President Donald Ramotar said now is an exciting time in Guyana to be a young student as he celebrated the success of 64 graduating students at the 2014 convocation ceremony of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) School on the West Coast Demerara on Sunday evening.
In his address at the school’s 10th convocation ceremony, Principal, Swami Aksharananda said land has been acquired to build an elementary (primary) school to accommodate at the least 200 students. Efforts in this endeavour aim to realise SVN’s vision and values by inculcating them in children at an early age, he said, according to a report from the Government Info-rmation Agency (GINA).
Swami Aksharananda also revealed that SVN’s ambition is to have the first private STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) College in Guyana that focuses solely on providing education in STEM subjects. Once a student (either at the elementary or secondary level) is found to have an aptitude for these subjects, the aim is to immediately move them over to the college, he explained. He then lauded the school’s supporters for their contributions toward a
