VivaCell-MTS is a mobile operator in Armenia, and continues to support a robotics lab at the well-known “Ayb” high school.
The Ayb School, located in Yerevan, the nation’s capital, is the first school in the country which combines local educational tradition with technological resources.
This week, a robotics lab was opened at the high school. It was sponsored by VivaCell-MTS. The company donated more than 14 million drams for the tech project ($33,663.26).
“We have great intellectual potential – mind our elder generation of academics, engineers, and first of all our children – they are the creators of the future of the country,” VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian said in a company statement carried by Panorama. “Our future depends on the young people we have today. Therefore, the basis of a quality economic future for Armenia is to be built today by raising thoughtful, creative, strong, committed citizens and patriots.”
In the past. labs in physics and chemistry were opened in Yerevan. Other labs focus on environmental subjects, as well as biology.
The Ayb lab offers a network of facilities with shared library resources, software, and management technology.
“The ‘AybLabs’ are based on the local and international experience, give students an opportunity to be personally involved in experiments, are in line with the latest technological requirements, meet the safety and ergonomic standards, give virtual and real life experimentation opportunities, provide means to organize studies on both school and professional levels, as well as facilitate to making the learning a smart process,” the news report added. “The labs are in compliance with all the modern requirements for equipment, facilities, furbishing, safety and management. The ‘AybLab’ network provides experience of exchange, shared exploitation of resources (print and video library, mooting software), usage of shared management technologies, joint procurements, etc.”
