On October 17, 2008, the IDEA Center in Kemerovo, based in the Children’s and Youth Environmental Parliament, held a presentation of the IDEA Project for three reporters from regional newspapers and fourteen students volunteering with Reflection, a non-profit youth association supported by the Kusnetsk Basin Anti-Drug and AIDS-Prevention Charity Foundation. The event also included a certificate award ceremony where Zhanna Berg, the director of the charity foundation, received her IDEA certificate.

The participants were especially interested in the upcoming course in Web Design Fundamentals scheduled for December 2008, and after the presentation four of them signed up for the course and two more asked for the course’s instructional materials to study them independently. Kusnetsk Basin Anti-Drug and AIDS-Prevention Charity Foundation has its own website, so the volunteers are hoping to use their new knowledge and skills for its further development and maintenance.