Kcell and OpenIT announce the launch of the CAMP, joint social education project aimed at training young, advanced web developers. The goal of the project is to provide an opportunity to students from low-income and large families to develop web programming skills which will help in their further employment.
CAMP (Customers and Mentors Program) is a training program based on real experience. Project participants fulfill orders from clients under supervision and with participation of experienced mentors-developers. This format of accelerated practical training will allow making young demanded specialist with completed orders in the portfolio from entry-level web developer with basic knowledge within short period.
Launching the CAMP project is another step towards providing the Kazakhstan market with high-quality IT staff focusing on web programming. This is an excellent opportunity for students to level-up their practical skills. Availability of orders from business will make the learning process even more interesting and useful, «noted Alexey Lee, Director on Development of the Aviata. kz and member of the OpenIT.
The CAMP program will start in January 2018 and will last until September. During this time, three teams will be trained, each of which will be trained for three months on practical cases provided by development companies and large companies, including the Kcell. The project provides payment of scholarships to participants from low-income and large families.
This year we have done a lot in order to expand opportunities of Kazakhstan people to receive free education. We launched the Open University openu. kz, where the best teachers of domestic universities post their courses on IT, telecom, robotics and business. We launched a mobile application for studying the state language «Contextual Kazakh language». Therefore, it is especially pleasant to conclude the year with the launch of another educational project. Digitalization process has already covered almost all spheres of life in our country. We are increasingly making purchases on the Internet. Even supermarkets have their Internet stores. At that, at the Kazakhstan market there is great demand and great deficit in high-quality web programmers. The CAMP project is aimed at solving this problem. At that, for our company it is especially important to provide students from low-income families with a chance to get practical experience from the best teachers and become demanded at labor market, «emphasized Natalya Eskova, Head of the Communication Department of the Kcell JSC.
After completion of training program participants will be able to edit HTML and CSS on industrial level and program JavaScript interfaces, analyze customer’s requirements, work in «agile» mode and deliver completed work on time, develop prototypes of web products according to specified design layouts. But the main thing is that they will be able to earn in professional way, using received practical skills and knowledge.
Recruitment for the CAMP program training will be carried out since December 25, 2017, including 5 universities in Almaty: Kazakh-British Technical University, Suleyman Demirel University, International Information Technology University, Kazakh National University, Kazakh National Research Technical University. Anyone can take part in the selection. The main requirement — availability of basic knowledge of basics of web technologies (HTML, CSS), knowledge of basics of JavaScript programming in will be an advantage. For participation it is required to apply on the site openit.kz/camp.
OpenIT («Association OpenIT» Association of legal entities) is a non-commercial Kazakhstan educational initiative in the field of Internet professions. Mission of the OpenIT is to create critical mass of professionals in the Internet industry of Kazakhstan and launch uninterrupted process of IT direction growth.