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Penza school students to be taught programming within Yandex pilot project

10:59 | 08.08.2016 | Education

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Penza, 8 August 2016. PenzaNews. The Penza region will become the participant of the All-Russian program launched by Yandex Company within which school students of 8th-10th grades will be professionally trained as developers of demanded programming languages.

Penza school students to be taught programming within Yandex pilot project

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The training course is scheduled for two years.

Two sites are allocated in Penza for the purpose — provincial lyceum - boarding school for gifted children, and Hi-Tech science and technology park Ramee.

Four groups, 15 students each will be created for the course.

As expected, the memorandum of cooperation between the government of the Penza region and Yandex Company on the launch of the educational project will be signed at the end of August. The beginning of the course is scheduled for October, 2016.

In addition to Penza, the project participants will be Kaluga and Saratov, the press service of the regional government reports.

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