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Rima Asryan, “SMART helped me listen to my heart and dream freely.”

“Dance, drawing, knitting, piano, the Armath club, and English.” This was just the incomplete list of interests for 16-year-old Rima Asryan from Odzun before attending the SMART Center.

From Medovka to SMART: Misak Martirosyan Road to…

‘Stadiodrom, Pierre de Coubertin, Scapula levator’ — if you don’t know which of these is a human muscle, which the term for a running distance, and which is the name of the founder of the modern Olympic Games, then you definitely haven’t been in the SMART Center’s virtual reality (VR) fitness class with instructor Misak Martirosyan.

Erik Matinyan: From SMART Student to SMART Colleague

When 13-year old Erik Matinyan first joined the Programming course at the SMART Center, he had no idea that he would one day be part of the programming team for the SMART Center’s online education management platform’s (smartcitizen.am).

A Future Worth Belonging To: Anna and Noubar Afeyan’s Mission in Armenia

This month, we’re honored to share a spotlight feature on Noubar and Anna Afeyan, long-time friends of COAF whose unwavering support has had a profound impact on the children of rural Armenia.

Boarding Call for Direct Flight from Karakert CFC to Dalarik School

If you ask 5-year old Nare, a graduate of the Karakert Child and Family Center, why she attended the center for two years, she will answer without hesitation and to the point: “because it’s interesting at the center.” The details will come in enthusiastically immediately after, about how they would exercise, paint, put on a puppet show, and make craft animals out of different materials.

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