April 24, 2013, Skoltech Professor Edward Seidel gave a lecture ‘Science in Modern Society’ to more than 300 highschoolers from different Moscow schools in the concert hall of the Moscow City Palace for Youth Arts in Vorobyeviye Gory.
Professor Seidel’s lecture focused on showing science’s role in society and how it impacts everyday life. Through the lecture Seidel hoped to develop their passion for the sciences, to show why this matters for society, and to encourage the students to continue studying them. One of the main aspects in finding your mission in life is to ‘follow you passions’, as Professor Seidel put it, ‘but be aware of how what you do is connected to the world.’