On May 10, 2019,  YSU Ijevan Branch hosted an event dedicated to the 455th anniversary of William Shakespeare, organized by the Department of English Language and Literature.

The third year students of “Foreign Languages”, students of different specialties, as well as the professorial staff of the Department took a part in the event.

 Students introduced Shakespeare’s biography in English, his main works, some of his well- known tragedies, as well as sonets.

 In particular, it was mentioned William Shakespeare (baptized on April 26, 1564 to April 23, 1616) was an English playwright, actor and poet and is often called England’s national poet. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare’s plays have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major livinglanuage, in addition to being continually performed all around the world.

 The participants also prepared translations of movie trailers based on Shakespeare’s writings.

 The event, dedicated to the 455th anniversary of Shakespeare, was held in an engaging and pleasant atmosphere.

  On May 10, 2019, YSU Ijevan Branch hosted intellectual game team competition.

 8 teams took a part in the competition, including SSS 1 and Student Council 2 teams.  This time, students had a special opportunity to include not only the same course students, but also students of different courses, professions and faculties.  The goal of this format is to increase team efficiency.

 The jury members were Margarit Tamrazyan, second-year student of History, Arpine Martirosyan, first-year student of the same specialty, and Diana Sardaryan, a third-year student of Elementary Pedagogy and Methodology specialty.

 The Competition was held in one round, including  20 questions checking students logic and background knowledge.

 After a strong and persistent competition, the SPARTA team became the winner (Ghazumyan Larida, Ghalumyan Mher, Baldryan Alikhan, Kocharyan Nune, Melikbekyan Suren).

 SSS team took the  second place, and the first-year students of Elementary Pedagogy and Methodology became third place winners.

 The winning team was awarded with diplomas and souvenirs, second and third place winners, with diplomas and other teams with certificates.

All the photos are available in the gallery.

 On May 9,2019, 2nd and 3rd- year students of the specialty “Cartography and Cadastre” accompanied by P. Asilbekyan, Assistant of the Department of Tourism Management and Culturology visited the Meteorological and Aghstev River basin hydrological stations within the framework of “Natural Resources Cadastre and Monitoring” program.

 Members of the staff of the station (headed by E. Sayadyan) warmly welcomed the universitarians and introduced them the work done.

 The students took a part in the monitoring, got acquainted with existing equipment and its working principles.  They participated in the work of air temperature, wind direction and velocity determination.  The 2nd and 3rd- year students also got acquainted with the principles of sunbathing (heliogue) and other equipment available (damp, soil thermometers, automatic moisture-sensitive equipment, etc.).

 After the meteorological station monitoring the students got acquainted with the hydrological work of the station.  The head of the station O. Iskandaryan introduced the monitoring works carried out at the station (water outlet measurements, nivilization, determination of depletion of the river, the principles of registering, etc.).

 At the end of the visit, students conveyed their gratitude to the station management and staff for their warm reception and practical strengthening of their knowledge.

 Photos are available in the gallery.