Geographic Area:
Northern Provinces
(Shirak, Lori, and Tavush)
Status: Active
Beneficiaries: Adults
Project Years:
2005 - Present
Supporters:
Patrick Sarkissian, Zabel Vassilian, Enterprise Incubator Foundation Shirak Technologies LLC, and Friends of FAR
The Gyumri IT Center is a technical school for highly-skilled individuals offering courses in Software Development, System Engineering and Project Management, Data Processing, Networking and System Administration. It will help create a hot-bed of IT specialists in northern Armenia and connect employers with trained professionals.
FAR has hired leading specialists, arriving daily from Yerevan, to instruct the classes that meet six days a week. Guest lecturers from the U.S. also teach the bright minds accepted into the IT Center. Additionally, the school provides English language courses to bolster students' core knowledge base.
Its library is a rich community resource to help Armenians take charge of their lives in the 21st century, equipping them with basic tools to engage in the global marketplace.
Another goal of this project is to help spur economic development in Gyumri, a city devastated by the 1988 earthquake that is now showing signs of growth and expansion.
