Camp challenges children to use tech to tackle pressing issues – Jamaica Gleaner
Although she has not settled on a profession path simply but, 16-yr-previous Joanna White* is using the IGT Coding and Robotics Rock! Camp to immerse herself deeper Inside the broad-ranging area of know-how.
“It has taught me Tons So far, And that i now know that robots can do superior factors,” she tprevious The Gleaner shortly after the camp’s opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Joanna Is Amongst The numerous Jamaicans among 36 particular persons from seven Caribbean nations collaborating In the summer timetime programme, Which might Think about technological improvements In a place to addressing social and environmental factors and fuelling sustainable progress Contained in the area.
The camp is funded by Worldbroad Recreation Technology (IGT), in collaboration with Mona GeoInformatics Institute (MGI), and Shall be held over two weeks from July 20 to 29 and from August 15 to 26 beneath the theme ‘Youth Coding for a Sustainable Caribbean’.
The Jamaican particular persons have been chosen from the SOS Youngsters’s Village in Stony Hill, St Andrew; Sunbeam Youngsters’s House in Old Harbour, St Catherine; the Spring Village Enchancment Basis; the Mustard Seed Communities; and The women’s Centre of Jamaica.
IGT Caribbean Regional Director Brendan Hames said the camp goals to equip youth with marketable programming expertise.
“There is a rising exactisation among educators that educating coding and robotics to children and youth will give them useful expertise For all times and expose them to revolutionary makes use of of know-how,” said Hames.
He defined that given the success of the 2021 camp, and To raised obtain the goals of this yr’s programme, IGT and MGI have decided to ship the teaching at two ranges – the cohort from final yr’s camp, Collectively with newcomers …….