In robotics classes, Armenian teens dream of high-tech future


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 14 May 2019

A view of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan on April 30, 2019. (Photo by KAREN MINASYAN / AFP)

YEREVAN: In a sleek classroom in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, one of the poorest post-Soviet republics, 14-year-old Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan peers at the screen of her Apple Mac. 

During a computer programming course offered at the high-tech Tumo school, Ter-Petrosyan and her classmates learn how to digitise medieval texts. 

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