2 weeks ago, we showed you how a group of students from St. John's College, and St. Martin De Porres Primary were learning to build and program robots.
It's part of the Clavius project where volunteers from the St. Louis University High School came to Belize to show these kids how they could become inventors of the latest, cutting edge technology.
Well, for the last 10 days, children of the Pickstock and Lake I areas who use the Samuel Haynes Institute of Learning, were given the same opportunity.
Its was organized by a group of Belizean Americans living in Los Angeles who make up the Consortium for Belizean Development. The idea was that these children from low income families should be given the opportunity to explore the technology, and see how they could become producers, instead of consumers of that technology.
We stopped by and spoke with the organizer, and one of the participants:
The organizers tell us that for a 2-week class like this one, Americans kids pay an average of $800 US. They tell us that it was important for the Consortium that this was provided to the children free of cost. They say that the reception from the children participating is just as good as they were hoping for.
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