THE Education Ministry will be hosting its Science and Technology Fair and Symposium tomorrow, aimed at stimulating students’ interest in those subjects.
It is part of the Education Month 2011 agenda and targets students throughout the country, especially from senior secondary schools, and will be held at the Education Ministry Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds will be delivering the feature address at the opening ceremony and Minister with the portfolio, Shaik Baksh, is the other speaker.
The event will feature 55 booths from both the private and public sectors  and  the one hour opening ceremony, which begins at 09:00 hrs,  would be followed by a science and technology symposium at 11:00 hrs,  with presentations from prominent academics in the fields.
Education Month is being observed under the theme ‘Transforming Guyana through Science and Technology in Education.’
ICT is a major plank of the Ministry’s 2008-2013 Education Strategic Plan, and the visionary documentation places significant attention on the knowledge deepening process and the realisation of government’s vision to bridge the digital divide.
In keeping with the Education Ministry’s theme, this year, some 2,000 teachers across the country will be trained to use the computer as a teaching and learning tool, and under the World Bank US$4.2M funded Teacher Reform Project. (Whitney Persaud)