The Lyceum of the Yandex Academy will operate in 12 cities of Tatarstan - Aznakaevo, Almetyevsk, Bugulma, Yelabuga, Zelenodolsk, Innopolis, Kazan, Mamadysh, Mendeleevsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Chistopol, and 3 rural settlements – Alekseevskoe, Rybnaya Sloboda urban-type settlements and Tanayka village. The Lyceum will operate at 27 venues.
Yandex.Lyceum is free full-time programming courses for schoolchildren from one of the largest IT companies in the country. For admission, it is necessary to test the ability to think logically on the project website from August 30 to September 10, and then have an interview with a Yandex.Lyceum teacher.
On August 20, in the technopark in the sphere of high technologies IT-park, a solemn ceremony of awarding the best graduates of Yandex.Lyceum took place.
The school year at Yandex.Liceum has ended in Tatarstan. As many as 270 schoolchildren finished the first year of studying, 160 people underwent a two-year training programme. The project has been working in the republic for 3 years (started in 2017).