YEREVAN. – The schools in Armenia are being introduced to computer and technology courses which become a basis for robotics, Instigate Company Director Arman Poghosyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

The aforementioned courses use the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-created Scratch program which has been “armenianized.” As a result, it will be possible to not only construct scenarios and games, but to control robots.    

“This enables [the children] to learn the principles of [computer] programming. The system is very similar to a robot; you can give [it] commands,” Poghosyan said. 

The program has begun to be introduced in about twenty schools in Armenia. As of September, robot construction teams will be formed in fifty schools, and an attempt will be made to apply the “armenianized” Scratch program in these schools, too.