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STEM education is an essential component of modern-day education, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recognizes the importance of providing access to STEM education to young people in Latin America and the Caribbean. Recently, IDB representatives visited St. Pius primary school in Guyana to witness the Learning Pods program, a partnership program between STEMGuyana and […]

Exciting news! Digicel Guyana, has just made a generous contribution to the local STEM education community. As part of their ongoing commitment to empowering young people, Digicel has donated three laptops to STEM Clubs in Region 5. The impact of this donation will be significant, as around 30 budding students from the Mahaicony Secondary STEM […]

Parents are a child’s first teacher, and involvement in their children’s learning is critical to their success. The evidence is consistent, and convincing: families have a major influence on their children’s achievement in school and through life. When schools, families, and community groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, […]

By Karen Abrams, MBA, EdD ’25 The educational use of coding began in the 1960s with the usage of the Logo programming language. A considerable amount of literature states that the skills required of a 21st century individual are creative thinking, problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and cooperation skills. The innovative solutions that technology tools like […]

STEMGuyana yesterday launched an ambitious program to transfer website development and journalism skills to young students in their Learning Pods program across the country.  The test program will launch in 5 current Learning Pods — Queenstown, Port Kaituma, Lake Mainstay, Lima Sands and Aurora.  5 students from each of these pods will be trained to […]

STEM is an acronym (each letter represents a word) that represents the words Science, Technology, Engineering, Math.  Now if we are to believe most people in our society, they would say that Science and Math are difficult subjects and only the ‘bright’ kids do well in those subjects. STEMGuyana leaders disagree with those beliefs! The […]

The experts are still debating exactly how to define family engagement–a term historically called parental involvement.  The change in terms reflect a deeper understanding of the stakeholders involved in contributing to successful academic outcomes for students in the K-12 school system. The shift in language is more inclusive and pushes us to consider the variation […]

Children in the Lima Sands and West Canje communities are happy to be a part of two Learning pods identified as outstanding for the month of July, 2022.  The Learning Pod program is an after-school program which provides high quality learning instruction-including technology integrated Maths, English, Science & Technology lesson plans based on the Ministry […]

This month, STEMGuyana will celebrate some of our special young people who continue to navigate the path of STEM education having joined STEMGuyana’s STEM club program over the course of the past 5 years.  Lucas Simpson is one such young man, who joined STEMGuyana’s Sports Hall STEM club in 2019 and who is today a […]

Children in the Paradise and Golden Grove communities are happy to be a part of two Learning pods identified as outstanding for the month of April, 2022.  The Learning Pod program is an after-school program which provides high quality learning instruction-including technology integrated Maths, English, Science & Technology lesson plans based on the Ministry of […]