Growing the STEM from the roots
"We want to roll out a programme for these subjects here in Westbury," Amalia Hendricks.
Working Wards is an organisation which hosted a breakfast function at the African Digital Education Trust (ADET) Learning Centre in Westbury on December 6.
They are comprised of social entrepreneurs with a strong desire to bring about lasting change in community transformation through Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education, leadership development training and clean, sustainable living.
The group is looking to take up office at the ADET Learning Centre in Dowling Avenue, Westbury where they will be rolling out a programme designed to support STEM learning, fund facilitators, and bring awareness of career options in STEM fields.
The programme will all also see learners going out on field trips and visiting companies to better understand the scope and fields of work.
Young people cannot choose subjects that they don’t know exist. As such, the main focus in community transformation should be the education of young people especially STEM learning the way of the future.
“The function today was a corporate breakfast to which we invited a number of corporate clients in various STEM associations to show their support and potential donor funding. We are looking to create a learning centre of the STEM.
“We want to roll out a programme for these subjects here in Westbury,” said co-founder Amalia Hendricks.
The breakfast hosted representatives from government, education, science and engineering bodies, corporates and donors looking to invest in the community.
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According to Hendricks, her organisation will partner with ADET. The vision is for the partnership is for the development of a STEM learning centre of excellence so that learners from Grade R all the way to high school have a central place for information, research, guidance, education, and onward to bursaries into university and into a job, that is the vision.
“It’s also very exciting because I believe that this is historical, this is the beginning and as I said before, the prototype will be redesigned across the country,” said Hendricks.
The co-founder of Working Wards said that the only thing they were waiting on was funding after which the community will start benefiting from the programme.
She said, “I’m really excited about the potential that this community has to offer and I’m looking forward to us playing our part towards the transformation in young people’s lives.”
