ creative abilities.