Learning with passion

Entry point to IT professions

The Yandex Academy Lyceum platform opened in the summer of 2019 on the basis of Lyceum No.6 named after Academician G.N.Flerov with the strong support of JINR. The training programme was developed by the autonomous non-profit organization of additional professional education "School of data analysis" (Yandex group of companies), is designed for two academic years and is aimed at students in grades 8-10 that want to master advanced programming and development skills. Training is free for students. Groups are recruited based on the results of an open competition in which all Dubna schoolchildren can take part.

This year, the third graduation was held: 43 students completed the full course of study. Director of the JINR University Center Dmitry Kamanin came to our graduation and the awarding of certificates. The UC has been our assistant and curator since the opening of the Yandex Lyceum site in our city. Dmitry Kamanin cordially congratulated the students on their successful completion and wished them further success.

"The Yandex Academy Lyceum is an important federal project in IT education. Together with our partners, we teach high school students the basics of industrial development in Python for free and prepare them for a career in IT," Director of the Yandex Academy Sergey Brazhnik notes. "The Lyceum graduates 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. In the new academic year, we are going to expand the catalog of courses and formats so that the Lyceum becomes an entry point into IT professions."

Schoolchildren that enter the first year master the programme "Fundamentals of programming in Python". Knowledge of the language is not required for entering the Lyceum, the ability to think logically, to analyze and to meet non-standard tasks is enough. During the first year, children gain deep knowledge of the basics of the Python language, learn to work with external libraries and master the principles of object-oriented programming.

The second year is "Fundamentals of industrial programming", the most difficult and the most interesting year. Students learn about the technologies of software development, graphical interface design. Second-year students meet real applied tasks, build applications using various libraries and advanced development tools, chat bots for messengers, teach the voice assistant Alice new skills. And what is very important, the students learn to work in a team, creating joint projects.

This year, among the graduation projects on our platform, there were various games using PyQt and PyGame - tanks, hangman, "Five to one", "Golden frying pan", an improved version of the famous OSU game, as well as a math trainer, an mp3 player using video, a manager for mp3 files, a film library with film filtering, applications for testing subjects (geography, for example), mobile applications chat bots - Telegram and Discord bots, in particular, a virtual guide to Dubna, which you can walk around your hometown with and learn a lot of interesting things, our own testing system for testing programming tasks and football fans will be interested in a football news site.

During the two years of study, certified teachers of the Yandex Academy Lyceum Roza N.Ershova and Nadezhda S.Semashko have widely worked with the students. Thanks to the joint coordinated work of the students and teachers, the Dubna site has a high rating among other sites (and there are already 380 of them in 162 cities of Russia and Kazakhstan!) in terms of the number of those that completed the full course and the average score. This academic year, the average score for the first year was 61.4 and for the second year - 53.3. Believe me, these are high figures!

Four students were awarded with Certificates with Honors, these are the students that have scored 80+ points during the academic year. Among them, one second-year student and three first-year students and one of them, German Gridnev has become a super-excellent student, scoring 118 points out of 120 possible! The students are great students and we are proud of them. With their hard work, persistence and tenacity, they have proved that nothing is impossible and everything works out if it is interesting.

First-year students have a very difficult and interesting second year ahead of them and second-year students that have successfully completed all their projects wished them success, not to give up and not to give in to difficulties.

Recruitment to the first-year group of Yandex Lyceum started at the end of August. All details about entering the Lyceum should be found on the official website at the link https://academy.yandex.ru/lyceum.

We invite smart, interested schoolchildren that have completed 7-8 grades, that like to meet tasks and are ready to work hard, to get a unique opportunity to become a graduate of Yandex Lyceum!

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

What is Yandex Lyceum?

• An educational space where you can study advanced programming languages, immerse yourself in industrial development and master new technologies.
• If you are interested in programming, study at school, college, or technical school and are between 13 and 20 years old, the lyceum is for you.
• You will learn to program in Python or Go, build high-load applications, train neural networks and more.
• We will lay a solid foundation for future study at a university and work in an IT company.
• Program authors are Yandex experts that work with AI, train voice assistants, write code and are leaders of development teams.
• We issue a certificate after each course. It can be useful when entering a university and will be useful for a portfolio. The best are awarded with certificates with honors.