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Russian Public Opinion Research Center (RPORC) reported the results of the 10th annual competition of student works for 2017-2018 study year. This year's competition was devoted to the topic "SOCIOLOGY IN DIGITAL AND DIGITAL IN SOCIOLOGY".

Student’s organization called Russian Hackers opened the branch in St. Petersburg. 3^rd year students of Sociology Anya Bataeva and Olya Silyutina became representatives of the Russian Hackers in St. Petersburg. In early March, they held the first presentation, where they talked about what the organization is doing; they also destroyed the myth of the complexity of participation in the Hackathon and shared their experience.

The upgraded program "Sociology and Social Informatics" has been enrolling students from different cities of Russia and other countries for two years. Every year it is becoming more and more popular. We decided to ask students from the 1^st and the 2^nd courses what exactly influenced their choice of this program. Let’s have a look at some of their answers!

On February 24th, the annual competition "Mister and Miss Sociology" was held at the NRU HSE on Griboyedov Canal, which took place in the format of the show "Vecherniy Sociologist". 5 pairs of students from the first course competed among themselves for the right to represent our educational program at the interfaculty level. Here we will tell you how the contest was held, and who won the title "Mister and Miss Sociology 2018".

On February 9, HSE University – St. Petersburg opened its doors to students of the Higher School of Equality, an organization originally established on the Moscow campus. Ekaterina Guzieva, member of the Free Edition, who attended opening ceremony, explains what Higher School of Equality will do in St. Petersburg and why it should be attended by everyone who wants to engage in the scientific issues of gender equality and equity.

It is known that students-sociologists not for the first time show themselves as leaders of the organizations of HSE. We talked to the third-year student Arina Revyakina and found out what she had done on the way to such a high position of the head of SDS.

Marica Sharashenidze is a young researcher from the USA. She was an associate at HSE Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science in 2016/2017 academic year.  In the spring of 2016, she graduated from Rice University in Houston (Texas) with a bachelor's degree. While still a student of the last year, she wrote to professor Alexandrov, Director of Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science, that she would like to come and do her research project in the Laboratory. From September 2016 to July 2017 Marika lived in St. Petersburg and studied migrant children in St. Petersburg schools. We talked to Marika about her research and how she spent this year in Russia.

Cybersport is a developing sport in Russia. We talked with one of the creators of HSE SPb Cyber Club-sociology student Ilya Gorets and learned how he embodied dreams into reality and how he sees the future of the club.