This project sought to assist Mail.ru Group in addressing the identified shortage of technical talent that emanates from inadequacies in the Russian education system. Through surveys of Russian secondary students and interviews with technology company managers and professionals in the education field, the project team validated Mail.ru's concerns about the need to enhance IT education in secondary schools and determined the most effective methods for stimulating secondary school students' interest in informatics. The team worked in conjunction with students from WPI, FU, BMSTU, MSU to construct a mobile application prototype that combines theory with interactive games to stimulate interest in informatics from a young age. Further development and implementation of this tool is forthcoming.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Kornitsky, Matthew B.
• Ferreira, Matthew Alexander
• Liu, Mingquan
• Sullivan, Bridget Edith

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042519-135541

关键词

• Social and Human Services

Advisor

• Nikitina, Svetlana

Year

• 2019

Center

• Moscow, Russia Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Mail.Ru

Date created

• 2019-04-25

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright