High school students from six mountain communities of Ivano-Frankivsk region took part in the entrepreneurship and innovation camp. The school teams worked for two days at the Krasnoil Lyceum of the Verkhovyna Settlement Council. Upon completion of training, students received certificates for computer equipment for school computer science classrooms
According to the coordinator of the Leave no one behind project, Ulyana Pak, mountain areas have somewhat limited infrastructure, but because of this, children should not be deprived of access to modern educational resources: the labor market everywhere requires knowledge of technology.
“We have involved schoolchildren from remote communities to study, and soon we will transfer modern equipment to their schools. With this project, we are creating a space for creativity. So that teenagers can feel their own potential and understand how to use it in the future. Such an opportunity appeared thanks to Taiwan’s investment in Ukrainian education,” Ulyana Pak addressed the schoolchildren.
The project manager in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Maria Makivnychuk, said that the entrepreneurship and innovation camp was held in the Ivano-Frankivsk region for the third time.
“In general, the project covered 16 educational institutions in the region. We hope that some of the trainees will eventually be engaged in business,” said Maria Makivnychuk.
Maria Shkindyuk has been working as the director of the Krasnoil Lyceum of the Verkhovyna settlement council for 20 years. For two decades, the premises were repaired and completed. The lyceum has become a support school in which about 500 children study.
“We have equipped computer labs, but there is a lack of computers. And because of this, we have to divide classes into groups. In addition, not all children have computers at home. At school, they get a chance to learn about technology. We teach them the Python programming language, they perform interesting tasks and prepare for further education and work in the IT field,” added Maria Shkindyuk.
Odarka Budzan, a teacher at the Zelensky Lyceum of the Zelensky Village Council of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region, came to the camp with her students. According to her, children’s interest in information technologies grows every year, and sometimes you want to learn innovation and creativity from children. Children need knowledge for admission, planning for the future.
Maksym Kolyada, coach of entrepreneurship and innovation camps, recommended that schoolchildren remember three important components: entrepreneurship is, first of all, the benefit you create for others. Secondly, it is about the effectiveness of own decisions. And the third is profit. That is, the resources you receive must exceed the costs.
Each team produced an improvised model of their own useful product that stands out in the market. She also presented the idea of development and popularization of her own community.
The camp is organized within the framework of the Ukrainian-Taiwanese project Leave no one behind partnership, which is implemented by the All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum Public Organization with the assistance of Mykola Kniazhytskyi.
“This project involves innovative training of schoolchildren, upgrading the qualifications of teachers and the computerization of educational institutions. Our country will be strong and better if it educates intellectual, motivated youth. That is why we are directing investment from partners from Taiwan to education. In total, we will hold more than 20 entrepreneurship and innovation camps in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Poltava regions. In September, we will start transferring technology in educational institutions. In total, these are more than 1,100 new computers for computer science classrooms,” Mykola Kniazhytskyi said.
