In a significant development for Science, Know-how, Engineering and Arithmetic (STEM) training, the Telecel DigiTech Academy has expanded to 13 colleges in 5 areas throughout the nation.
The programme, which runs alongside the usual faculty curriculum, is designed to virtually immerse college students into the world of digital expertise, with a particular deal with Synthetic Intelligence (AI), coding and programming.
The enlargement follows the success of the pilot run final educational time period at Ho’s St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Junior Excessive Faculty within the Volta Area, which earned robust constructive suggestions from each college students and educators.
The official roll-out occasion of the prolonged programme, which happened on the Tema Neighborhood 8 No. 3 Major and Junior Excessive Faculty, introduced collectively the Tema Metropolitan Training Director, pupils from the collaborating colleges, Faculty Enchancment Assist Officers (SISO), lecturers and implementing companion, Mingo Basis.
Talking on the occasion, Mrs Bernice Ofori, the Tema Metropolitan Director of Training, stated the DigiTech Academy was a game-changer for STEM training and a daring step that feeds into the imaginative and prescient of town to develop into a hub of innovation.
“The sensible supply of the Telecel Digitech Academy will bridge the hole between theoretical data and its real-life application. I encourage each pupil benefiting from this studying opportunity to embrace it with enthusiasm, dedication and most significantly, apply these abilities to unravel issues and thrive within the digital financial system in future,” Mrs Ofori added.
The Telecel DigiTech professionalgramme combines weekly in-person instruction and digital studying within the colleges’ laptop labs, whereas offering college students with hands-on expertise in fields like coding, AI, and knowledge science.
Telecel Ghana Basis additionally handed over cutting-edge coding and robotics kits to all of the participating colleges for the programme.
Head of Basis, Sustainability and Exterior Communications at Telecel Ghana, Rita Agyeiwaa Rockson, said that the aim of Digitech Academy was to degree the enjoying area by equipping pupils with STEM abilities and digital capabilities to compete with their counterparts globally on an equal scale.
“With the expanded DigiTech programme, we’re giving these younger college students the sources and data to develop into the subsequent technology of innovators and problem solvers. The 13 colleges had been chosen from 5 areas in consultation with the assorted municipal training directorates and help from the Nationwide STEM centre. Our purpose is to affect pupils throughout the 16 areas of Ghana with this programme,” she elaborated.
After the occasion, among the college students joined an introductory lesson on AI within the laptop lab of Archbishop Andoh Roman Catholic Faculty in Tema, with an teacher demonstrating how digital instruments and sources might be built-in into the DigiTech Academy studying expertise.
For Elijah Osei, a second-year junior highschool pupil of Tema Comm. 8 No. 3 Faculty, he stated the educational expertise would give him the prospect to discover his curiosity for expertise.
“A variety of the issues we study in I.T. should not practiced so these weekly classes will enhance our sensible understanding of digital expertise and the alternatives in that area. I can’t wait to see the place it leads,” he stated.
With its deal with hands-on studying, innovation, and real-world abilities, Telecel’s Digitech Academy is ready to equip college students with the digital abilities with a purpose to compete globally and excel in an more and more technology-driven world.
BY TIMES REPORTER
