Gardina Allen shares her excitement as she assembles her group’s robot with Shelly-Ann O’Connor, Operations & Projects Coordinator, Flow Foundation. Sharing the moment are Allen’s teammates (from left) Sanaa Downer, Anaia Downer and Shaunalya Johnson, while Shanese Watson, Managing Director, Young Scholars Educational Ltd, looks on. Young Scholars Educational Ltd is on a mission to bridge the digital divide in the world of robotics and coding for Jamaican youths. Seventy students from Kingston, Manchester, Clarendon and Montego Bay participated in the hybrid robotics and coding summer camp, which was powered by the Flow Foundation. The camp was staged over a four-week period with the aim of improving their knowledge base in robotics, coding and upskilling in using virtual reality technology. Speaking on her motivation for staging the camp, Shanese Watson, Managing Director, Young Scholars Educational Ltd, shared, “This is a project that is very important to me because of what it represents for the future of our young people. I want them to develop skills way beyond just using technology for social media. Globally, artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies are advancing rapidly, and currently, we are not prepared as our students have limited exposure to this field. “There […]
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