| Summit Seeks To Harness Youth Creativity |
| Thu, September 5, 2024 |
| tudents from different schools across the country met at the House of culture this morning for the Annual Creative Youth Summit, giving youths a platform to voice their ideas and opinions... |
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Creative Youth Ideas Summit
Students from different schools across the country met at the House of culture this morning for the Annual Creative Youth Summit, giving youths a platform to voice their ideas and opinions. Jomarie Lanza stopped by:
The theme for this year's Creative Youth Ideas Summit is "Culture and Innovation", giving students a platform to share their ideas and network with other students from other schools. The Minister of Education says it is important to provide youths with a platform to voice their concerns and learn how they can apply and put these ideas to work.
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
"Today is a very exciting event on the September celebrations calendar for me, the Creative Youth Ideas Summit. We are very proud of this event. It's something we started 4 years ago; this is the 4th year and I am very glad that the commission embraced it. I'd like to take ownership of this event because I felt, you know, when I became the chairman four years ago one of the deficiencies I saw was that we were not including young people enough in terms of the September celebrations discussion. And so I brought that idea to the commission of having a youth summit and giving young people a space where they could talk about their priorities, their interests, their concerns about our country each year. And so I am very happy that the commission embraced the idea. I'm very happy that our Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology embraced that idea and ran with it. So it's a fantastic event; every year we bring young people together from all over the country, our students in particular, to have a dialogue about issues of concern to them. This year they chose the theme 'Culture and Innovation' and, you know"
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