Keyword: «educational program for additional education of children»

the article is devoted to the implementation of early vocational orientation in engineering areas and presents the characteristics of the first ascertaining stage of a pedagogical experiment on the implementation of early vocational orientation in engineering professions for children aged 5 to 11 years in the conditions of the STEM center. The relevance of early professional orientation to the engineering professions of children aged 5 to 11 years in the current period of intensive development of technology and digitalization is justified, the experimental base, research methods and techniques, the results obtained, their comparative analysis are briefly described, the prospects for work at the subsequent stages of the experiment are determined.