Yandex Lyceum in Dubna

On 18 June, another graduation ceremony was held at Yandex Lyceum. This year, it was already the fifth one: 58 students completed the full two-year course of study.

The site of the Lyceum of the Yandex Academy started functioning in the summer of 2019 on the basis of Lyceum No.6 named after Academician G.N.Flerov with the active support of JINR. The Yandex Academy Lyceum programme was developed by the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization of Additional Professional Education "School of Data Analysis" (ANPO AVE "SHAD" Yandex), is designed for two academic years and is aimed at students in grades 8-10 that wish to master contemporary programming and development skills. Tuition is free for students. Groups are recruited based on the results of an open competition in which all Dubna schoolchildren can take part.

Lyceum of the Yandex Academy is an important federal project in IT education. Lyceum graduates already have skills at the junior-developer level and keep improving them, studying at Yandex partner programmes in universities and during an internship at the company. Lyceum became the start of entry into IT professions for many graduates and we hope that having obtained education in universities, the students will return to their hometown as qualified specialists.

At the graduation party, eleven first-year students were awarded Yandex Lyceum certificates based on the results of mastering the programme "Fundamentals of Programming in Python" and seven sophomores - based on the programme "Fundamentals of Industrial Programming". The students having successfully completed the first year will continue their studies in the second year without extra entrance tests. At the graduation, the students were congratulated in absentia by Director of the JINR University Centre Dmitry Kamanin. UC is our assistant and curator since the opening of the Yandex Lyceum site in our city.

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

The second year: "Fundamentals of Industrial Programming" is the most difficult and most interesting. The students learn about the technologies for developing projects, designing graphical interfaces. Sophomores meet real applied tasks, build applications using various libraries and advanced development tools, write chat bots for instant messengers, teach Alice new skills. And which is very important, they learn to work in a team, developing joint projects.

This year, our piggy bank of graduation projects was replenished with new versions of the famous games "Minesweeper", "Tetris", applications, such as task schedulers, an English simulator, an application for controlling finances, a game based on ancient Slavic myths, a game based on the songs of the popular group "King and the Jester," music applications-libraries, a chatbot for preparing for the exam in the Russian language and not only.

For two years of study, the certified teachers of the Lyceum of the Yandex Academy Roza Ershova and Nadezhda Semashko have been actively working with the students. Thanks to the joint coordinated work of students and teachers, the site in Dubna makes a significant contribution to the IT education of schoolchildren, attracting talented children.

Freshmen have a very difficult and interesting 2nd year ahead and sophomores that have successfully completed a full course of study wished them success, not to give up and not to pass before difficulties.

Now, it's summer and you can relax but a new school year is far behind. Recruitment to the 1st year group in Yandex Lyceum will open in July and the selection will begin in September 2025. For details about entering the Lyceum see on the official Yandex Lyceum website at the link https://lyceum.yandex.ru/ and on the VK page https://vk.com/yandexlyceum_dubna.

We invite smart, interested schoolchildren that have graduated from grades 7, 8, 9, like to meet tasks and work to get a unique opportunity to become a graduate of Yandex Lyceum!

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