Admission Campaign 2012/2014 Report
Ad-hoc education and research program
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Program Announcement Information Distribution Application Process Interviews and Additional Test Tasks Final Selection Feedback Meeting Admission Statistics Authors Attachments
TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 1. Gender distribution (percentage) Figure 2. Distribution between Higher Education Institutions (persons) Figure 3. Distribution of applicants’ background (persons) Figure 4. Applicants’ current status: studying or employed (percentage) Figure 5. Distribution of applicants’ mail services (percentage) Figure 6. Distribution of applicants’ social network profiles (percentage) Figure 7. GameChangers 2012/2014: gender distribution (percentage) Figure 8. GameChangers 2012/2014: universities and specialties (persons)
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Introduction The admission campaign to the GameChangers program 2012/2014 (further – the Program) took place from July till September 2012. It has been conducted in several steps:
1. Program announcement in the Internet (July-September, 2012). 2. Information distribution through partner, academia and community networks (JulySeptember, 2012). 3. On-line application process and further application assessment (July, 6 – September, 14, 2012). 4. Interviews and additional test tasks (September 5-21, 2012). 5. Final selection (September 21, 2012). 6. Feedback meeting (September 23, 2012).
Program Announcement In order to reach potential students, the Program has been widely announced in the Internet via:
Program’s official web page (www.gamechangers.ru/join);
Vkontakte group (vkontakte.ru/gamechangers);
Facebook page (facebook.com/GameChangersRussia);
Twitter account (@GameChangersRu);
Media sources and Information Partners (Habrahabr, Startuppoint, etc);
University channels (University ITMO, SPbSU, GSOM at SPbSU, etc.);
Communities and incubators web-sites (e.g. Project “HomeWork”, “Ingria”, etc.);
On-site presentations at Universities (LETI, Herzen University, SPbSU Biology Faculty, SPbSUEE).
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Detailed list of sources can be found in the Attachment 1. The total number of publications in media, including Universities, communities and social networks is 40. Several announcements examples can be seen at the Picture 1 (Ingria, University ITMO, CS club, SPSU Law Faculty).
Picture 1. Several examples of announcements screenshots
Information Distribution Information send-outs have been distributed through Institutions, Academic and Corporate Partners. The total amount of mailing lists was 19 (see the table in the Attachment 2). Amongst all, admission was announced in the GameChangers Google group (Picture 2).
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Game|Changers Admission Campaign Report Picture 2. GameChangers: It Industry Google Group announcement
In addition, the Program’s poster has been produced and distributed in main Universities and partner organizations, 83 in total (Picture 3). The full size poster is available here (PDF, 468 K).
Picture 3. Program poster and the poster on the information board at SPbSU
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Application Process Application period lasted for two and a half months. Each applicant had to fill in an online registration form with open questions about their biography, achievements and expectations from the course as well as related to the IT industry. The form included the following fields:
Name, contact details, social network profile;
Short bio and achievements;
Your expectations from the course;
What IT trends do you see?
What areas/industries do you consider the most promising for IT introduction?
Name a success story in IT you like and/or IT person (scientist, engineer, business person) you admire;
Which of your knowledge, skills and abilities can be useful to make the course better?
Link to your term work, project report or publication that highlights your experience in writing/analysis/design /etc. (optional);
Recommend a person who can be a promising candidate or an expert (optional).
The Program received 125 valid applications in total. They were evaluated independently by Program’s curators and representatives of partner organizations. The most questionable entries were discussed in a team.
The candidates were assessed according to several criteria:
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General and social intelligence
Pro-activity and vision
Current background and further potential
Motivation
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Game|Changers Admission Campaign Report Admission team included:
Sergey Dmitriev, Program Director
Ivan But, Program Coordinator
Ekaterina Chaykina, Admission Coordinator
Nikolay Vyahhi, Biotechnology Track Curator
Mikhail Vink, International Relations Coordinator
Alexandra Shishova, Research Coordinator
Vladimir Aluferov, Business Analyst at Exigen Services
Pavel Votchintsev, Academic Program Coordinator at University ITMO
Alexey Knorre, GameChangers 2010/2011 graduate
Alexander Kim, GameChangers 2011/2012 graduate
Interviews and Additional Test Tasks 63 face-to-face interviews have been conducted with authors of the most interesting applications. Interview process took 10 days and included 59 initial and four additional meetings (one was conducted over Skype). Each interview lasted for one and a half hour and consisted of three stages:
Test (30 min., 5 open questions in English);
Conversation with another candidate (30 min., no language requirements);
Interview with the Program’s committee (30 min., in a form of an open conversation in both English and Russian).
Furthermore, a number of additional home tasks were given in order to better assess abilities and potential of several candidates. They were developed according to the Program’s focus and candidate’s background, expertise and interests. Subsequently, these tasks were evaluated by Program’s curators and representatives of partner organizations. In addition, provided examples of the coursework, presentations, CVs and other results of the student’s activity were taken into account. Picture 4 illustrates the interview process. Interviews were held in the offices of partner organizations: EMC2, Business Incubator QD, i-Free and AU RAS.
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Picture 4. Interviews at EMC2 (1, 2), QD (3), Skype interview at AU RAS (4)
Additional tasks have been also given to students whose applications were considered average, but revealed potential. They were offered to choose a year and creatively describe major event in the IT industry that occurred over this period. Authors of the best texts (both content and presentation of the results was taken into account) were invited to an interview.
Final Selection The goal of the selection process was to identify the most valuable students with high potential. The candidate’s image constituted from his or her general understanding of the IT industry and its trends, ability to acquire information and learn, level of English, entrepreneurial or/and
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Game|Changers Admission Campaign Report analytical mindset, and motivation for the course and for the IT industry in general. In addition, the Program aimed at composing an interdisciplinary and diverse group.
Firstly, the short list of 38 applicants was created (Attachment 3). Eventually, admission team selected 25 students of the core group. Students were notified by e-mail on 22nd of September. The first organizational group meeting took place on 23rd of September at the 2Nova Interactive office. The final list of students enrolled to the Program 2012/2014 is available in the Attachment 4.
Feedback Meeting On Sunday, 23nd of September the feedback meeting “FeedBack Party� was organized for applicants who had not been accepted to the Program. During the three hour meeting, around 30 candidates received detailed comments on their applications and interviews as well as suggestions and advice for their future endeavors (Picture 5). They had also an opportunity to provide valuable feedback to the Program team on the application process. Students admitted to the Program could also participate.
Picture 5. GameChangers team and students at the Feedback party
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Admission Statistics Total number of received applications is 126, among them 125 were valid. 57% of all candidates were male, and 43% - female. Figure 1. Gender distribution (percentage)
Male
43% 57%
Female
106 candidates (85%) have provided information about their education (Figure 2). The main universities represented were: St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU), and separately Graduate School of Management (GSOM) within SPbSU, National Research University ITMO (University ITMO), St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (LETI), St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University (SPbSPU) and Higher School of Economics (HSE). Many other Universities were indicated, but they demonstrated fairly low activity (only 1 or 2 applications from each of them). Figure 2. Distribution between Higher Education Institutions (persons) SPbSU
3
University ITMO
17 34
SPbSU GSOM
4
LETI
9
SPbSPU HSE 9
Other in Russia
10
10
20
Other abroad
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Game|Changers Admission Campaign Report Most of candidates have Programming & Computer Science (30%) and Economics, Finance & Management as their background (21%). The rest of them have different majors, as can be seen from the Figure 3.
Figure 3. Distribution of applicants’ background (persons) Programming & CS
11 3 3 4
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2
Economics, Finance & Management
2
Applied Math
34
Physics Social & Political Science Engineering Entrepreneurship
6
Law Journalism & Publishing
7
Design
7
Linguistics
23 7
Biology Other
119 candidates (95%) indicated their current status: as of application period, 58% of them were students (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Applicants’ current status: student or graduate (percentage)
Student
42%
Graduate
58%
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124 persons provided their e-mail address. Figure 5 demonstrates that Gmail holds the position of the most popular mail service (72 persons, 58%). The next closest – mail.ru – use 18 applicants (15%).
Figure 5. Distribution of applicants’ mail services (percentage)
Personal domain Yahoo Hotmail Rambler University/work… Other Yandex Mail.ru Gmail 0%
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80%
65 out of 95 (68%) candidates indicated Vkontakte as their social networking tool (Figure 6). The next popular were Facebook (24%) and LinkedIn (8%). Figure 6. Distribution of applicants’ social network profiles (percentage) Twitter Google+ Blogs Linkedin Facebook Vkontakte 0%
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Final Group: Statistics GameChangers 2012/2014 intake consists of 25 students. The gender distribution in the final group is depicted in Figure 7.
Figure 7. GameChangers 2012/2014: gender distribution (percentage)
Male
44%
Female
56%
The majority of this year students came from SPbSU (10 persons, 38%) and University ITMO (7 persons, 29%). The leading specialty is IT&CS (10 persons, 42%). The complete distribution can be seen in Figure 8. Figure 8. GameChangers 2012/2014: universities and specialties (persons)
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SPbSU
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University ITMO
10
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ELTECH
2
SPSPU
2
Herzen University
7
Finek Law Academy
1
IT & CS
1 1
Economics & Management
10
Journalism & Publishing Biology Philology & Linguistics PR
3
4
Sociology Engineering Law
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Authors Report prepared by Ekaterina Chaykina, Admission Coordinator. Statistics prepared by Ekaterina Chaykina and Alexey Knorre. Design: Sergey Karashevich. Editors: Ivan But, Program Coordinator; Sergey Dmitriev, Program Director.
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Attachments Attachment 1. List of the sources (Media, Communities and Universities) MEDIA # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
date 06,07 06,07 60,07 03,07 28,08 28,08 21,08 28,08 19,07 21,08 03,09 04,09 31,08 25,08 04,09 19,07 21,08 19,07 10,09
media VKontake (VK) Facebook Twitter HabraHabr Ingria news CS Club Startuppoint HackDay VK FRUCT VK QD VK T&P PaperPaper HSE{Inc} Leprosorium.ru Project 'HomeWork' (VK) Zona Deistviya (VK) LiveJournal Entrepreneurs Club VK Ponedelnik (paper)
in charge Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Dmitriev Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Vink Dmitriev Chaykina Dmitriev Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Dmitriev
contact in media ----Denis Gavrilov Alexander Kulikov Ekaterina Chaykina Mikhail Kulakov Ekaterina Chaykina Maria Buriak Elena Ilina Anna Kosinskaya Natalia Fedotova Vladimir Aluferov Sergey Dmitriev Lifshits Yury Alexey Knorre Ivan Belyaev Alexandr Matros
status published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published
links http://vk.com/wall-28619052_108; http://vk.com/wall-28619052_141 https://www.facebook.com/GameChangersRussia https://twitter.com/GameChangersRu/status/237914404203671552 http://habrahabr.ru/post/150721/ http://ingria-startup.ru http://compsciclub.ru/node/2033 http://startuppoint.ru/blog/public/38433.html http://vk.com/wall-12739279_315 http://vk.com/wall-1574365_643 http://vk.com/qdincubator?; http://vk.com/qdincubator? the link is not unavailable http://paperpaper.ru/gamechangers/ http://inc.hse.ru/article/2012/09/07/_2252.htm http://spb.leprosorium.ru/comments/1128595 http://vk.com/wall-27626609_538 http://vk.com/wall-34543568_1189 http://kilex.livejournal.com/69774.html http://vk.com/wall-19885516_982 link
COMMUNITIES AND UNIVERSITIES # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
date 03,09 03,09 04,09 04,09 03,09 03,09 28,08 21,08 31,08 21,08 31,08 01,09 27,08 19,07 02,09 27,08 19,07 17,08 19,07 17,08 17,08
media BEST VK Engenering Competition VK IFMO en news site IFMO ru news site Herzen University SPBSU of Telecommunications HSE social media Sociology Fac VK group SPSU Law department Engecon VK IEEE RNW SB LETI Profyrost.ru Community NEXT, VK G|C 2011 group Bioinf courses AU FabLabs LETI, VK IFMO, VK Polytech, VK Polytech FTC, VK Math-Mech, VK
in charge Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Dmitriev, Chaykina Chaykina Vink Dmitriev Dmitriev Chaykina Chaykina Dmitriev Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina
contact Igor Asonov Igo Asonov Rybin Andrew, Fedor Tsarev Fedor Tsarev Anastasya Semenova Maxim Arzumanyan Tatiana Chernova Alexey Knorre Elena Kilinkarova Dmitry Fedorov Mikhail Vink Tatiana Sueva Elnara Petrova -Nikolay Vyahhi Dmitry Spivak ------
status published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published published
links http://vk.com/wall-3558335_754 http://vk.com/wall-7629564_398 http://en.ifmo.ru/index.php? http://www.ifmo.ru/ http://dekanat.fit-herzen.ru/ http://www.fem-sut.spb.ru/news/464------gamechangers vk.com/1; vk.com/2; vk.com/3; vk.com/4 http://vk.com/wall-11007759_7257 http://law.spbu.ru/Home.aspx http://vk.com/wall-24078113_305 link1; link2; link3 http://vk.com/wall-40225209_144 http://vk.com/wall-6386_32375 http://vk.com/wall-30868784_65 http://vk.com/wall-29354345_32 http://vk.com/wall-41101320_19 http://vk.com/ http://vk.com/topic-94_26778090 http://vk.com/topic-1061_26766054 http://vk.com/topic-82_27405240 http://vk.com/topic-171_26765897
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Attachment 2. Mailing lists # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
date 28,08 28,08 21,08 29,08 31,08 29,08 20,07 21,08 28,08 23,08 04,09 04,09 28,08 21,08 28,08 29,08 31,08 31,08 27,08
media Ingria send out HackDay send out QD send out RIS Ventures send out HSE{Inc} send out CFE send out IT Industry mailing list BEST send out AIESEC send out EU mailing list GSOM Career Center GSOM IT department HSE- mailing list Engecon VT mailing list LETI econom fac IMOP IEM send out IEEE RNW SB LETI NewsLetter AINL conference contacts GameChangers pre-application
in charge Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina But But Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Chaykina Vink Vink Chaykina
contact person Denis Gavrilov Evgeniya Ovchinnikova, Mikhail Kulakov Maria Buriak Dilyara Inogamova, Sergey Buzko Anna Moiseeva Yana Polyakova Ekaterina Chaykina Igor Asonov Ksenia Strelnikova Anna Chernysh Irina Solovieva Tatiana Gavrilova Tatiana Chernova Dmitry Fedorov Anna Kouzmina Elena Borshevskaya Mikhail Vink Mikhail Vink Ekaterina Chaykina
Attachment 3. Shortlisted candidates # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Candidates considered Anashkina Anna Artemenko Kirill Asadulina Dinara Badmarinchinova Ayuna Banschikov Dmitry Belikov Iurii Chistyakov Philipp Efremova Elena Fedorchenko Kristina Grigoryev Aleksei Ivanov Maksim Kazakov Vladislav Kazmenkov Gleb Konovalov Sergey Kosinskaya Anna Lioznova Anna Magdieva Raisa Makunin Alexey Margarita Kasabutckaia Musatkin Roman Nayden Alexey Petrova Ksenia Pogibelev Aleksey Potanina Anna Prisivko Vyacheslav Pritykovskaya Natalia Provorova Anna
Education SPbSU, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science SPbSU, Journalism SPbSU Philology SPbSU, Linguistics University ITMO University ITMO SPbSU, Political Science PhD SPbSU, Mathematics and Informatics SPbSU, Journalism University ITMOBIT European University at SPb, Economics High School of Economics at SPB LETI Finek (Novgorod), International Entrepreneurship (Lappeenranta) SPbSPU, Publishing and editing + Translation University ITMO University ITMO SPbSU, Biology SPbSU, Sociology University ITMO SPbSU, Math-Mech LETI KRYLOV CNII SPbSU IR -> GSOM SPbSPU, Physics and Mechanics + GSOM SPbSU Math-Mech SPbSU, Applied Mathematics and Control Processes
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Candidates considered
Education
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Rotar Vadim Sartasov Stanislav Semenova Anastasia Sergeev Victor Spetsnadel Ekaterina Starovoitova Elizaveta Tritenko Yulia Vagina Ekaterina Yurlova Anastasia Zaikina Ekaterina
GSOM at SPbSU SPbSU Math-Mech Herzen University, IT in Education SPSU, Economics SPbSTU, IT; University of East Anglia SPbSU, GSOM Law Academy SPbSPU, FTC + SPbSU, Economics SPbSU, Master of Psychology University ITMO
Attachment 4. Final group, GameChangers 2012/2014 students # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Full Name Anna Anashkina Kirill Artemenko Dinara Asadulina Ayuna Badmarinchinova Dmitry Banschikov Iurii Belikov Kristina Fedorchenko Aleksei Grigoryev Margarita Kasabutckaia Gleb Kazmenkov Sergey Konovalov Anna Kosinskaya Anna Lioznova Raisa Magdieva Alexey Makunin Roman Musatkin Ksenia Petrova Aleksey Pogibelev Potanina Anna Vadim Rotar Anastasia Semenova Victor Sergeev Yulia Tritenko Ekaterina Vagina Ekaterina Zaikina
University SPbSU Faculty of Biology and Soil Science SPbSU, Faculty of Journalism / IFMO MTE SPbSU, Philology SPbSU, Linguistics University ITMO University ITMO SPbSU, Faculty of Journalism University ITMO, BIT SPbSU, Sociology ELTECH, ComputerScience Finek Novgorod, Lappeenrannan Yiopisto Finland SPbSPU, Publishing and Editing/Translation University ITMO University ITMO SPbSU, Biology University ITMO ELTECH KRYLOV CNII SPbSU, GSOM SPbSU, GSOM Herzen University, IT in Education SPbSU, Economics Law Academy SPbSPU FTC / SPbSU, Economics University ITMO