ArmInfo. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened the international school of creative technologies TUMO on Presnya in Moscow / According to the CAP, the center will be able to independently study graphic design and robotics,
3D modeling and development of computer games, music, film production and animation. "Creative technologies - the development of software and computer games, cinema and animation, new media, design and others - are the driver of the development of many cities in the world. This is a cool direction for Moscow, very popular, very fashionable. I think it will develop here and the demand for it will be great, "- said, opening the center, the mayor of the city Sergei Sobyanin.
He thanked the enterprises that have invested in the development of creative education in the capital and created a comfortable space for children. In the building with an area of one thousand square meters, there is an educational atrium - an amphitheater with 90 seats, classrooms for seminars, recording studios, robotics with Lego Mindstorms constructors, as well as a recreation area on the roof.
Students have at their disposal professional equipment - 65 iMac computers, DSLR cameras and camcorders, graphic stations and tablets with Wacom RFID interface, 3D printers.
After examining where and what the children would be doing, the head of the city said: "Moscow continues to prepare for September 1. In addition to standard school lessons, we, of course, are preparing a huge network of additional education, which is very developed in the city. age groups attend clubs, sections, sports schools, children's technoparks. And every year there are more and more of them."
The TUMO International School of Creative Technologies, headquartered in Yerevan, was founded in 2011. Now such schools are operating in Paris, Beirut, and there are plans to open them in Berlin, Tokyo, California. Over the nine years of its existence, more than 50 thousand children have already been trained within the framework of this school. It will start working on Presnya in October. And in September, Muscovites will be able to attend an open day there.
No special training and testing is required for admission. Up to 2 thousand children a month from 12 to 17 years old will be able to study both internally and remotely. The 100 most talented students will study for free. The term of study for one educational program is from 10 months to two years. School graduates form a portfolio of completed creative projects, which will help them to enter a college or university, where a creative competition is required.