High school principals from across the country gathered last week to take part in a sensitization workshop on the Sagicor Visionary Challenge - which is a science competition for high school students throughout the Caribbean.
It is a competition where students get to come up with ideas to make their school and community more sustainable using science, technology, engineering and math. Facilitator of the workshop Doctor Maya Trotz spoke to us more about the competition.
Doctor Maya Trotz
"It's something that we are doing with Sagicor, the Caribbean Science Foundation and the Caribbean Examinations Council."
Reporter
"Are there any particular topics?"
Doctor Maya Trotz
"Anything goes. It's up to the creativity of students; you say what would you do to make your school cleaner or healthier or more fun; make you learn more, make you want to stay in school and so better and then they come back with ideas and things that they can do and they would have to show how they would use science and technology, engineering and math to solve that and to do it in such a way that they engage the rest of the students or they have community participation. Will they check to see that's its feasible. Did they have an implementation plan? Someone might be interesting in supporting this project that they have this idea for? Its regional but we also have a national competition where we want every high school to have at least one team. For this first year we expect high schools to have many teams. We are trying to get that excitement with the most teachers and students and we are going to have a national competition - a national fair which would be like a national science fair."
After the National completion is completed, the winners will move on to the regional science competition to take part with students from across the Caribbean.
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