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• Business Angels Give Tips on Making a Perfect Pitch

  …"Having visited different startup sessions during several months, we want to ask you: why are all presentations so ugly?" Why can’t you present yourselves correctly and answer easy questions?" So, we’ve decided to combine our efforts and launch this project for you," said Mr. Khorunzhy in his opening speech. The speakers focused on three topics, pre…

  27.12.2016

• Who Are Makers? Why Do They Need to Be Creative?

  …ers Association (SGMA) helps its students develop technical, research and even aesthetic skills. It means that a maker is a creative engineer with a sense of beauty. Those who want to implement their ideas into the market also have to obtain entrepreneurial skills. Such centers as ITMO’s OLYMP and FabLab were made for these purposes. When most Russian labs were cr…

  26.12.2016

• Game Development for School Students: a New Project by OLYMP Laboratory

  …o "maker culture". According to Kirill Bodrov, after organizing the "Easyfest" and "Easy!" festivals, OLYMP got many contacts with people who are interested in such events and want to learn from the experience OLYMP is always ready to share. "We want to show people that there’s nothing they can't accomplish. Most of our projects a…

  23.12.2016

• Scientists Design a Computer Simulation of a Human Artery

  …that the new collaboration with ITMO University and Almazov Medical Center will bring us closer to this goal." The future virtual artery will be partly based on a model of unwanted tissue growth inside the artery after placing a stent — an expanding frame that surgeons insert into vessels of patients suffering from stenosis. This disease develops when one or severa…

  23.12.2016

• ITMO Graduate on Three Failures and One Victory

  …then he realized that he needs to do something more than coding. Back then he saw an announcement in social networks titled with something like "Tired of working for someone? Want to start your own business?" It was an ad of ITMO’s SumIT startup school. The startuper came to the SumIT with an "aggregator" for online shopping sales. Then he transformed this idea int…

  22.12.2016

• From White Nights to Black Days: Surviving the Deep, Dark Winter in St. Petersburg

  …ed methods of staving off the winter blues — and ringing in the New Year — such as standing on Palace Square in sub-zero ass-numbing temperatures while being bombarded by the twangy, tortuous Europop strains of a litany of B-List pop-stars, punctuated by Putin’s speech on the big screen. The celebrations start there at 11pm on the 31st and go on till 4 in the morning…

  21.12.2016

• "Death and Life of Catalysts": Evgeny Pidko on Getting the ERC Grant and his Research Plans

  …nctional materials, and catalytic chemistry, as well. Still, studying these exceptions doesn’t raise the chances of success — i.e. elaborating a working technology. Thus, I want to understand why what has to work often doesn't. Truth be told, no one has ever done it before. We still don't understand the processes of degradation, destruction, deactivation, and t…

  20.12.2016

• Science Slam ITMO 2.0 Final

  …plans the sightseeing route for him. You can read more about it here. Yuri Volkov on "How to find the key to the heart of a movie lover". As a movie lover himself, Yuri wanted to get to the bottom of some false ratings he found on film websites. So he decided to make his own system by creating an algorithm that would predict whether a film would be successful …

  20.12.2016

• Things that Cheer You Up During the Winter Exams

  …ksy style and other famous street artists. You might see Rector Vladimir Vasilyev casting spells, faculty deans who look like heroes of famous blockbusters, cats with magic wands and posters with jokes and ironic mottos for making you feel relaxed about the winter exam period. "Session. I eat on the run, I'm sleep deprived. I am ashamed of surfing the net" …

  19.12.2016

• Social Entrepreneurship form All over the World

  …merican participants helps children increase their literacy rate. Another project is the First Time in a Business Class presented by Russian students from Tomsk. The activists want to involve people in entrepreneurial activities through organizing tours in business companies and the business community. "Social entrepreneurship is a trend these days. According t…

  16.12.2016