89 complete First Lady’s ICT, STEM robotics workshops

A total of 89 persons on Monday graduated, after successfully completing four weeks of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training and a two-day STEM robotics workshop hosted by First Lady, Sandra Granger in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam).

Thirty-seven persons are now equipped with ICT skills, while 36 students of the CV Nunes Primary School and 16 youths of the Henrietta Community Group have basic knowledge in STEM robotics.
At the simple ceremony held in the auditorium of the Anna Regina Secondary School, Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast, the First Lady charged the graduates to use their newly acquired skills to contribute to the development of agriculture within their region.
“You can be the ones who are developing new things for the growth of your community. You can be looking at your drainage and irrigation, your crops and all the ways that you can use technology to help our farmers…Essequibo Coast has great agricultural potential, so think about where you can be in that chain, you can help your families, whether you’re in a farming community, selling, agro-processing or even manufacturing; making jams and jellies, all these things are profit-making and you can do it,” Mrs Granger said.
The ICT workshop started on January 13 and required students to complete 158 hours of training, while the two-day STEM robotics workshop was held on February 3 and 6, 2020 respectively, at State House, Anna Regina.
Regional Executive Officer, Denis Jaikaran in congratulating the graduates, pledged that the region under his management will continue to support the development of its youth and will build on the success of the recently concluded training. He encouraged the participants to consider seriously, the next steps of their personal development.
“You are now certified and you can take that to the world of work and to the next stage of your lives. You have to think very seriously about where you go from here… you are now fit to go into the world of work or to be able to establish as a corporate body, your own businesses, so this training would have been very important to you,” Jaikaran said.
The pieces of training were a collaborative effort between the Board of Industrial Training (BIT) and the office of the First Lady. Robotics kits were presented to each of the groups in an effort to allow them to practice and expand their skill set.