The innovative art center for youth «Solnechnyi» will open at TSPU on 24 May 2016. This center will be situated on the territory of TSPU academic building №8 (Karl Ilmer Street 15/1).  A standard set of equipment by FabLab will be used in the center. Specialists of the center are going organize masterclasses for pupils in robotic technology as well as lessons on various topics: 3D print, basics of programming, «School of Digital Technologies» and «Programming of Arduino robots» courses. Employees of «Solnechnyi» will also provide technical and engineering service. According to the press service of the Tomsk administration the innovative art center for youth «Solnechnyi» was financed by the city administration in December last year within the measures aimed to support business in Tomsk. It is the fourth center of this kind opened in Tomsk. Facilities of the center allow to create prototypes of items, including those one made with a use of 3D technologies, as well as to conduct milling, turning, locksmithing, soldering, electrical work. The innovative art center for youth «Solnechnyi» is an open platform that does not follow any specific, scientific or commercial  direction. It is a free environment where youngsters have an opportunity to fulfill their technical ideas, to learn and exchange experience with each other.