Jamaica’s Promise – SRC Essay, Oratory, Poster & Performing Arts Competition

Primary, Secondary, and tertiary school students copped prizes at the 2023 Scientific Research Council (SRC) Essay Oratory, Poster, and Preforming Arts competition (EOPP) awards ceremony held recently at the at the Stella Maris Church Hall in Kingston. This year’s competition was held under the theme “Youth Have the Power” and according to the Science & Technology Education Unit Coordinator, Kavelle Hylton, the competition is conceptualized to support the SRC’s effort to promote science, technology, and innovation among young people

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Jamaica’s Promise – Female Youth Ambassador for the Portland 4-H Clubs

Seventeen-year-old Chris-Ann Witter, was named Female Youth Ambassador for the Portland 4-H Club at the Portland Parish Achievement Day Expo 2023, held recently at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE).  Chris-Ann, who is currently a student at Port Antonio High School, says she is immensely grateful for this achievement given the criteria she had to fulfill.

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Jamaica’s Promise – FLOW Girls in ICT Expo

Over 200 girls from 18 high schools island wide, many of whom had never experienced coding before, participated in Flow Jamaica’s 2023 Girls in ICT Day Expo on April 27.  Held under the theme, “Digital skills for life”, the expo allowed the young women to network with female Information, communication Technology (ICT) industry professionals.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Central High School’s USF ICT Club

The Universal Service Fund (USF) recently launched its first Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Club for high schools at Central High School in Clarendon. The club aims to promote digital literacy and help bridge the digital divide among Jamaica’s youth.

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Jamaica’s Promise – CPFSA CSEC Awards Top Girl

Eighteen-year-old Teana Fuller, a former ward of the state and lower sixth form student at St. Hugh’s High School, was earlier this year named the top girl for the Southeast Region of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) 11th annual Educational Achievement Awards Ceremony.  She was awarded for her outstanding performance in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Maggotty High School’s 800m Champs Gold Medalists

St. Elizabeth based, Maggotty High School sent a team of 19 students – 8 boys and 11 girls to the 2023 staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships from March 28 to April 1. The team gave the school its best placing to date, finishing 9th with a total of 46 points.  Among the strong performances delivered, the top two were delivered by Jayden Brown and Yoshane Bowen who both bagged gold medals in their 800m races at the championships.

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Jamaica’s Promise – #TeenTechJa Conference

Jamaica’s first Technology Conference for Teens was held on Wednesday, April 5, at the Wolmer’s Boys’ School in Kingston under the theme ‘The Future is Here! Are You Ready?’. The event, dubbed #TeenTechJa was hosted by EduHub Company Limited, with the endorsement of the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY). It targeted students from grades nine to 13 across the island, with the goal of exposing them to new and emerging technologies.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Tarrant High School Career Day

Students of Tarrant High School in Kingston were given the opportunity to engage with industry professionals from media and communications, agriculture, Information Technology, security, entrepreneurship, among others fields during a career day event on Thursday, March 30.  The day’s activities were held under the theme “conquering your future through career development”.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Math and Money Challenge

Local tech company, Natty Platforms Limited, will be introducing approximately 240 students from three communities in the Corporate Area and St. Catherine, to the basics of investing and money management through a series of game-based financial literacy workshops dubbed the ‘Math and Money Challenge’.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Top CAPE Humanities Performer

Nineteen-year-old Dora Watt was among nine high school awardees in Jamaica who were recently awarded by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) for outstanding academic performance in the region.  Watt was awarded Top CAPE Humanities student after attaining passes of grades ones and twos in ten units of CAPE.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Top CSEC/CAPE Students Receive Awards

The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) awarded nine students from high schools across the island who got the highest grades in 2022 sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE).  The students were given their awards at a ceremony held at the Ministry of Education and Youth’s head office in Kingston on Thursday, February 09.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Heart Foundation ‘Out of Our Schools’ Campaign

On Thursday February 09 the Heart Foundation of Jamaica launched its ‘Out of Our Schools’ Mass Media Campaign, in support of Phase 1 of the recently approved School Nutrition Policy which is being spearheaded by the Ministry of Health and Wellness in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Over 30 York Castle Students Pass Driver’s Test

York Castle High School partnered with the HEART NSTA Trust to prepare a Driving Fundamentals Curriculum that engaged eligible senior students to learn about the rules of the road.  With the support and partnership of the Island Traffic Authority, Road Safety Unit Authority in the Ministry of Transport and Mining, over 30 students at York Castle High were given the opportunity to sit the road code examination on Friday January 27 as a group to acquire their provisional licenses.

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Jamaica’s Promise – Kids in Tech Forum

The Ministry of Education and Youth in collaboration with the Ministry of National Security’s Citizen Security Secretariat through its 25/34 Inter-ministerial school strategy, recently engaged students from nine high schools located in Zones of Special Operations in a Kids in Tech – STEM Forum at the Denham Town High School on Tuesday, January 10.

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