MINSK, 8 January (BelTA) – The national educational camp #YouCAN in Minsk has enrolled 70 teenagers aged 13-17 from adoptive families, orphanages, and foster homes from all over Belarus in its winter session, BelTA learned from co-organizer of the project Natalya Mironchuk.
The project aims to help teenagers choose a future profession and appropriate educational institutions and show that anyone can major in such popular and prestigious subjects as web-design and programming, blogging and journalism, PR and marketing, SEO and SMM. This education and recuperation project is supported by the Belarusian Education Ministry.
The #YouCAN camp is running as a national project for the second time. The pilot project was launched in Brest and Brest Oblast in 2018. Minsk hosted the summer session of the camp in 2019. The educational program provides for studying IT, finances, marketing, SEO, journalism, PR, and web-design.
The program of this winter session focuses on developing project management skills and teaching to apply them in all activities, not only in programming. The students of the camp will work on their IT projects during the whole session.
The camp employs not only Belarusian teachers and mentors, but also specialists in educational programs and social engineering from Saint Petersburg and Moscow, project supervisor Katerina Bril noted. They will introduce the participants to foresight thinking, teach them to set and fulfill tasks, to outline further activities, to develop projects from the idea to the search for partners and financing, to simulate incidents, and to work in a team. The students together with their mentors will discuss which professions will be in demand in the future and which common professions will undergo changes. Belarusian entrepreneurs will tell the participants their success stories.
The camp will be running in one of Minsk education and recuperation centers till 11 January.
