BY Marissa V. Foster.

GUYANA’S representative for the Miss World 2019 pageant; Joylyn Conway, hosted another one of her STEM Girls Glow Camps. It was in collaboration with Developers Circle Guyana a group on Facebook. The camp was facilitated at the Berbice High School on September 28. Young girls from the New Amsterdam Technical Institute and the Berbice High school were the recipients of knowledge on the said day. The facilitators of the day’s activities were Joylyn, Bradley Downer from STEM Guyana and Samantha Sheoprashad from Developer Circles from Facebook.

Together, they highlighted the technology currently available to Guyana and the Caribbean- STEM and its importance to girls and women in our country and even the world at large. Samantha Sheoprashad is a well-known youth advocate in our country. She also spends her time using her platform to enlighten the young and old of Guyana’s population on an array of topics. STEM and girls in STEM are major parts of her work. Developers Circle was introduced by Sheoprashad and team in hopes of forming new conversations and analyzing options of STEM and technology. This initiative seeks to empower those interested in STEM and hopes to be a stepping stone for great technological advances in our country. Utilising her platform with youth, she linked the purposes of the girls in attendance, their ambitions and visions and how STEM can help to broaden and further strengthen them. In return, Samantha stressed that it not only helps the girls with their self-improvement, it can also help the community at large and inspire other young girls to dabble into STEM.

Bradley Downer also facilitated a session of building robotics with the girls in attendance. He stressed that teamwork is important and as such, the girls worked together to get the task done. Joylyn Conway shared her experiences in pageantry and Miss World and encouraged the girls to go for it if they ever feel the need to. The STEM Girls Glow Camp seeks to empower and enlighten young girls and women across Guyana on the importance of their role in it and the available resources we have at hand. This is one of many camps hosted by Miss World Guyana 2019 and it certainly won’t be the last.