✨ New Joint Center | CTEP Partners with Nokor Thom High School to Bring Coding Education to Rural Students ✨
In under-resourced rural areas, children share the same desire to learn and transform their futures.
Nokor Thom High School, located in the Angkor Archaeological Park, has only 4 classes and 164 students due to new high school upgrade. Recently, the new high school get support from the community to stabilize and grow—but funding and equipment challenges remain.
Despite this, the school is committed to expanding opportunities for students and actively seeks support to introduce future-ready education.
In 2018, CTEP first connected with the school through an education partner and donated sewing machines for vocational classes. During COVID-19, students even worked with CTEP to produce cloth masks for nearby villages—a testament to community spirit and collaboration.
In June 2025, during Cambodia’s National TVET Day, the principal was inspired by CTEP students’ coding projects and proposed a partnership to introduce programming classes at the school.
This initiative supports the Ministry of Education’s ICT integration policy and aims to cultivate:
Logical thinking & problem-solving
Creativity & entrepreneurship
Future readiness for AI, software, robotics & more
To make this vision a reality, CTEP launched the following:
25 laptops and demo teaching materials
On-site coding trainer to teach and build teacher capacity
Co-development of advanced, project-based coding curriculum
A pilot class has already started, and full implementation is set for the next academic term. Many students are coding for the first time and have already built simple interactive projects! Their parents and the local community are highly supportive and eager to contribute further resources.
This classroom is more than just a room with computers—it’s a doorway to the world. 
We thank Nokor Thom High School for its vision, and all our supporters for standing with us in empowering rural youth. With a growing student body, CTEP is committed to sustaining and expanding this work—because this is only the beginning. We are also very grateful to ASUS - Empowering People in Need program, which has enabled the continued promotion of computer education in remote rural areas of Cambodia.