By Karen Abrams, MBA
Co-Founder, STEMGuyana
The past few years have witnessed a significantly enhanced sensitivity among our young people, particularly school-age children, to the importance of information technology as an educational tool that will serve our country’s developmental mission. Young people have moved from a position of curiosity in relation to the wonders of information technology and what it can accomplish to familiarizing themselves with skills such as Coding, the discipline that enables the creation of computer software, apps and websites and might even allow those who master the discipline to create their own technology businesses. Critically, a knowledge of Coding enables an understanding of the technology that shapes the environment in which we live.
For the time being, however, the interest in Coding has to do with preparation for participation in a national competition designed to raise awareness of information technology to unprecedented levels amongst our young people. Truth be told, there is, these days, no more important a mission for Guyana’s education system than that of significantly raising its game insofar as the quality of education it delivers is concerned.
