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• 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

• 100+ Participants of Winter Engineering School Get to Enroll in ITMO Master’s Programs Exam-Free

  The Winter Engineering School has concluded at ITMO. Its students learned about the latest engineering innovations and expanded their knowledge of optics, light-guided photonics, fiber-optic sensorics, programmable electronics, patent law, and the oil-and-gas industry – but most importantly, they competed for the opportunity to enroll in Master’s programs at ITMO without taking entrance exams.

  21.03.2025

• Spring Opportunities: How to Enroll at ITMO Without Exams

  You don’t need to take exams to get into the Master’s program of your dreams when there are competitions and schools that can get you in, too. Read on to discover a plethora of opportunities you can use this spring to enter ITMO’s Master’s programs without entrance exams.

  28.02.2025

• ITMO Prepares St. Petersburg School Students for Physics and Computer Science Contests

  ITMO and Talent Academy, a St. Petersburg-based educational institute, have recently organized an intensive course to assist the city's school students as they prepare for competitions in physics and computer science. Among the course’s experts were ITMO lecturers and winners of previous years, while the program included a detailed breakdown of the tasks, as well as popular science talks and workshops. Participation was free for all; students had to pass an in-person test to secure their place in one of the course’s two tracks.

  24.02.2025