Schoolchildren of Karaganda region were taught to create computer games

Schoolchildren of the Karaganda region took part in the GameFestBegin IT IT festival, organized by the social and educational project of the InDrive company - BeginIT. They got acquainted with the gamedev industry and got motivated for further development.

The event was held in Astana, on the territory of the largest international technopark of IT startups in Central Asia, Astana HUB.

– The festival was attended by 38 students from 14 rural regions of Kazakhstan, including 20 schoolchildren from the Karaganda region. Employees of the Educational and Methodological Center for the Development of Education of the Karaganda region and the IQanat Educational Foundation were engaged in the search and selection of schools and children in the project. These are six children from Nurinsky, four from Osakarovsky, six more from Shetsky districts and two students each from Aktogay district and the Tansholpan orphanage," says Esbol Arinov, deputy director of the Educational and Methodological Center for the Development of Education in the Karaganda region. – They became the best according to the results of the qualifying stage. The event allowed to motivate rural students to study programming through the prism of creating computer and mobile games, as well as to introduce them to the IT sphere of Kazakhstan.

The speakers of the festival were the leading companies – Lerna, Myton, BigDreamLab.

The participants were given an excursion to Nazarbayev University, as well as master classes and business games, lectures and interactivity. Teachers were presented with innovative methods of teaching computer science as part of a special intensive.

– In the modern world, specialists in the field of IT and programming are in great demand, – says a student of the 9th grade of the school named after Zh. Akylbayeva of the Shet district Shakir Nurasyl. – I am very glad that I took part in such an event and I am grateful to my teachers who helped me pass the qualifying round. We have gained a lot of new knowledge and emotions and are looking forward to the opportunity to bring our ideas to life.

Gamedev is the process of creating a game from development and design to release to the market. These can be games for mobile phones, consoles, computers or other gadgets. Today it is one of the fastest growing and most profitable industries.