SPISE (Student Programme for Innovation in Science and Engineering) recently concluded this year’s offering after challenging students on robotics and other areas.
A release from the Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF) said that the programme is offered for 4 weeks each summer by the CSF to the brightest 16-18 year old students interested in careers in science and engineering.
The release said that this year, 18 students from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago were chosen from 66 applicants. The programme was conducted using the facilities of the UWI, Barbados, and the students were challenged with classes that included university-level calculus, physics, biochemistry, entrepreneurship and Mandarin, and hands-on projects in under-water robotics and renewable energy/electronics, the release said.
SPISE is intended to nurture the next generation of technology entrepreneurs in the Caribbean, in an effort to assist with the economic developmental issues facing the region, the release said. SPISE not only achieves this through the subjects offered, but also through career seminars which
