THE Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD), in partnership with ExxonMobil Guyana, will on Monday launch its one-day annual Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Robotics Exhibition for children with disabilities.

The launch will be held at the Umana Yana, Kingston, Georgetown, with an opening address by President of ExxonMobil Guyana, Alistair Routledge. Over 150 children with disabilities from 10 Special Education Needs (SEN) schools across Guyana are expected to be in attendance.

Special Advisor to the Minister of Education Africo Selman; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Paloma Mohamed; and GCOPD Programme Manager Ganesh Singh will also be speaking at the event.

The exhibition is a one-day event where the children with disabilities will exhibit their innovative projects, proposing solutions to current problems; this will be done using robotic technology.

The programme was first launched in February 2020 with STEM clubs being established at the SEN schools in Region Four.

Currently, there are 10 STEM clubs in all the SEN schools across Guyana through which the children are exposed to robotic technology, basic coding, environmental awareness, and problem-solving skills, among other topics.

Since the launch of the programme, over 250 children with disabilities have benefited.