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    AGBU Press Office
    55 East 59th Street
    New York, NY 10022-1112
    Phone: 212.319.6383, x118
    Fax: 212.319.6507
    Email: [email protected]
    Website: www.agbu.org

    PRESS RELEASE

    Monday, October 13, 2008

    AGBU Virtual College Presented To Armenian Public

    On Sunday, September 28, 2008, hundreds of individuals gathered in
    Yerevan, Armenia's Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall to watch the
    presentation of AGBU's highly anticipated educational resource, the AGBU
    Armenian Virtual College (AVC), which is slated to launch in January
    2009.

    The AVC presentation was attended by various high-ranking members of the
    Armenian government, including Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Education
    and Science Minister Spartak Seyranian, Culture Minister Hasmik
    Poghossian, AGBU President Berge Setrakian, and various AGBU donors,
    including London-based Armenian benefactor Vatche Manoukian,
    American-Armenian philanthropist Albert Boyadjian, and members of the
    AGBU Central Board Vasken Yacoubian and Ruben Keshishian. The event was
    also attended by a host of local Armenian intellectuals and academics
    with a particular interest in scientific and educational innovation.

    The AVC presentation was jointly organized by AGBU and Public Television
    of Armenia and the event was hosted by commentator and spokesman Artak
    Alexanian. During various breaks in the evening's presentation, audience
    members were treated to performances by various renowned Armenian pop
    stars, including Lilit Pipoyan, Arsen Grikorian, Hayko, Shushan
    Petrossian and the Empiray rock group.

    AVC Coordinator and AGBU Silicon Valley Chairman Yervant Zorian was on
    hand to make an extensive presentation about the online program about
    its significance for AGBU's educational mission.

    AVC is an Internet-based accredited distance learning program that aims
    to facilitate Armenian studies through new technologies. AVC provides
    Armenian courses in history, language and culture (architecture,
    geography, fine arts and music) and allows participating students to
    choose from six languages of instruction: Western and Eastern Armenian,
    English, Russian, French and Spanish. AVC will tailor lessons to suit
    each student's needs, thus ensuring that Armenians from around the
    world, regardless of their age, country of residence or knowledge level,
    will benefit from the resource.

    During the presentation, the audience was treated to live online chats
    with potential AVC students in Moscow, San Francisco and Damascus, which
    demonstrated the program's remarkable potential to serve the global
    Armenian community.

    In addition to AGBU's extensive support of AVC, the program was also
    made possible through the involvement of computer programmers and
    Internet specialists from Yerevan State University and the National
    Academy of Sciences of Armenia. For more information about AVC, please
    visit www.agbu.org/armenianvirtualcollege.

    Established in 1906, AGBU (www.agbu.org) is the world's largest
    non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU
    preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through
    educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the
    lives of some 400,000 Armenians on six continents.
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