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• Project Session at Sirius: Implants, Security and Nano-Shampoo

  This summer, the Sirius educational center for talented children in Sochi has held its usual session on project work, followed by the Nanograd summer school. ITMO University’s team, including specialists and postgraduate students from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials and staff of Technopark resident, company NT-SPb, took part.

  10.08.2017

• Summer at Sirius: SciComm, Interactive Learning and Sports Programming

  ITMO University students and staff dedicated part of their summer to the Sirius educational center for talented children. They've worked at the center's press service, taught the school students modern educational technologies, and as trained them for programming contests.

  07.08.2017

• Gaming Your Way In Programming

  During the past several years, gamification of educational processes has become a trend in many areas. When getting ready for the Unified State Examinations or learning foreign languages, more and more students now prefer interactive forms to traditional textbooks. For this purpose, programmers create different platforms, but how can one learn programming in a similar manner? The answer is simple - the very same way, using platforms that allow to train certain skills in a game format. ITMO.NEWS would like to share about some of them.

  03.08.2017

• ITMO-UCLA Partner Program Graduates Showcase Projects

  Participants of the program “Next Generation of Women Leaders in Higher Education”, implemented by UCLA in collaboration with ITMO University, have spent six months working on their projects. Last Friday they presented their results at a meeting in St. Petersburg. Read on to find out how thousands of university employees can be brought together through a social network and how the students’ support system works in the USA.

  13.06.2017

• Creative Mornings: Psychotherapist Andrey Kurpatov Explains How Our Brain Works

  On April 28th the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines was the venue for a talk under the umbrella of international project Creative Mornings. The host was psychotherapist Andrey Kurpatov, whose best-selling works deal with psychology, methodology, philosophy and other fields of human knowledge.

  03.05.2017

• ITMO Hosts The EdCrunchSPb Educational Forum

  Last Sunday, ITMO University became the first university in St. Petersburg to host the EdCrunch forum, which was conducted only in Moscow before. Later, the forum will "leave" for Krasnoyarsk and Ekaterinburg.

  26.04.2017

• Nanotechnologies for Teenagers: How ITMO Promotes Physics

  What are CD's made of? Why are butterfly wings really gray? Why don’t lotus flowers absorb water? Can one write his name nanoscale? And how much space would Tolstoy's "War and Peace" take on a sheet of paper, if written like that? At ITMO University, we know how to explain nanotechnology to children in such a way that they would know that it can be both interesting and promising for one's future career. How science enters real business and why schoolers can be better than engineers at solving particular tasks — read that and more in our article!

  28.03.2017

• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  ITMO University’s Career Service Centre launched the ITMO.SuperHeroes project, the first meeting was held on 3 March. The special guest speaker, Vladimir Vasilyev, ITMO’s Rector, talked about his own super villain, the dream team and the first non-classical university.

  07.03.2017

• Russia Is Better Protected Against Creationism than the USA

  An international group of scientists concluded that thanks to common educational standards, the Russian school curricula is better defended against onsets of creationists — those who believe that humanity was created by some god. The researchers compared the relationship between the society and evolutionary theory in both states and found out that though technological development, culture and religion significantly affect the curricula, it is the inconsistency in coordination makes education in USA vulnerable. The research was published in the Theory in Biosciences journal.

  02.03.2017

• A New Exchange Semester Starts at ITMO University

  Yesterday, on February 6th, a new exchange semester started at ITMO University. 22 students from 9 countries came to Russia to learn IT, economics, business and cross-cultural communication.

  07.02.2017