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New Season of CodeX Meetups: Open Lectures and Workshops on Programming, Design, and DevOps
…alaxy. Although the participants had no background in DevOps, they managed to succeed at these tasks. As noted by Alexander, CodeX is a place where people share their knowledge and skills. Thanks to this culture, specialists can expand their horizons: developers master design and DevOps, managers know how to code, and so on. The meetups became one of its exchange…
28.07.2021
Technology in Chemistry: Positive Effect of VR on Students’ Academic Performance
… can and cannot see, be it helium in a ball, carbon in pencil graphite, or table salt.” The study was carried out as follows: 27 students had to first test their knowledge of the atomic structure and its electron configuration (the distribution of electrons in an atom) and then take the Make Your Atom lab by MEL Science. “After using VR, students had t…
26.07.2021
Project-Based Master’s Program – ITMO’s Higher School of Engineering Offers a New Approach to Education
…have experience of working on real-life projects. With this project-based Master’s program, we are aiming to cut short the number of years between getting theoretical knowledge at university and solving practical tasks in the real industry. So, starting from their first day at the program, students will be employed at the School’s labs or ITMO University partners…
23.07.2021
ITMO University Hosts Seventh SCAMT Workshop Week
…to the table: the school was conducted in English, so all documents, essays, and letters had to be provided in English, too. Other than the opportunity to work with cutting-edge equipment, obtain new skills in relevant fields of studies, and see how the ChemBio cluster functions, the participants of SWW get the opportunity to join ITMO’s Master’s programs without …
22.07.2021
ITMO Accelerator Demo Day: Top Startup Projects From Virtual Fitting Rooms to Sharing Parking Places
…k with the tracker, Maksim Makarov. It was the best benefit of the program – to have the chance to receive help from someone interested in your project, who also has more knowledge and experience, as well as sees your project from another angle. For instance, I was really underestimating CustDev that turned out to seriously alter my project. It might seem like someth…
22.07.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 24-25, 2021
… is quite simple (and possibly equally complex) – the captivating AI and human-machine interaction. This topic keeps everyone from students to artists and entrepreneurs on the edge of their seats as they’re trying to imagine, create, and implement their visions of the problem. This exhibition is just one such attempt made by the Russian art group Recycle. How do mach…
21.07.2021
ITMO Students Learn Academic English With The University of Arizona Lecturers
…to the small details that are hard to pick up for a non-native speaker. There are many such details: your sentence structure or punctuation, for instance. It was a really knowledge-intensive course, so we had to work a lot even though formally we only had one class a week. During the course, we had to complete a draft of a small academic article on one of the gen…
19.07.2021
Vatrushka: Delicious Tvorog Pastry With a Mysterious Past
…form that they might take without questioning the peculiarities of their origin. Vatrushka: the ritual past While we are here, though, it would be interesting to acknowledge that the more commonly-made vatrushka can be traced back to past superstitions and traditions. Its round shape made it the spitting image of the sun for ritualistic purposes – and it is be…
19.07.2021
Winners of the I am a Professional Contest Share Their Experience
…amming drones, so I bought myself one. I set it up in the dormitory and then let it fly to test controllers. I code a lot, but at the time I had little theoretical knowledge, so I prepared for the first stage by solving the previous year’s tasks and studying the theory behind them. My efforts paid off and I ended up with a good result. The second stage was abo…
16.07.2021
ITMO Hosts ITMO.KIDS Summer School
…is is far from the first school we’ve held. To us, these events have become an enjoyable summer tradition. I believe that working with kids pays off and in the future the knowledge they’ve acquired here will serve them well in their new endeavors. After all, we’re not only giving them practical skills such as knowing how to work with software or to engineer things, b…
15.07.2021