Currently, significant changes that actively take place in modern Russian society affect all spheres of its development. Today, due to economic globalization and high rates of innovative technologies development special attention is paid to the education system, where profound changes occur. Today, the educational process is focused on the development of personal characteristics that meet the requirements of a modern educated person. In this regard, the task of educational institutions is to adapt the educational process to today's realities. Modern school is based on the principles of effective ways of professional and personal qualities development. To achieve this goal, special attention should be paid to the need for renewal and natural science education. One of the directions of innovative activity at the lessons of natural-mathematical cycle of secondary education is STEM education. It helps children to delve into the logic of the events, understand their relationships, systematically explore the world and thereby generate curiosity, engineering style of thinking, the ability to get out of critical situations, to develop teamwork skills and learn the basics of management and self-presentation, which, in turn, provides a fundamentally new level of personal development. Key words: science education, STEM education, innovation, technology, robotics, microcontrollers, sensors, programming.

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The work is devoted to development of technical vision system for the concentration tables. It is shown that new technologies applied to the design of concentration tables will significantly help companies, specializing in extraction and handling of common minerals in deep processing of construction sands in order to obtain more expensive products. Technical vision hardware and software complex is considered as one of automation systems, that can greatly improve productivity of concentration tables, provide energy, human and essential mineral resource saving (e.g. of such minerals as titanium-zirconium raw material). Described is the mechanism of different fractions dividing on the concentration table. Shown is the process of dividing line recognition by technical vision system. Depicted is the system structure and the used elements. Pictured is the software general operation including camera image analysis before making decisions and hardware control.

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