Young Inventors and Innovators Awarded
By: , May 10, 2023
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Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Charah Watson (right), makes a presentation to the team from Brown’s Town High School in St. Ann, at the awards ceremony for the 2022/2023 Young Inventors and Innovators Competition (YIIC), held on May 2 at the SRC’s Hope Gardens headquarters in St. Andrew. From left are Teachers, Alex Holmes and Molly Coombs and students Leroy Gallimore and Tamelia Thompson.
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Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Charah Watson (right), makes a presentation to teacher at the Seaview Gardens Primary School in Kingston, Racquel Rose (left) and students Joewayne Brown (second left) and Jaidan Page. Occasion was the awards ceremony for the 2022/2023 Young Inventors and Innovators Competition (YIIC), held on May 2 at the SRC’s Hope Gardens headquarters in St. Andrew.The Full Story
More than 20 students have been recognised for their innovative entries in the 2022/2023 Young Inventors and Innovators Competition (YIIC).
They were recognised at an awards ceremony held on May 2 at the Scientific Research Council (SRC) Hope Gardens headquarters in St. Andrew.
Hosted annually by the SRC, the YIIC helps students to develop an appreciation of key scientific and technological principles and processes.
During the 2022/2023 staging, under the theme ‘Youth-centred Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development’, students across the island were able to pitch their ideas to tackle some of Jamaica’s greatest challenges in health and infectious diseases, energy and environmental sustainability, digitisation and mobile technology, and agriculture and food.
Speaking with JIS News, Executive Director of the SRC, Dr. Charah Watson, said YIIC is one of several initiatives the Council has undertaken to engender a culture of innovation in Jamaica, especially among the youth.
“Through YIIC, we would have piqued the students’ interest in not just creating solutions but also in entrepreneurship, to ensure they are also thinking of how to their get ideas to market,” she said.
The competition is open to students in primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions, who are encouraged to develop innovative solutions of some of the nation’s problems and are assisted to commercialise their ideas.
In addition to the team at the SRC, the participants were supported by science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ambassadors.