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"The Superheroes School is a state institution that ensures the right to education for young hospital patients. In the educational centers currently operating in 23 hospitals in Ukraine, children can continue their education even during long-term treatment. One of the Superheroes School's lessons took the students out of the hospital and into the Ukrainian Akademik Vernadsky station in Antarctica.

A real-time, online geography lesson for the 7th grade brought together more than 100 superheroes from all educational spaces of the Superheroes School in Ukraine. This tradition of online lessons has existed at the School since 2023, and this time, the interactive lesson was held in direct connection with Antarctica. The head of the 30th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition, Oleksandr Poluden, came to meet the young patients of the School of Superheroes.

An ordinary geography lesson turned into a fascinating journey, as Oleksandr conducted an online tour of the station, told about the life of polar explorers and climatic conditions, showed the station's surroundings and told about the animals living in the neighborhood. Not was without an integrative part - building a temperature graph, which the students learned quickly and easily.

The idea of the lesson belongs to Andriy Utkin, a geography teacher at the Superheroes School educational center in Kyiv's Okhmatdyt, . "It was important that the children not just listen and memorize the material, but really feel the atmosphere of Antarctica; to really get interested in the subject, to forget for a moment that they are in a hospital. Together, we managed to turn a geography lesson into a trip with a therapeutic effect," says the teacher. The teleport to Antarctica was made possible thanks to the technical support of IT super-teacher Oleksandr Dumyshynets from educational territory of Midguard.

"I am pleasantly surprised by the communication and the fact that children already know about the Akademik Vernadsky station and ask adult questions. It is very important to show students what they study and usually see only on the pages of textbooks. Perhaps this will inspire superheroes to choose the future profession of a polar explorer. Vernadsky station has been operating for almost 30 years and right now we are preparing a new shift of polar scientists who will soon report on the results of their research themselves," said Oleksandr Poluden.