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• Volunteering Unlimited: Students from Russia's 35 Regions Presented Their Projects in Yagodnoe

  … Lilac Alley, Chita Anatoliy Kireev, Lilac Alley Another program for children is already being conducted by the camp's participants from Chita. Anatoliy Kireev and Svetlana Raspopova, students of the Transbaikal State University, came to the accelerator in Yagodnoe to present their Lilac Alley project that helps socialize children with oncohematologic disease…

  26.05.2017

• Faculty of Secondary Education Holds School Olympics on Occasion of Confederations Cup

  … where you can freely play. Almost every neighborhood has a football field, you can rent one, too, so I don’t think this is an issue these days. Kristina Isaeva and Svetlana Minina, students, football tournament participants. When we were kids, back in first grade, our PE teacher said we should try football. At first we weren’t interested, but then we gave …

  23.05.2017

• Deputy Head of St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Center: Why the City Needs IT Experts and How to Create Systems for the Government

  …rvices. If these websites once used to only serve as information boards, now they present a two-sided interactive system – a user can make a submission, receive a reply and explanation. But there are systems that perform the functions of certain government agencies – for instance, our own integrated analysis system. It doesn’t directly work with the citizens; it e…

  18.05.2017

• Visiting Scientist Silvio Hrabar: Why It’s Important to Find New Uses for Old Discoveries

  … one I remember best is back from when metamaterials research had just begun. I was looking through the earliest publications on the matter and found presented mathematical explanation clear and correct. However, I had no idea how it works physically and whether it could be described using classic engineering methods. Then I finally managed to put it into the right w…

  16.05.2017

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

  …ns, referred to 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…

  12.05.2017

• Tournament for Two Capitals: High School Children Presented their Robots

  …zanov and Vsevolod Gorodetsky, coach: Alexey Lakhmenev); the Vikings (participant: Alexander Ilyin, coach: Alexey Lakhmenev) and Hulk (participant: Pavel Dobryagin, coach: Svetlana Shvetsova). “I am interested in robotics for five months. I’m going to be an inventor in future. I take part in the King of the Hill task. During the contest we had to modify the robo…

  02.05.2017

• ITMO's Team Nominated for the "Top 50 Most famous people in St. Petersburg"

  …g the charity providers nominated for the award are also founders of the "Stars to children" foundation, Zenit football club's forward player Alexandr Kerzhakov and his wife Milana Kerzhakova. Ksenia Chapkevich, one of the initiators of the "Homeward" flashmob, was also nominated - after the tragedy in St. Petersburg subway on April, 3, thousands of the city's cit…

  21.04.2017

• Vadim Veiko: “Lasers Are Omnipotent”

  … had – nobody provided education programs devoted to lasers. However, those who visited these seminars, wanted to work only on laser technologies. We started our career at Svetlana Engineering Enterprise, which was the first organization in the Soviet Union that started developing microelectronics. One of our tasks was to make microscopic holes in ferrite plates, the…

  17.04.2017

• Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience

  … Guilherme: Our course's students all have different levels of training. So, it must be hard for the lecturers to tend to everybody's needs, as some don't need particular explanations, while for others they are crucial. Why did you choose ITMO and not some other university? Manuel Gasteiger, University of Innsbruck, Austria: I wanted to try something new; goi…

  13.04.2017

• Society or Scientists: Who Needs Science Communication More?

  …ility to make decisions using common sense and intuition. It is not the same as rational thinking in terms of science, where experiments rule. There is a difference between explanations based on logic and reasons. The logical way is when A is followed by B, which is followed by C and so forth. The explanation based on reasons is grounde…

  02.03.2017