Hye Tech Kids

In 2016, one of the biggest challenges facing the IT sector in Armenia was the lack of qualified individuals to work in the field. There were approximately 3000 vacancies in the sector, yet unemployment remained high throughout the country.

ONEArmenia partnered with the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE) to build Armath engineering and robotics laboratories in five public schools in rural Armenia (in Tavush, Paravaqar, Alaverdi, Noyemberyan and Tashir).

These labs are open to all students and provide them the opportunity and tools to study computer sciences and robotics at an early age, receive coaching and mentoring and potentially go on to pursue a career in IT, which is also the highest paid sector in the country. The results of this project speak for themselves: 84% of all Armath alumni have been admitted to university, 81% of whom are studying various IT specializations.

A Grant Thornton assessment conducted in September 2017 found that 43% of employed Armath Lab graduates were working as programmers, 29% were working in IT, and a whopping 12% had created their own startup.