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• Technology in Chemistry: Positive Effect of VR on Students’ Academic Performance

  Three years ago, ITMO University implemented a VR class for first-year students studying inorganic chemistry. As noted by the university's teachers and MEL Science developers, the immersive experience had a positive impact,  increasing students’ learning progress by 20%. The results of the experiment were published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

  26.07.2021

• Founder of MEL Science Vasily Filippov: Only Those Who Work Hard Are Successful

  “What do you think was the first chemical reaction in the world?”, it is with this curveball that Vasily Filippov, founder of MEL Science, a company which designs chemistry kits that help children make their first steps in science, opened his lecture at ITMO University’s SCAMT Laboratory. But this experiments-based venture is an experiment for Vasily himself: he embarked on this adventure after an impressive fifteen-year record of developing mobile apps. Daria Lampadova from Megabyte Media, a student media outlet powered by ITMO University, quizzed the entrepreneur on what prompted him to quit his successful career of a programmer and how he plans to revolutionize the approach to modern education. 

  18.10.2018

• SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education

  Chemistry, physics, biology - these are the subjects that most students study through rote learning; only  few  of them actually develop a meaningful understanding of the general concepts and processes. Still, the problem here is not that some do have the aptitude for learning natural sciences and some don’t; it is more about the educational approaches used at most schools and universities. Mikhail Kurushkin, a new lecturer at ITMO’s Research and Educational Center of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, believes that we can and must change them. Mr. Kurushkin has developed interactive educational methods that are based on games,  schematic  representation of information, active communication and VR technologies. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, he shared  about  his idea of a perfect educational process, and of how a proper approach to education can help master any field of science.

  14.03.2018

• ITMO and Mel Science Launch Affiliate Program for Kids

  Can a school student make a battery all by himself? How to grow chemical seaweed and jellyfish, and explain ionic replacement reactions to primary school students? ITMO University and the Mel Science company launch a new affiliate program that will teach kids chemistry in a way that is both enticing and safe. The children will get to work with chemical agents, explore many natural processes, and learn why chemical experiments are not only  spectacular,  but immensely interesting, as well. The program is feasible for children who are eight years old and older.

  06.03.2018