Racunarska gimnazija Smart Novi Sad (Serbia)
Smart High School is an accredited private school with two majors. The first – for students with special abilities for computing and informatics and the second – basic gymasia. In the school, we have 220 students, 35 employees. The majority are students learning programming. Our students achieve success, especially at HACKATONS in programming, where in the competition of all high schools of the Republic of Serbia, in many past years, they have won one of the first three places or are in the first 10. We are a gymnasium that, in addition to education, bases its work on the development of students’ social skills. All students and teachers use laptops at home and at school, everyone is networked at school, the material itself is also used online. With the emergence of Covid-19, the decisions of the Ministry of Education that children have been listening to classes online for days, we see the consequences precisely in the self-confidence of children of this age, but also of new generations who are just coming to our school.
The school actively participates with state institutions, but also with other partners, from the University of Novi Sad. Our students actively have extracurricular activities throughout the year, visits to other faculties, but also cultural and artistic institutions, and spot events, etc. museums, theaters, cinemas, sports competitions, but also visits to faculties as well as faculties come to us. At the end of both semesters, students give a descriptive evaluation of the work of each teacher and employee, but the teachers also give a descriptive opinion on the work of the students, which both students and parents receive. The state educational inspection regularly checks the work of the school once a year.
