The personality development of adolescents with increased cognitive needs in university boarding schools has its own specifics. The formation of gymnasium identity occurs through the appropriation of social roles, norms, the formation of relationships, which determines the appearance of the integrity of goals, motives, life meanings and self-awareness of the individual. The condition for the formation of identity is what communities, activities, cultural practices a teenager is included in. The event environment is a tool for the formation of personal and social identity in the educational child-adult community.