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• How to Enter One of Russia’s Most Prestigious AI Programs: Tips from Two-Time NTO Winner

  NTO (National Technology Olympiad) offers school students from all over Russia a change to enter the country’s leading engineering universities, including ITMO, without exams. Among the students who used this opportunity is Konstantin Sigalov, a two-time winner of the track Big Data and Machine Learning and a first-year student at AI360: ML Native by ITMO, Yandex, and Sberbank. In this article, he shares his experience of participating in NTO, preparing for the competition, and winning. 

  12.03.2026

• First Time: ITMO Hosts Regional Round of Russian National School Student Contest in Three Subjects

  This year, ITMO hosted the regional rounds of the national school student contest in three subjects – computer science, physics, and ecology – for the first time. In total, the contest brought together about a thousand talented school students from St. Petersburg. The national contest is the biggest and most prestigious of its kind for school students; winners get the opportunity to enroll at the country’s leading universities without exams.

  10.02.2026

• The ITMO NEWS Guide to Student Math Competitions

  In February, the new season of student math contests will begin. These offer a great chance to test your skills, compete with like-minded students from all over the world, and get a diploma that can boost your chances to enter Master’s and PhD programs. We asked Igor Popov, a professor at ITMO’s Institute of Applied Mathematics and an organizer of student contests, what to expect in the next season and how to train for it. Read on for his best tips.

  05.02.2026

• I Am a Professional Season 9: All About Information and Cyber Security Track

  Medalists, winners, and diploma holders of the I Am a Professional Competition have the chance to receive up to 300,000 rubles, an opportunity to enter Russia’s top universities, or an internship at a major company. This year, ITMO curates several of the contest’s tracks, including Information and Cyber Security. Read on to learn more about the track and how to prepare for its tasks from Alexander Menshchikov, curator of the track and dean of ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies. The track’s general partner is Sberbank.

  09.10.2025

• Lectures, Projects, Robots: St. Petersburg Hosts Finals of I Am a Professional Contest

  The final stage of the national student competition I Am a Professional recently took place in St. Petersburg, bringing together participants from 10 Russian universities. The students presented their projects to a jury featuring experts from Sber, ITMO, Navio, Robowizard and StarLine – and visited the laboratories of the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics to acquaint themselves with new engineering solutions. 

  24.04.2025

• School Students From St. Petersburg Make History at FIRST Tech Challenge

  Sputnik Original, a team of school students from St. Petersburg, has come in third at FIRST Tech Challenge, an international robotics competition – and became the first Russian winners in the event’s history. 256 teams from the USA, Europe, South Africa, Canada, Australia, China, and other countries participated in the contest. The finals took place in Houston (USA).

  23.04.2025

• ITMO Students Succeed at Data Fusion Contest

  A team of ITMO students from the Artificial Intelligence Technologies Faculty made it into the top three of Data Fusion Contest, an international competition for data scientists organized by the IT holding company T1 in collaboration with VTB Bank. Over 1,500 participants from Russia, Australia, Germany, the USA, and other countries participated in the event. The winners were awarded at the Lomonosov cluster in Moscow as part of the conference Data Fusion 2025.

  22.04.2025

• NTO Finals: How School Students Deal With Real-World Tasks for Petrochemistry and Fintech

  The National Technology Olympiad (NTO) is more than a competition for school students; it’s a chance for them to work on industrial tasks, kickstart their careers by interning at major companies, and gain enrollment perks In April, ITMO University hosted the final stages of the competition’s two tracks: Infochemistry and Software Engineering in Fintech. Keep reading to learn what the 10th anniversary session of the olympiad was like.

  22.04.2025

• Competitive Programming, Scholarships, and New Programs: Why Competition Winners Apply to ITMO

  The Russian national competition (Vseros) for school students is one of the most challenging and prestigious academic contests in Russia. Its winners and runners-up can enter any of the country’s top universities, regardless of their Unified State Exam scores. Every year, the best performers of the national competition in programming choose ITMO. What opportunities attract them here? How do they train for the competition and how can this knowledge help in real life? Read on for answers from Vseros winners now studying at ITMO.

  02.04.2025

• Next Stop – Houston: School Students from St. Petersburg Win FIRST Tech Challenge Championship

  Sputnik Original, a team of school students from St. Petersburg, reigned supreme at last month's international robotics competition FIRST Tech Challenge Championship in Italy. They outperformed more than 40 teams from 13 countries, becoming the event’s absolute winners. The team trains at Lyceum No. 244, where they are mentored by university students, including Master’s students from ITMO who once graduated from the school and have now returned to teach supplementary courses. What awaits the team next? The world finals in Houston (USA) in late April. ITMO NEWS got to talk to the team and now shares their story. 

  21.03.2025