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GIS – The Ministry of Education in collaboration with Advance Intellectual Methods (AIM) hosted its first Youth App Marathon (Yap-athon) workshop on mobile applications development for primary and secondary school students.
The workshop equips young people with the skills to build mobile applications for solving social issues.
Coordinator of the Yap-athon, Kentilla Louis, said the activity allows the students to be open minded when dealing with social issues.
“One of the things we like about this project is that it is aligned to the ministry’s goals in subject integration, so as much as you hear the word ‘app’ and you think of information technology, we are also integrating elements of the theatre arts in terms of the creativity and how we go about creating a concept, and we also incorporate health and family life education because that is going to be the content of the application.”
AIM Principal Consultant, Leslie Collymore, said it is the organization’s responsibility to give back to the community and to impact the lives of the youth.
“We decided to give these young people the chance to use technology, innovation, and critical thinking to come up with solutions to their problems,” she said. “Very often, we feel that adults are the ones ultimately responsible for solving all the ills in society, but these young people, these digital babies in the information age as I call them, are quite capable, from what we have experienced, of coming up with some logical ways to solve some of these issues.”
The Youth App Marathon will give students the opportunity to create mobile applications addressing challenges such as bullying, sexual abuse, drug abuse and life skills.
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