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• Battle of the Capitals: St. Petersburg Takes Home the Prize

  …o properly programmed to complete their tasks. “Despite the Tournament’s tight schedule, kids were able to quickly prepare their robots for their assignments. Later, they managed to band together for the final task in just 10 hours. I’ve seen the older ones help the young and the young explain things to the older ones; we all felt the staggering support from the…

  15.05.2017

• A Successful Start: ITMO's Schools, Academies and Centers for Schoolers

  …e Need You! project contest. Finally, there's the new ITMO.START project that focuses on career guidance. ITMO.START is like a miniature social network where every user can manage his or her profile and get all the necessary information. After registering, the user can do a career guidance test, and use its results to choose a School at ITMO University and learn m…

  15.05.2017

• “People Need You!” Contest: Social Entrepreneurship for Children

  … standardized documents. Secondly, we look at how fully the schoolchildren have employed their newly acquired skills when implementing their project” – said Svetlana Ushakova, manager at Social Design and Entrepreneurship Center, Participants at "People Need You!" Team from School 174 took the first place with their project “Safe Internet for Kids 2.0”. The…

  12.05.2017

• Royal Society Member Maurice Skolnick: Why Making Science Understandable to Society Matters

  …fact, interact between themselves. There are two technological challenges. The first is that this generation of computers will require the creation of many elements capable of managing a large number of qubits (in modern quantum computational schemes the maximum number of qubits working at the same time is approximately 16). The second is that quantum state is extrem…

  11.05.2017

• Psychophysiologist Alexander Kaplan: Why Elon Musk is Weaving “Neural Lace” and Will AI Help Conserve Resources for Human Brain?

  …possible states of a synapse and whether it actually works similarly to a machine or if, on the contrary, it transmits signals at a higher or a lower rate. “Sejnowski has managed to prove that there are 26 such gain levels in synapses. This means that not only do we have a million billions of links – synapses – in our brain, but that each of them has 26 states. …

  10.05.2017

• Coordinating Blood Banks and Organizing International Summer Camps - How One Develops Social and Ecological Projects?

  …o Raids is part of a big international program on social entrepreneurship. This is the initial stage when we gather foreign students and conduct both an educational program on managing social projects and programs, and also conduct environment-related and cultural activities. Thus, Eco Raids acts as a lead-up for the festival where the participants begin to develop t…

  10.05.2017

• Today We Celebrate Victory Day

  …, optimistic and loving person I know. When I think about the war, I think about my mother’s aunt, who stayed in Leningrad during the siege, and not only survived, but also managed to have and raise a baby. When I think about the war, I think about my grandfather who made it to Berlin and never talked about the war. Ever. War is personal to just about everyo…

  09.05.2017

• Alexander Boukhanovsky Elected to Russian Science Foundation Review Board

  …et up at RSF. The way the examination form is structured, filled and evaluated makes it so that it primarily recognizes the objective and verified facts about the project, its manager and team. These are all filled in by the expert based on a project’s grant application. This offsets any subjective opinions of the expert and prevents expression of personal preference…

  05.05.2017

• Women in Photonics: Arti Agrawal on Female Scientists and Cultural Differences

  …lasmon nanolasers and devices based on graphene. However, apart from research I also teach Bachelor students and head an educational program on engineering and entrepreneurial management. I also take part in volunteering projects initiated by IEEE Photonics Society, Optical Society of America and IEEE Photonic Society’s Women in Photonics initiative. When did you …

  03.05.2017

• Silicon Nanoparticles for Nanosurgery: Master’s Student Publishes an Article in Nano Letters

  …ensitive signal from Raman scattering using golden particles. It is known that silicon has an optical signal, which changes under the influence of temperature. However, nobody managed to use silicon nanoparticles as heaters and nanothermometers at the same time,” added Georgy Zograf. How to publish an article in famous scientific journals when you are a Master’s…

  28.04.2017