The Regional Round of the Junior Chess Championship took place in Ijevan

On March 6-8, the Junior Chess Championship organized by the Tavush Region Representation of Armenian Chess Academy took place at Ijevan Secondary School N. 3.

“The tournament is the final round of the Tavush Region Junior Girls and Boys championship, as a result of which the participants of each age group who win get the opportunity to participate in the semi-final tournament of the Armenian Championship. Children of eight age groups play: 5 from boys and three from girls,” tells Artur Gevorgyan, Tavush Region Chess Academy Representative.

The Armenian Chess Academy organizes a chess tournament for 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16-year-olds every year. This year about 80 young people from various communities of Tavush region participated in the tournament. 

The coaches note that the role of chess in the lives of children and young people is more prioritized every year and such tournaments contribute to the development of teenagers’ skills. According to Alvard Sahakyan, the coach of the Dilijan Chess club, “Chess is very important for children as they can perceive life correctly, and it also enables them to think a few steps ahead.”

 



The field of education in Tavush region: Roundtable discussion

In Tavush TV we talked about the accessibility, opportunities, and the issues of the field of education with the Executive Director of Dilijan Central School Naira Daluzyan, teacher-leader of “Teach for Armenia” educational program and the mentor of “Seroond” program Yelena Ghukasyan, and the president of Student Council of Aygehovit Secondary School Zina Poghosyan.





The Deputy Minister of ESCS Zhanna Andreasyan paid a working visit to Tavush region

The main substantive change in the field of comprehensive education in 2021 was the approval and testing of a new standard of comprehensive education in the schools of Tavush region.

On February 2, Zhanna Andreasyan, the Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of RA, paid a working visit to Tavush region: “Today we are here to see how the process of introducing new subject standards takes place in schools, what problems, issues, points there are, that need to be amended, because it’s important for us that the tests are effective, and as a result, we can really get the best standard.”

The first stop of the Deputy Minister was at Khashtarak. Secondary School. Accompanied by the school principal, the Deputy Minister, Arsen Baghdasaryan, the Head of the Department of Comprehensive Education of the Ministry of ESCS, and Artashes Torosyan, Executive Director of the “National Center for Education Development and Innovation” Foundation, got acquainted with the process of application of the state standard of comprehensive education and answered the teachers’ and students’ questions. The Deputy Minister also visited Lusadzor Basic School, toured the classrooms, got acquainted with the educational process.

The visit ended at Ijevan Basic School N1, where a session of the pedagogical council took place. The Deputy Minister summed up the visit to the region in Tavush regional administration, with a meeting with the regional governor Hayk Ghalumyan.

According to Ms. Andreasyan especially the meetings with the teachers “were very important and they were meaningful discussions, where the good was talked about well, but the issues were also pointed out, very specific observations were made.”

It should be reminded that the new subject standards and programs have been introduced for experimental purposes in the 2nd, 5th, 7th and 10th grades of the state secondary schools of Tavush region. Subject standards have passed the stage of public and professional discussions with teaching communities and professionals of the field.



One year after the opening: TUMO Box in Berd

“TUMO gave me new knowledge, very interesting and new experience and areas, I did not know about”, “Due to TUMO, I have decided to build my future in IT.”

“While attending creativity course, I felt that I could work with a text and decided to become a screenwriter or journalist.”

TUMO Box has been operating in the border village of Berd for a year now, giving about 300 children from the city and nearby villages the chance to specialize and master in modern and demanded areas.

Here teens explore 14 areas ranging from design to technologies. “TUMO Box” is the first in Tavush but won’t be the last. Six more such educational centers will be established and will operate in different communities of the region, making modern technologies accessible to all the children.