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• Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Courage

  …e.”  What the Germans didn’t count on was that the citizens of Leningrad would not give up. They’d rather die than give up. They would bury artwork, plant vegetables in the Summer Gardens, evacuate children in trucks across the frozen Lake Ladoga, survive on boiling leather belts and making pancakes out of weeds, hold nightly watches to put out fire grenades and w…

  27.01.2020

• Mahdi Akhlaqi: The Attitude We Have Towards Ourselves Makes Us Who We Are And Who We Will Be

  …Hermitage Museum, the second-largest art museum in the world, and Peterhof, which is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is absolutely unmissable, especially in the summer, when the park's incredible collection of fountains is in operation. Without a doubt, it was one of the nicest places that I've ever visited in my life. Everything was eye-catching there…

  23.01.2020

• ITMO’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev: Science Can’t Be Measured in Square Meters

  …he space under its operational administration.      Where are the researchers from the ChemBio cluster whose labs got affected during the accident located now? Over the summer, we managed to find a number of ITMO’s own facilities and adapt them for chemical research. Unfortunately, the university was able to provide only around 1000 m² and there was no more sp…

  21.01.2020

• ITMO Graduate Elena Ushakova on Scientific Career, Research Projects and Working in Hong Kong

  …ng as a visiting lecturer. I accepted this offer, and now will be teaching students in Hong Kong and doing research work at CityU’s Centre for Functional Photonics (CFP) until summer 2020. In what way is CityU different from ITMO University?  At CityU, there is a very good support system for lecturers. On the one hand, they require their lecturers to do much mo…

  21.01.2020

• ITMO.KIDS: A Technopark for Children

  …n the early years of their lives, and therefore study and develop better. The core formats offered by ITMO.KIDS are courses (from 3 to 15 lessons), workshops, lectures, and summer schools. The courses are aimed at school students of second to eighth grades; each goes with a description that includes the age of students that can participate. As today’s students …

  17.01.2020

• Geek Teachers: ITMO University Graduate’s Project for Training School Teachers in New Technologies

  …vals more interesting. This would allow us to create a country-wide Geek Teachers community of our followers and ambassadors.  Another aspect is our Class Revamp show. This summer, my colleague and I visited different Russian cities and renovated lots of classrooms, which were chosen on a competitive basis. We documented the whole process on camera and uploaded it…

  16.01.2020

• Wikipedia Is Not an Ivory Tower: ITMO Graduate On Working For The ‘Net’s Greatest Encyclopedia

  … job presenting them. What’s the point in doing it again? I would rather ask the teachers how come their students cannot tell a good article from a bad one. I was invited to a summer school in Kazan to give a lecture on this exact topic. Wikimedia Armenia is a great example of classes on how to use Wikipedia for teachers. Over the holidays, they show teachers the man…

  15.01.2020

• Medical Journalist Elizaveta Babitskaya on Being an Informed Patient in Russia

  … colleagues. But later in the course of the studies, I realized that this specialization wasn’t exactly my thing.  At the end of the first year of my Master’s, I got into a summer school where I met Dmitry Malkov (co-founder of the Association of Communicators in Education and Science (AKSON), analyst at ITMO’s Center for Science Communication – Ed. note). He spok…

  13.01.2020

• 5 Healthy Habits for the New Year

  …ook on the brighter side? From starting to keep a daily gratitude journal to focusing on self-care and practicing positive self-talk, there are many ways to reach towards this summit; here’s our guide. Whatever you do, though, beware of the so-called toxic positivity of imperative “just be happy!” and “you can do it!”: this is not only ineffective but can also cause …

  10.01.2020

• ITMO Student Became the Youngest Winner of Young Runet Leaders Award

  …, such as bars, restaurants, hotels, etc. But the idea is not ours, we are just responsible for its technical part. Whose idea is this? In August, I took part in the SummIT project at ITMO University, where I presented a platform for application development, but the jury didn’t really like it and we didn’t develop it further. However, the good thing about t…

  09.01.2020