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On the initiative of Ayb School and MIC Armenia (Microsoft Innovation Center Armenia), Ayb High School will host the Hour of Code event on December 20, Ayb School’s press service said.

The Hour of Code is an international global movement reaching more than 100 million participants from around 45 000 schools of over 180 countries.  The Hour of Code gives participants an opportunity to learn various programming languages and approaches easily through games and helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic, and creativity.

This year, the Hour of Code is going to take place for the second time in Armenia. Last year the event united more than 150 participants from different schools of Armenia. The interest towards this initiative is rising. More than 250 participants are already registered for the Hour of Code 2015.

“Nowadays, programing is available to everyone. The main aim of the Hour of Code is to develop programming thinking regardless of career. The Hour of Code 2014 showed that such initiatives bring together and inspire many children. Ayb School encourages such innovation formats. We believe that the implementation of such projects is a large investment in the education and development of future generations,” said Aram Pakhchanian, the head of Ayb School.

“Today technologies are used in every aspect of life—from phones to cars, medicine to daily life. That is why in schools of many countries programming is a school subject. Microsoft Innovation Center attaches great importance to this initiative, which aims to show schoolchildren from early ages how technologies that they use are created," said MIC director Artashes Vardanyan.

All who are interested in new technologies, games, and programming can participate. There is no age limit, and it is not required to have any knowledge of programing languages. Only English language knowledge is required. The registration ended on December 13.

This year, besides the main part of the event, a robotics show as well as creation of new samples out of broken phones are expected. The official hashtag is #HourofCodeEVN.

As in the previous year, VivaCell-MTS provides high-speed Internet connection during the Hour of Code 2015 event. The "tasty" partner of our event is Menu.am.

The event is also supported by UITE and PicsArt.