One of the largest Ukrainian IT companies, NIX, has closed its educational initiative for schoolchildren, NIX Academy, which has been operating since 2019 and taught children programming and robotics. Why was NIX Academy closed and is it possible to restore it?
One of the largest Ukrainian IT companies, NIX, has closed its educational initiative for schoolchildren, NIX Academy, which has been operating since 2019 and taught children programming and robotics. Why was NIX Academy closed and is it possible to restore it?
NIX Academy closed on April 29, 2025, the company told Forbes Ukraine . During the school's existence, about 1,000 children graduated.
According to NIX CEO Igor Braginsky, the closure of NIX Academy is related to the destruction of the company's office in Kharkiv by a Russian bomb in 2022.
"I don't take responsibility for gathering children in classrooms. We tried to conduct classes online, but it doesn't work. The activity is focused on the physical presence of people in the classroom," he noted.
Braginsky added that at NIX Academy, “children learned to build robots,” which is impossible to do in online classes. The company’s educational initiative may yet return.
"I am an optimist. I think that after Ukraine's victory, we will turn everything back," said Igor Braginsky.
Recall that Ukrainians aged 18 and over can undergo intensive IT training using the peer-to-peer model within the framework of the kood/Zhytomyr program. The project is supported by Estonia as part of digital assistance to Ukraine, and the first intake will start in July.
