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• The Experiment: Living Zero Waste for a Week

  …vities, but with some TV show playing in the background, is actually kind of grounding) and to bring all this scourge to the environment to my local recycling initiative’s waste collection event set to take place the following day. I’d been fully aware that recycling is just at its onset in Russia, promoted only by grassroots enthusiasts like the good peeps over a…

  09.08.2019

• Modern Visual Effects: Applications and Software

  …About VFX VFX are visual effects created by combining live-action footage with additional processing. The approaches vary: sometimes, a green screen is used as a backdrop and then computer-generated images are added (widely used in the second Star Wars trilogy), or the appearance of an actor is changed after filming (the costume of Iron Man). In simple, VFX is alw…

  09.08.2019

• How Games are Changing Education

  …ular one in that it gives teacher accounts special privileges allowing them to control the in-game world: from producing unlimited resources to protecting user-made builds from destruction. Members of the game’s educational community (a majority of them from the USA, Sweden, and Finland) use the game to teach a number of subjects. For example, recreations of ancient …

  09.08.2019

• Russian School Students Score a Resounding Victory at the 2019 International Olympiad in Informatics

  …d medals category; the final decision on his eligibility for the gold medal will be made by a vote on Saturday, August 10. The award ceremony will be held on the same day. The selection and training of the Russian team’s members took place at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In November and May, training camps were held, with 20 participants chosen …

  09.08.2019

• 15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest

  …p catalog release, Terald managed to gather over 50,000 unique users in as little as four days. Yuri Babalin (St. Petersburg) showcased his original code for enabling smooth interaction between the different devices in a smart house system, while Neola Lisitsyna, a school student from Abakan, developed a biometric security system which is based on saccadic (micro)…

  08.08.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 10-11, 2019

  …Sentinel on the Neva  August 10-11, 11am-6pm Oreshek Fortress 450 rubles, 400 for students Epic battle reconstructions, archery bootcamps, artisanal workshops, and medieval tavern feasts: the hour of the annual Sentinel on the Neva festival has struck, bringing you tons of opportunities for living it up like the folks in the filthy, noisy, and somber d…

  07.08.2019

• ChemBio Cluster Master’s Students on Their International Internship Experience

  …nguage wouldn’t be easy.  What you can learn as part of an internship The educational process was the most exciting aspect for me: how the studies were organized, how the interaction between students and lecturers came about. The subjects I studied were pretty complex but really interesting, and our lecturers managed to explain them in such a cogitable way that…

  07.08.2019

• Grad Platforma: User-Driven City Events Aggregator

  …rma have been developed. The project's website allows you to subscribe to events in a specific city and receive notifications by email. The VK bot gradinformer operates the search function and also effects subscriptions to events. Still in the works is a mobile app, currently unavailable as the project’s authors are perfecting the system in regard to the security and…

  06.08.2019

• Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University

  …iversity’s first class of the Master’s program in science communication and chief editor of Scandinavia Clinic’s media portal. What to expect Medical Lab includes four themed sections that include questions of low-to-high difficulty on various subjects, including ones that even some scientists cannot come to a consensus on. The first sec…

  06.08.2019

• Taste Summer Like a Russian

  …You’ve got to love beets (and wear something other than white) to enjoy cold borscht. This tangy soup somehow marries cucumbers, eggs, dill and buttermilk for a brightly colored concoction that is a go-to summer lunch option in a nation that loves soups. Blended with a twist If you think you’ve tried a fizz, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. This is my personal favor…

  05.08.2019