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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 19-20, 2021

  …) For those sharing Ross Geller’s love for prehistoric life and not only, we present a one-of-a-kind exhibition featuring ancient stone artifacts. This is a place where history is presented in a brand new light: here, a magnificent dagger from Denmark finds itself enveloped in an ominous fog or an arrowhead is frozen in time. With carefully selected music and li…

  16.06.2021

• Startup Connect: International Schools, Business Competitions, and Russian-Finnish Accelerators

  …ent to Mishka AI, a project proposed by a company in Moscow.  “This is a kid’s best friend that can teach them how to brush their teeth and put them in bed with a bedtime story,” explains Igor Kuprienko. The winners attended Web Summit, the world's premier tech conference, where they had the opportunity to compete with 70 best startup projects. PM-Sc…

  15.06.2021

• ITMO Students Create Projects for the Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum-Apartment

  …like that anymore. Modern museums implement VR technologies, video installations, motion sensors, and AR systems. The demand for such approaches to representation of art and history continues to grow. You need two kinds of specialists to create such projects: museum specialists and engineers. ITMO University’s Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Syste…

  11.06.2021

• Pocket Museum: Must-Have Apps for Art Lovers

  …bjects using the built-in QR scanner create your own audio tours Smartify (Android, iOS) If you’ve ever come across an eye-catching painting and wondered about its history, your prayers have finally been answered. There is now a Shazam for art! The Smartify app, with its extensive database of artwork and descriptions, allows you to scan any artwork or objec…

  11.06.2021

• ITMO.EduLeaders Winners: Ekaterina Tyurikova on Her Career Path and Modern Teaching

  …mputer games! I have a Sega, X-box, PlayStation 4, Nintendo, and a gaming laptop. I enjoy a compelling character’s motivation, captivating game mechanics, or an unconventional storyline. We can learn a lot from video games and even apply them in teaching.  What do you mean? There are platform games – for example, Super Mario – where characters can only go right…

  10.06.2021

• Student Spotlight: Lasse Schneider, Germany

  …also like to travel a lot. Do you work? I volunteer at the DRB (the German-Russian Center). The DRB offers German courses and hosts events related to Germany or German history and language in St. Petersburg. For example, once a month we have a speaking club where we talk about a certain topic in German. In addition, I also write articles for ITMO’s blog. Do …

  10.06.2021

• First-Ever “Quantum Call” Between Moscow and St. Petersburg Conducted

  …ady been provided with the necessary funding.”   “It has taken less than a year to implement this pilot project, and today we’re turning a new page in the nation’s history. The pilot section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg quantum communications network is complete – that is, no doubt, a true breakthrough in Russian telecommunications field. And that’s just th…

  08.06.2021

• ITMO Graduates on Their Research in Digital Humanities

  …searching Estonian Gulag literature – a genre that describes an author’s experience of being a prisoner in a Gulag camp. Now, at ITMO University, I decided to create a digital storytelling project out of it: instead of lengthy papers, I have compiled brief descriptions of certain events discussed in those books, as well as commentary on the author’s stylistic feature…

  08.06.2021

• Summer Decluttering: Clothes Edition

  …ou can always ask the employees for help. While major retailers are only now stepping into in-store recycling initiatives, second-hand stores and flea markets have a long history. For a token price, you can sell lots of items like clothes or accessories at flea markets and garage sales (Garage Sale Spb) or give your clothes a second life at one of the city’s numer…

  04.06.2021

• Song of the Month: May 2021

  …es: one of my favorite creators, dodie, released her debut album on May 7. It has easily been the thing I’ve listened to the most ever since. The whole album is one continuous story (perfectly told in this series of lyric videos), but two particular earworms of mine are Before the Line and Special Girl. The first one is rather gloomy and self-reflective, so I will sh…

  28.05.2021