Entrepreneurship and innovation camps for schoolchildren have started in Lviv region. Teams of students from two schools in Sheptytskyi (Chervonograd) were the first to learn how to generate innovative ideas and received certificates for new computer equipment for school computer science classrooms.
More than 400 students study at Chervonograd Gymnasium No. 2. According to the principal, Ruslana Vereskun, two computer rooms of the gymnasium have had technicians since 1999 and 2004. And for important online exams, students bring their own computers from home. At the same time, talented children win IT competitions.
“Last year we won 4 prizes of the city Olympiad. This is a good result. Chervonograd is a mining region, and in the conditions of transformation of the coal industry, children choose future specialties, are interested in professions related to engineering and programming. Schools need new equipment to meet the needs of students,” said the director of the gymnasium.
The goal of the Ukrainian-Taiwanese charity project “Leave no one behind partnership” is to give children additional, innovative knowledge that will be useful to them in adult life and to computerize schools. Project trainers come to schools and hold two-day training sessions with high school students. Children in teams work on original ideas for their own business, learn to negotiate, present an innovative product, and attract investments.
“Many Ukrainian schools lack computers, or the equipment needs to be updated. Thanks to Taiwan, we have the opportunity not only to equip schools with new equipment, but also to develop non-standard modern skills in children. In the Lviv region, we plan to organize and hold 16 educational camps, in Sheptytskyi (Chervonohrad), Drohobych, Stebnyk, Lviv. In addition, computer science teachers from Brody, Yavorov, Buska, Stry are improving their qualifications at UKU. And this is a separate area of the educational project. All schools will be replenished with sets of laptops and projectors,” said the coordinator of the “Leave no one behind partnership” project.
Teams of schoolchildren from 17 educational institutions of the Ivano-Frankivsk region have already generated ideas in entrepreneurship camps. 224 laptops and projectors with screens were given to their schools, in particular to the mountain communities of the region.
The project of innovative education and computerization “Leave no one behind partnership” is implemented by the public organization “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” with the support of Taiwan and with the assistance of Mykola Kniazhytskyi.
“We direct international investment from Taiwan to education and youth development,” Mykola Kniazhytskyi, the founder of the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Form”, emphasized. – Entrepreneurship camps were held in Ivano-Frankivsk region and started in Lviv region, and later will be in Poltava region. After the exercises, we will hand over 1,100 laptops to schools in the three regions. Children from large cities and remote communities of our country will have the same conditions for learning, the same motivation. This is a new generation of Ukrainians who will build a better country.”
Pages of the project in social networks: “Leave no one behind partnership”:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leavenoonebehindpartnership
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leave.no.one.behind_project?igsh=c3JvbnduMmZ2YXhm
NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” website: https://www.facebook.com/demforum.org
