“I wish we could have a longer camp to do more self-awareness tests and participate in more mock interviews for jobs. This is so interesting and useful!”, said Sveta Ohanyan from Goris as their group of 18 students reflected on the first day of their online camp marking their successful graduation from the 2-year English Access Microscholarship Program (Access) funded by the U.S. government and implemented by PH International.
In August a total of 54 students from Chambarak, Goris and Yeghvard participated in 3-day online Access camps within which 11 remarkable native and foreign speakers shared their knowledge, wisdom and life skills with the students. They studied personality types, received advice on career development themes, learnt tools to spot social media manipulations, and discussed how to avoid negative stereotyping. The cross-cultural sessions led by 3 U.S. Peace Corps volunteers as well as guests from Japan and the Philippines living in Armenia, enriched the students’ cross-cultural awareness.
Throughout August 10-21, 2020, within the U.S government funded “Building English Language Capacity for Armenian Students and Teachers” program implemented by PH International, 12 Armenian teachers and trainers of English, selected from a pool of over 38 applicants through a rigorous, merit-based nationwide recruitment, participated in a 50-hour, 10-day online “Training of English Teachers as Mentors”. The training was conducted by Steven Gomez, a TEFL specialist from the U.S., with extensive experience of integrated teaching.
Throughout July 14- August 8, 2020, within the English Access Microscholarship component of the U.S.G-funded “Building English Language Capacity for Armenian Students and Teachers” program, implemented by PH International, 100 Armenian teenagers from 5 regional communities of Vanashen, Surenavan, Arpi, Yeghegnadzor and Ttujur in groups of 20 participated in 20-hour, 4-day online English camps.
Within its U.S. government funded, 4-year (2019-2023) “Building English Language Capacity for
Armenian Students and Teachers” program PH International (https://www.ph-int.org/) is announcing a
rigorous, merit-based nation-wide competition for recruiting 10 Armenian teachers/trainers of English
for involvement in an intensive and multi-stage professional development initiative to become
mentor teachers.
On February 20, 2020 Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Lia Miller, alongside the Governor of Tavush Province, Hayk Chobanyan, and Country Director of Project Harmony International Armenia Office, Mariam Martirosyan, officially opened the American Library and Training Center – a new learning hub in Ijevan supported by the U.S. Embassy and housed at the Ijevan Branch of Yerevan State University.
On October 19, the SRO in cooperation with the school administration initiated a sport tournament between teams of 10th graders, with five girls and five boys in each team.
On October 2, 2018, a total of 40 students and 6 educators of Alaverdy #5 and #8 schools, accompanied by their SRO and PHI staff visited the SMART Center to participate in Media Literacy and Internet Safety training conducted by professional trainers of this center.
On different dates from October 25 to November 5 students and educators of Vardenis, Martuni, Dzoragyugh high schools had a chance to travel to Yerevan and meet the staff of RA Ombudsman's office.
On November 13, RA Police Academy hosted students of Yeghvard High School. The students visited the Academy to get acquainted with this institution and its programs.
On October 18, 2018 thirty students, two educators and two parents from Tchambarak high school accompanied by the SRO and the PHI staff visited Media Initiative Center to participate in Media Literacy and Internet Safety training organized by the professional staff of the Center.
