Last weekend, the first Skoltech What?! science festival was held on campus.

The festival program attracted about 600 participants to Skoltech. During the day, lectures about the Sun, artificial intelligence, the brain and schizophrenia, dialogues in an electric bus, excursions about the secret life of plants took place on the campus. Skoltech showcased robots, microsatellites, and through a telescope one could see spots on the Sun. For the young participants, scientists and partners of the festival held master classes on DNA extraction, rocket construction and mail research. An interactive game on the theme of innovation was a success. 

The participants of the festival not only got acquainted with the scientific achievements of Skoltech and the life of the university, but also took part in a unique architectural tour on how the campus building is arranged, learned what lies behind modern art objects and immersed themselves in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov— one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. 

The main event of the festival was conversations for life with bioinformatician, Full Professor Mikhail Gelfand. 

The partners of the festival were the AST publishing house, which presented new books and books authored by Skoltech scientists at the festival, as well as the Moscow Department of Transport, together with which a unique discussion was organized in the electric bus.