Prešov self-governing region awards a Rusyn

On June 26th, 2009 the Prešov self-governing region (PSR) rewarded the most successful pedagogues and students of secondary schools within PSR for the first time. Together, 19 teachers from the whole region were awarded the Jan Amos Comenius plaque “Sophista pro regione – Teacher of Wisdom for the Region”. The “Lux Mentium – The Light of Cognition” plaque was presented to 16 students, among them Viera Sidorová, a Rusyn student of the Business Academy at the Secondary Vocational School in Snina, who was declared the most successful contestant in the state computer data processing competition.