The Agency for Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialized Schools (PIIMA) under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan organized a presentation of the Oxiana Fellows Incubator program for students of subordinate schools.
The Oxiana Fellows Incubator program was founded by our compatriots Anna Rasulova and Alisher Saydalikhodjaev. The program aims to develop the talents and skills of young people and help them gain access to international development programs to become future leaders.
Alisher Saydalikhodjaev noted that within the framework of the program, participants will learn how to achieve their goals and more.
The program will help participants understand themselves and their goals, plan their work and identify ways to achieve goals.
The Oxiana Fellows Incubator program is expected to begin in February 2021. The program will be attended by students of the 9-10th grades of Presidential, creative and specialized schools. Participants will be required to set aside five hours of their time to work with the Oxiana Fellows Incubator program. They will take part in online conferences once a week.
- 2021 has been declared in Uzbekistan as the Year of Support for Youth and Health Promotion. The head of Uzbekistan set the task of supporting young people in realizing their potential and ideas. I think that the new initiative of Oxiana Fellows Incubator will help our children achieve their goals and become good people and specialists in the future, the director of the Agency Khilola Umarova said.
As a reminder, the Agency for Development of Presidential, Creative and Specialized Schools has launched a new project to support graduate students of subordinate educational institutions.
The project was developed jointly with the agency ‘s experts, Anna Rasulova and Alisher Saydalikhodjaev.
The project is aimed at developing the skills and knowledge of students of the Agency ‘s subordinate schools through mentoring and exchange of experience with successful compatriots with deep professional experience.
The project will consist of several components: personal development, admission advice to universities, incubation and acceleration of student projects, a school exchange program, etc.
As part of the first component, the mentors involved will help young people understand themselves and learn to identify their interests and strengths. Students learn to find intrinsic motivation and set personal goals. At the first stage, the project will be implemented in the Presidential Schools.
Anya Rasulova lives in San Francisco and built her career in Silicon Valley. She is currently a Senior Commercial Lead at Shopify, an innovative Canadian company revolutionizing the world of e-commerce technology. Prior to that, she had spent 6+ years at Google, leading all Google ‘s commerce deals and negotiations for North America. She also worked in Corporate Strategy for the CEO of eBay/PayPal as well as American Express, and spent 3 years in management consulting before Business school. She received a full scholarship to Brown University after graduating from Tashkent International School in 2004, where she was also a scholarship student. At Brown, she studied International Relations and Economics. She also received a Master of Business and Administrations (MBA) from The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). At both Brown and Wharton, she worked at the admissions office, and interviewed hundreds of applicants over the years.
Alisher Saydalikhodjayev is a Product Manager at WhatsApp (a Facebook Company) based in London. He spent the last 10 years of his professional career in the consumer technology field at WhatsApp, Zillow, and Microsoft. Prior to that, he was a management consultant, working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and McKinsey and Company. Alisher got his bachelor ‘s degree in mathematical economics from Pomona College - one of the top-ranking liberal arts colleges in the US. He received a full scholarship to study at Pomona after graduating from Tashkent International School in 2004, where he was also a scholarship student. While at Pomona, he worked at the admissions office and interviewed over 100 applicants.
