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• ITMO Team Wins RoboCup Asia Pacific 2025

  The team of ITMO’s Youth Robotics Lab became the winner of the international RoboCup Asia Pacific 2025. Their robotic saxophonist Fantastic Robby Brown was named best in the creative category RCJ OnStage Secondary. This year’s contest took place in Abu Dhabi and drew over 700 participants from 20 countries.

  17.11.2025

• ITMO and IT Lyceum to Promote AI Education in St. Petersburg

  Recently, St. Petersburg’s first IT-focused lyceum, which opened its doors this September, hosted an ITMO Day. The university held science shows, games, and career guidance lectures. Now, the strategic partnership between the university and the lyceum has been stapled in an agreement: with support from ITMO University, AI will be introduced into the lyceum’s educational process. The lyceum’s teachers are already taking professional development courses at ITMO.

  17.10.2025

• Scientific Show, Lectures, and Lab Tours: Recap of Physics Day 2025 at ITMO

  On September 21, ITMO University hosted an annual scientific and educational event for school students, their parents, and teachers in celebration of Russia’s Physics Day. The festival took place at two ITMO campuses and drew over 700 participants. Here are the highlights.

  23.09.2025

• ITMO-Trained Team Brings Home Four Medals from IOI 2025

  A team of Russian school students secured four medals at the 37th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Bolivia. The competition welcomed contestants from 87 countries. The Russian team was coached by Andrey Stankevich, the dean of ITMO’s Information Technologies and Programming Faculty.

  05.08.2025

• Math for Business & Life: St. Petersburg Hosts Its First Large Mathematical Workshop

  Aimed to create a nationwide network of mathematical centers, the Large Mathematical Workshop brings together school and university students, mathematics teachers, and experts from all over Russia. This year, the project took place in St. Petersburg – at ITMO University – for the first time and attracted over 50 people from ten Russian cities. Participants worked on cases inspired by real-world research and business tasks.

  29.07.2025

• 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

• 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

• Cube Laboratories for Bacteria and Cell Experiments To Appear in Russian Schools

  ITMO University and the research and manufacturing association Prolab will design and set up mobile cube-shaped laboratories in Russian schools where high school students will learn to operate equipment and conduct experiments. Their findings should prove helpful in discovering new molecules and materials for next-gen cryoprotectants and regenerative medicine, as well as in preventing oil and gas pollution. Such cubes are already operating in two schools in Yekaterinburg, with one currently under construction at the Gazprom School in St. Petersburg, and five more scheduled to open in Moscow and St. Petersburg by 2025.

  04.12.2024

• ITMO and St. Petersburg School Launch Nanotechnologies Lab

  Lyceum No. 150 in the Kalininsky District of St. Petersburg is now home to the new Nanotechnologies Laboratory, launched in collaboration with ITMO’s International Laboratory “Hybrid Nanostructures for Biomedicine.” At the lab, senior students will have advanced classes in physics, chemistry, and biology, learning to synthesize several types of nanoparticles. Students will then present their work at a summer school at ITMO, with members of the best teams gaining an additional five points to their Unified State Exam scores when applying to the university.

  18.09.2024

• How To Get into Science as a School Student

  ITMO allows students to begin their journey into science as early as high school, for example, with a year-long internship at its Faculty of Physics. Interns work in laboratories with expert scientists, conduct independent research, receive awards, and excel at competitions. For this article, we asked Anna Chuprina, a former intern who has already won an international scientific conference and is enrolled at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, to share her experience and talk about the opportunities the internship offers.

  05.06.2024