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NXplorers: Ozgeris Lab 2025
From thinking to change
28 November 2025, Astana

A national science-based educational festival focused on thinking, ecology, and sustainable development, bringing together students and educators from across the country.
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NXplorers: Ozgeris Lab 2025
From thinking to change
28 November 2025, Astana

A national science-based educational festival focused on thinking, ecology, and sustainable development, bringing together students and educators from across the country.
REGISTRATION
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NXplorers: Ozgeris Lab 2025
NXplorers: Ozgeris Lab 2025 is a national festival where students and educators transform ideas into practical solutions using tools of the international NX Thinking methodology.
The festival promotes a culture of systems thinking and modern STEAM education through lectures, laboratories, and presentation formats.
As part of the event, 20 finalist teams of the “NXplorers: Jasyl Urpaq Bäigesi” competition will present and defend their environmental projects, and five of them will be awarded grants of KZT 1,000,000 each to implement their solutions.
More about the NXplorers program

WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE FESTIVAL?

  • Intensive practicums and lectures revealing next-generation thinking and applied STEAM approaches
  • In-depth workshops, signature masterclasses, discussions, and NX Thinking methodology labs
  • Project presentations and the Final of the national competition “NXplorers: Жасыл ұрпақ бәйгесі”
  • Gamification and interactive challenges via a Telegram bot
  • Prize draws and valuable gifts from festival partners
  • Special immersive activities designed to create a full engagement experience

WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE FESTIVAL?

  • Intensive practicums and lectures revealing next-generation thinking and applied STEAM approaches
  • In-depth workshops, signature masterclasses, discussions, and NX Thinking methodology labs
  • Project presentations and the Final of the national competition “NXplorers: Жасыл ұрпақ бәйгесі”
  • Gamification and interactive challenges via a Telegram bot
  • Prize draws and valuable gifts from festival partners
  • Special immersive activities designed to create a full engagement experience

Who is the festival for?

Students in grades 7-11
Teachers of Chemical and Biological Sciences
Science enthusiasts
Educational companies
Festival Programme
9:00 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 - 10:40
Festival opening ceremony
10:40 – 11:20
EcoScent: the art of fragrance and caring for the world
Leila Uteulieva
Author of Kazakhstan's first STEAM perfume project, ‘AromaMagic’.
11:20 – 11:30
Prize draw
11:30 – 12:10
ESG: simple words about a complex system. How schools and universities are shaping a responsible generation
Pakizat Sailaubekova
Ecologist, podcaster, sustainable projects manager
12:10 – 12:20
Prize draw
13:40 – 14:10
Recycle art as a contemporary art movement
Kuanysh Mukhamedzhanov
Founder of Kazakhstan's first environmental gallery, Recycle-art
13:00 - 13:10
Prize draw
13:10 - 13:50
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:50
Damiel Mektepbayeva
Biotechnologist, mentor with 13 years of experience, former Vice-Rector for Science, participant in international projects at Nazarbayev University, NASA and UNESCO
14:50 - 15:00
Prize draw
15:00 - 15:00
Ecology, urbanism and the future of cities
Temirtas Iskakov
Architect-researcher, founder of the Fading.TSE project
15:50 - 16:00
Prize draw
16:00 - 17:00
Closing ceremony and awards presentation for festival participants
10:40 – 11:20
Elvira Dauletova
NX Coach
11:20 – 11:30
Prize draw
11:30 – 12:10
Creativity: How can students’ creative thinking be developed?
Bakytzhan Duisenova
Academic Director of the Bibigul Tulegenova Creative School, art historian, author of textbooks and educational programmes
12:10 – 12:20
Prize draw
13:40 – 14:10
Artificial intelligence TOP 10 tools of ‘hidden power’ in the work of a teacher
13:00 - 13:10
Prize draw
13:10 - 13:50
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:50
Achieving deep learning through the 5E model
Nazerke Karimova
Head of the Department of Natural Sciences at Quantum TECH School, Master of Science in Educational Leadership
14:50 - 15:00
Lunch break
15:00 - 15:00
PBL + Tech: How to launch WOW projects with students without complex resources
Aliya Abdinurova
Robotics teacher at Haileybury Astana, mentor to international prize winners, promoter of PBL
15:50 - 16:00
Prize draw
16:00 - 17:00
Closing ceremony and awards presentation for festival participants

SPEAKER TOPICS

  • EcoScent: how science, ecology, and perfumery shape sustainable fragrances of the future
  • PBL + Tech: launching WOW-projects with students without complex resources
  • Creativity: practices for developing creative thinking in school students
  • ESG for Educators: sustainable approaches and robotics using recycled materials
  • Modern Urbanism: city development through the preservation of cultural identit

SPEAKER TOPICS

  • EcoScent: how science, ecology, and perfumery shape sustainable fragrances of the future
  • PBL + Tech: launching WOW-projects with students without complex resources
  • Creativity: practices for developing creative thinking in school students
  • ESG for Educators: sustainable approaches and robotics using recycled materials
  • Modern Urbanism: city development through the preservation of cultural identit
Place of the Event
November 28, 2025

The NXplorers: Ozgeris Lab 2025 festival will be held in one of the capital's leading educational and innovation clusters — at the Astana International Financial Center.
Astana, 55/23 Mangilik El Avenue, AIFC Property Offices, Block C4.4
Address 2GIS
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ABOUT US IN THE MEDIA
Keep an eye out for our press and media mentions!
WEPROJECT
On November 30, 2024, Astana will host a large-scale event in science and ecology for high school students, teachers, and education professionals: the Republican Science Festival "Nxplorers Around the World." Ecology. Systemic Solutions.
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ASTANA NEWS
Republic "NXplorers" ecology competitions finals of the 1st round of kanzhygalagan Astana teams 1,000,000 tenge total grants, dep. sites.
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INFORM.KZ
This year, the NXplorers eco-festival reached a national scale for the first time. Students from across the country gathered to share scientific discoveries and present eco-projects. They delved into current issues of ecology, biology, chemistry, and NXplorers methodology, reports a Kazinform correspondent.
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Contacts
Project coordinator
Aigerim Mazhenova
+7 701 529 9998