Over 70 entrants from various schools around the country and the region will be hoping to come out on top at the finals of the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge competition, which begins today although last year’s winning project still has not gone anywhere.
This year the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, the Caribbean Science Foundation and Sagicor Life Inc. has once again made a special effort towards launching the competition. However, national participation was seen from only regions 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9. The finals will be held today and tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, where the projects will be displayed.
This year’s projects include biological control for Chikungunya, water purification systems, fast food fuel, harnessing rain water, making paper from rice straw, use of piezoelectricity, green spaces for a sustainable future and an automated sprinkler system.
In November, each country hosts a national competition to select its national winning team that will participate in the regional competition in Florida in July 2015 and the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathema-tics (STEM) Ambassador Programme.
The competition is aimed at secondary/high school and home-schooled students between the ages of 11 and 16,
