The Syrian Computer Society’s branch in Lattakia reviews its pioneering experience in the Day of Coding 2022

A remarkable participation was achieved by Syria represented by the Syrian Computer Society ( SCS) Lattakia branch in theGlobal Coding Award Day event organized by the Ministry of Education in Palestine.

The scientific conference was held in conjunction with the Arab Coding Week organized by the Arab League Educational Scientific Cultural Organization ALESCO .

The virtual event, which witnessed broad-based Arab and international participation from various countries of the world such as Brazil, India, Korea and Spain, included a review of the pioneering experiences and the latest developments in the Information Technology ( IT) sector.

Head of the Lattakia’s branch of the SCS Eng. Mariam Fayoud highlighted in her intervention the Syrian experience in training children and adolescents in programming sciences and modern technologies and addressing different age categories through the clubs of the SCS ‘s branch in Lattakia.

ENG. Fayoud reviewed the remarkable achievements of the Robot Club members over the past years and the local, Arab and international awards they won, indicating that in 2018 the Lattakia team ranked first in the Arab world in the annual Sumo Wrestling Robotics Challenge, as well as the distinguished ranks of the club’s teams annually in the National Robot Olympiad competition.

As for the Modeling and Simulation Club, Eng. Fayoud stressed in a statement to the Syriatimes e-newspaper that the establishment of the club is a pioneering step at the local and Arab levels in terms of teaching children and adolescents the mechanisms of modeling and simulation using computers after transforming the problem or idea to be modeled into a mathematical equation.

Shedding light on the Lattakia’s branch of the SCS in teaching and training children and adolescents the artificial intelligence AI sciences, Eng. Fayoud said the AI club’s experience had a greater global resonance, as the club’s activity for the ages of children and adolescents began in the data camp, which was launched shortly after the club was established in 2018, to introduce the beneficiaries the concepts of data storage as well as carrying out many workshops and specialized training courses.

She added “ the SCS managed to design applications concerned with various societal issues, including an application for people with special needs such as the autism , in addition to an application concerned with discovering addiction cases.