Damascus-SANA
Today, 880 adolescents from different governorates participated in the first level test for the programming marathon for children and adolescents for the year 2021, which is organized by the Syrian Virtual University and the Excellence and Creativity Commission within their digital development project for young people and adolescents.
The test, which was conducted “remotely” for adolescents aged 12 to 15 years, and lasted from 12 noon until 6 pm, aims to assess the participants’ logical thinking and analysis skills and their knowledge of the approved programming languages in order to distribute them on three levels “beginner, intermediate and advanced” to begin with. Then the training phase in proportion to each level.
Director of the Lifelong Learning Center at the Syrian Virtual University, Saya Google, explained in a statement to SANA that the test was carried out from the virtual university’s electronic platform for the competition, and young people participated in it, each of his own account, indicating that it included more in-depth issues and graphics in programming languages than those presented to the category The children last week, with the aim of identifying their levels in this field for the training stage.
Engineer Maya Taqi, director of the joint digital development project for young people and adolescents between the university and the Excellence and Creativity Authority, indicated in a similar statement that the test was conducted “remotely”, taking into account the measures to address the Corona epidemic and to avoid any gatherings of participating children, pointing out that the process of training participants in the marathon will start at the end of the month. This June.
On the eighth of this month, 900 children from different governorates participated in the first level test “Children’s category” of the programming marathon for children and adolescents for the year 2021, organized by the Syrian Virtual University and the Excellence and Creativity Commission within their digital development project for young people and adolescents.
The training program for the marathon, which is scheduled to be organized next August, includes specific, scientifically and timely training and qualification stages, during which qualifying tests are conducted and appropriate training is provided on various software technologies and on logical thinking mechanisms for children and adolescents in various Syrian governorates.
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