Development of creativity motivation as most important factor of creative class formation via "Strategics" Games project

the article deals with the problem of creativity motivation development as a factor of «creative class» formation. The authors present the results of new educational style carried out at Petrozavodsk State University in 2015−2017 and aimed at teamwork with high school students. The new educational style steps beyond the scopes of standard educational forms. It was invented, tested and endorsed by the specialists of non-commercial «New Dimension» Support Fund for innovation projects at the first Youth Hyperborea Forum in 2009. Today it is being developed and implemented in partnership with Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk Creativity Club № 2, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk Center of Education Development, and «Contemporary» Regional Resource Center for Additional Education. The result of joint work calls for drawing special attention to a number of paradoxes in indication the interest to innovation phenomenon in general and technical creativity in particular for high school students. The article dwells on the conditions under which the project games give both good products (innovation projects), and noticeable psychological results. Among them are the following: setting wide range of unique problems, immersion in the team projecting environment with the assistance of moderators and experts, creation of diverse meaningful and symbolic contexts. The information offered in the article may be helpful for the organizers of the system work on professional orientation for high school students and supporters of gifted youth.