94 People Participated in Galimzhan Yessenov Yessenov Launch Pad Competition

The Shakhmardan Yessenov Foundation charity has announced the completion of the Yessenov Launch Pad (YLP) competition. The initiative to establish the Yessenov Launch Pad program belongs to philanthropist and entrepreneur Galimzhan Yessenov.

94 people participated in the competition. The competition laureates receive the opportunity for additional training to develop soft or hard skills.

The organizers awarded 10 grants for additional training, worth up to 600,000 tenge. The program was launched in 2022.

Telzhan Myrzabekov, a 28-year-old employee of the M. Auezov South Kazakhstan University, says the grant will allow him to take an assessment center course from SHL Kazakhstan.

24-year-old Asmina Barkhandinova from the IT company QazCode stated that she intends to take an advanced online course in computer vision from DeepSchool.

Kurmet Danebek, a 23-year-old student at Nagasaki University (Japan), dreams of a certification course in healthcare management from the University Medical Center and the Kazakhstan Association of Healthcare Managers.

Another winner is 23-year-old Yermakhan Kurban, a student at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. He plans to spend the grant on learning Python programming. He is also interested in quantum computing.