Sixteen-year-old Mari Panosyan from Parakar once imagined a very different future for herself. Like many students her age, she tried different paths before discovering what truly inspired her. “At first I was studying programming,” Mari says. “But I realized it wasn’t really for me.” Not long after, she learned about the Armenian Creative Technologies College (ACT) and its Digital Art Department. The program immediately caught her attention. Curious and excited, she began p