Learning with passion

Yandex Academy Lyceum in Dubna

In mid-June, another graduation ceremony was held at the Yandex Lyceum. More than 50 students completed the full two-year course. Director of the JINR University Centre Dmitry Kamanin was invited to our graduation and awarding of certificates.

Dmitry Kamanin cordially congratulated the students on their successful completion, wished them further success and spoke about the possibilities of working at JINR. The UC has been our assistant and curator since the opening of the Yandex Lyceum site in Dubna in 2019.

The Yandex Academy Lyceum is an important federal project in IT education. Graduates of the Lyceum already have skills at the level of junior developers and improve them by studying in Yandex partner programmes at universities and during internships at the company. The Lyceum became the start of entry into the IT profession for many graduates.

Students entering the first year master the programme "Fundamentals of programming in Python". To enter the Lyceum, knowledge of the language is not required; it is enough to be able to think logically, to analyze and to meet non-standard issues. During the first year, students gain in-depth knowledge of the basics of the Python language, learn to work with external libraries and master the principles of object-oriented programming.

The second course, "Fundamentals of industrial programming" is the most difficult and most interesting course. Children learn about the technologies of programme development and design of graphical interfaces. Second-year students meet real applied issues, create applications using various libraries and modern development tools, write chat bots for instant messengers and teach Alice new skills. And what is very important is that they learn to work in a team, developing joint projects.

This year, our collection of graduation projects was replenished with new versions of well-known games ("Mineweeper", "Klondike", "Tag", "Tower Defense"), the following projects were written: a network version of the game "Go", an application for checkers fans and a useful application for learning mathematics "Building graphs", racing game "Road", arcade game "Cars", graphic editor "Spider effects", in which you can not only build an image, but also apply various effects, including fractalization, shooter "Hollow_spider_game", telegram bot "A simulator for learning a foreign language", the website "Spiders of Dubna", the "Art Gallery" platform, where artists can exhibit their paintings.

Over the course of two years of study, certified lyceum teachers Roza Ershova and the author of these lines have extensively worked with students. Thanks to the joint well-coordinated work of the students and teachers, the site in Dubna has a high rating among other sites in terms of the number of people that completed the full course and the average score (this academic year, the average score for the first year was 50 and for the second year - 70), this is noted with letters of gratitude from Yandex Education and the Yandex Academy Lyceum.

Four students were awarded certificates with honors; these are the students that scored over 80 points during the academic year. Among them are three sophomores and one freshman. They are great students and we are proud of them! With their hard work, perseverance and insistence, they proved that nothing is impossible and everything works out if there is interest.

Freshmen have a very difficult and interesting 2nd year ahead of them. The second-year students that successfully completed the full course of study, wished them success, not to give up and not to give in to difficulties.

Now it's summer and you can relax, but the new school year is just around the corner. Enrollment into the 1st year group at Yandex Lyceum starts in August. All details about entering the Lyceum should be viewed on the official website of the Yandex Academy Lyceum at the link https://academy.yandex.ru/lyceum and on the VK page https://vk.com/yandexlyceum_dubna.

We invite smart, interested schoolchildren that have completed grades 7-9 that enjoy meeting issues and working hard, to get a unique opportunity to become a graduate of the Yandex Lyceum!

For reference. The site of the Yandex Academy Lyceum opened in the summer of 2019 on the basis of Lyceum No.6 named after Academician G.N.Flerov with the wide support of JINR. The Yandex Academy Lyceum programme was developed by the autonomous non-profit organization of additional professional education "School of Data Analysis" (ANO APE "SDA" Yandex), is designed for two academic years and is aimed at students in grades 8-10 that wish to master modern programming and development skills. Training is free for students. Groups are selected based on the results of an open competition, in which students from all schools in Dubna can take part.

Nadezhda SEMASHKO, coordinator
of the site of the Yandex Academy Lyceum in Dubna,
8 (903) 008-43-42, ns.semashko@gmail.com, ns.semashko@yandex.ru