Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the 21st award ceremony of the “Annual Educational Award in the IT Sector” at the Presidential Palace. This year, 27 students and 9 pupils from 126 participants were awarded.

The awards were presented by Nikol Pashinyan. The Prime Minister congratulated the awardees and noted that the biggest challenge is life. According to Nikol Pashinyan, challenges should be perceived as part of life. “Sometimes, when we talk about a challenge, we perceive it as something extraordinary. In my opinion, we perceive it as extraordinary for two reasons. First, we do not face the fact that the challenge is life itself, and second, the complexity of the challenge is that we do not know anything about it. In other words, we do not know how to manage this challenge. If someone does not succeed in something, it means they do not know something.”

In this context, the Prime Minister emphasized the importance of education and emphasized that it is a strategy for the Government, because education is the only way to reduce our level of ignorance and increase the level of knowledge. According to the Prime Minister, education is the only way to overcome the challenge, that is, to make life more manageable, and this applies to both individual and group, public and state levels.

Nikol Pashinyan noted that the Government invests in the education sector at every possible opportunity, not only to reduce our current level of ignorance, but also to pass on an even lower level of ignorance to the next generation, the next Government. And, according to the Prime Minister, today's award ceremony is also aimed at encouraging this effort of pupils and students. "In our country and in many countries, it is customary to say that a person is the highest value. And this is an indisputable truth. A person is the highest value, therefore the state, the Government must do their utmost to satisfy the needs of a person. There is no objection here. I want to draw attention to one important circumstance: a person must be the highest value, first of all, for himself. That is, each person is first of all the highest value for himself. And therefore, if we expect the Government, institutions, public organizations to do their utmost for a person, it is logical that a person should first of all expect from himself to do his utmost for himself. And what is the biggest thing a person can do for himself is to get an education,” said Nikol Pashinyan, adding that the Government should do its utmost to encourage people to get an education.

The Prime Minister once again congratulated the award winners and thanked them for the efforts they have made for their development, for considering themselves the highest value. Thus, according to Nikol Pashinyan, the award winners consider their country the highest value, they consider their state the highest value, which is worthy of appreciation.

The Annual Educational Award in the IT Sector was established in 2005 at the initiative of Synopsys Armenia, based on an agreement signed between the company and the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. These initiatives, implemented under the motto “Discover the Best, Inspire the Next,” symbolize effective cooperation between the Government, business, and the education system. To date, 707 young people have been awarded this award, of which 495 are students and 212 are pupils.