55 heads of Robotic Engineering Groups from Armenia’s provinces to be trained in Yerevan

YEREVAN, July 23. /ARKA/. A one-month retraining course was launched today at Mkhitar Sebastatsi education center in Yerevan for heads of robotic engineering groups.

This course will provide 55 heads of robotic engineering groups from Armenia’s provinces with skills necessary for teaching robotic engineering in schools.

They will be trained by leading specialists at National Instruments, Simotech and Instigate education center as part of the program “Robotics Starts from School”.

At the course-launching ceremony, an understanding memorandum was signed by VivaCell-MTS, the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE), the Armenian office of the World Vision International benevolent organization, Cronimet Charity Foundation, Counterpart International USAID Project, National Instruments companies, Simotech company and Instigate education center.
All the organizations wanting to join the program can sign the memorandum.

Karen Vardanyan, executive director of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) said that the aim of this memorandum is to attract children’s interest to high technologies, particularly to robotics as well as to develop engineering way of thinking in their minds and to send already high-quality motivated students to universities.

VivaCell-MTS CEO Ralph Yirikian, on his side, said that this cooperation will lay favorable groundwork for taking important steps to transform robotic engineering from hobby into profession.
“Robotics Starts from School” program, which is being implemented in cooperation with VivaCell-MTS, Cronimet Charity Foundation as well as World Vision Armenia and Counterpart International Armenia organizations, implies creation of 55 robotic engineering groups in Armenian schools.
The groups are expected to start their activities in September 2013. ---0----

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18:55 07/23/2013