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On the initiative of Ayb School and MIC Armenia (Microsoft Innovation Center Armenia), Ayb High School hosted the third Hour of Code event. The general partner of the event was VivaCell-MTS.

The event organized already for the 3rd time in Armenia aims to teach a variety of programming languages, develop logic, creativity, and problem solving skills. And all of this can be learned through games in just a few hours.

Workshops by leading IT experts were held in parallel with the event. They taught participants how to design and implement games, talked about systems engineering, cyber security, and the importance of strong passwords.

“Programming is cool. From year to year, more and more people are excited about programming. There is no age limit for learning programming; each one at any time can start to learn. Today there are many ways to learn programming without a significant cost. Through the Hour of Code, we want people to start their exciting journey with us," said Ayb School Head Aram Pakhchanian.

"Living in a tech millennium, it is very important to make children not only technology consumers but also technology creators. What we consume online, we can also create. Such activities stimulate interest towards programming, and new ideas and innovative solutions among schoolchildren," said Artashes Vardanyan, director of Microsoft Innovation Center.

“VivaCell-MTS provides continuous support to the organization of the Hour of Code event, based on the imperative of creating awareness and encouraging the interest of the youth toward Information and Communication Technologies, as well as based on the vision of Armenia as a country having competitive advantage in this sphere,” VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian said.

For the organization of the Hour of Code event, Armenia’s Leading Telecommunications Operator provided internet access with 150Mbps of speed in both uplink and downlink, through Wi-Fi coverage. This ensured simultaneous connection for 300 participants, with every user being provided with internet connectivity speed of 3Mbps, on the average. 

The official hashtag was #HourofCodeEVN. The "tasty" partner of the event was Menu.am.

The Hour of Code is an international global movement reaching more than 280 million participants from over 180 countries. Happily, we can state that the interest toward this event is growing. In 2015, the Hour of Code gathered more than 250 participants aged from 5 to 18 from different regions of Armenia. In 2016 the number of participants exceeded 300.