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25 January 2021, 16:08UTC+340420

Guess the Top Student

Here at ITMO University, we’ve got thousands of talented students who win international competitions, excel as volunteers, showcase their creativity, and even pilot race cars. For Student’s Day, we’ve picked three of our top students and captured their likeness in a series of riddles alongside the protagonists of some classic movies about school and university life. Scroll through the slideshow below, read the clues, and try to guess the movies and the students!

Illustrations by Dmitry Lisovsky for ITMO.NEWS

What does a 20-year old prodigy from Boston have in common with an ITMO PhD student who’s already managed to win every prestigious programming contest in existence – from ICPC to Google Code Jam? Of course, the ability to crack even the toughest problems.
What does a 20-year old prodigy from Boston have in common with an ITMO PhD student who’s already managed to win every prestigious programming contest in existence – from ICPC to Google Code Jam? Of course, the ability to crack even the toughest problems.
The 17-year-old on the left owns a sports car that was manufactured in Northern Ireland by a famous American automotive company from 1981 till 1983 and can travel through time. The ITMO student on the right has an equally fast car, adorned with his alma mater’s logo, and the 1st place medal from the FIA Motorsport Games – the Olympics of car racing.
The 17-year-old on the left owns a sports car that was manufactured in Northern Ireland by a famous American automotive company from 1981 till 1983 and can travel through time. The ITMO student on the right has an equally fast car, adorned with his alma mater’s logo, and the 1st place medal from the FIA Motorsport Games – the Olympics of car racing.
Cafeteria, breakfast time… peep the background. Ring any bells? ITMO students, too, have clubs where they can get creative, partake in sports, or build robots. Our prolific student, meanwhile, is not only a winner of robotics competitions, but also a star of the Quantum Potential science stand-up show.
Cafeteria, breakfast time… peep the background. Ring any bells? ITMO students, too, have clubs where they can get creative, partake in sports, or build robots. Our prolific student, meanwhile, is not only a winner of robotics competitions, but also a star of the Quantum Potential science stand-up show.

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