Over 40 students receive presidential awards in Armenia’s IT

YEREVAN, October 17./ARKA/. Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan handed president’s education awards in IT to high and higher school students on Wednesday.

A total of 42 students received presidential awards in IT this year, according to the report.

The awards reveals and promotes best technical students to direct them to IT entrepreneurship, head of Synopsys Armenia Hovik Musaelyan said at the ceremony.

The jury had a unique opportunity to see the trends available in Armenia’s IT education, Musaelyan said.

 

Musaelyan pointed to the excellent results by high school students in particular. He appreciated the fact than most of the students who want to study overseas plan to come back home afterwards.

“More and more young people pick IT sector as a future profession, which is very important to us”, Musaleyan said.

The tenth annual competition for presidential awards was held in June this year.

In April 2005, Synopsys Armenia and Hayastan All-Armenian Foundation signed an agreement about annual education awards of Armenia’s president to best IT students. Some 322 high and higher school students were awarded over the last nine years. The awards funding is provided by Synopsys Armenia.

Each educational institutional proposes 10 applicants for each of the nominations – the main award, best 

Post-graduate (I and II class), best master (I and II class), best bachelor (I and II class), best student from the Diaspora, best female student and best pupil (high school student). 

A special committee interviews the first stage leaders in June and determines the finalists. The winners receive a diploma, a money award (up to $1,200) and a statuette symbolizing IT.

Synopsys Inc came to the Armenian market in October 2004 after the signing of a merger agreement between Leda Design and Monterey Arset and the establishing of a new Synopsys Armenia open joint stock company. Several hundred of highly skilled engineers are currently employed by Synopsys Armenia, one of the biggest employers in the country. –0--