YFE hosts math career webinar in the Caribbean
By Tangerine Clarke
Jamaica-based Youths for
Excellence (YFE), recently
began its Math Career Webinar,
titled “Math Chattingz,”
that will continue to broadcast
live on national news outlets, in
Jamaica, Guyana, Grenada, Barbados,
and Trinidad & Tobago,
until June 5.
Jenine Shepherd, founder
and CEO, of the multi-national
international award winning
NGO, said the purpose of Math
Chattingz is to encourage primary
and secondary school
students in the Caribbean to
engage more with math and
math-related subjects, and
expose them to a greatly diversified
range of careers.
The event will be divided into
five segments: Arts & Design,
Environment, Health, Tech &
Engineering, and Entertainment.
For each segment, distinguished
guests will present
on a myriad of fields including
but not limited to architectural
design, food science, neuroscience,
astronautics engineering,
sports analytics, and film
production, said Shepherd.
Speakers are Vidia Roopchand,
principal research scientist
at Pfizer who was instrumental
in developing the COVID-19
vaccine, Kirk Anthony-Hamilton,
founder of the Infiniti Partnership
Caribbean L 18 ife, MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2021
Inc. and Tech Beach
Retreat, Camille Selvon Abrahams,
founder of Full Circle
Animation Studio, Daimian
Hines, founder of Hines Architecture
and Design and designer
of the new Jamaica House of
Parliament.
She noted, that between segments,
YFE will host a variety
of fun activities including the
Expert Explains Series, the Global
Problem Solver Series, the
Who Said This Feature and a
Games Night, which you definitely
cannot afford to miss!
Throughout the month there
will be opportunities for students
and educators to win prizes
such as food gift baskets,
free health checkups, phone
credit, school supplies, tablets
and more! Shepherd thanked
sponsors Digicel and Sagicor for
their support of this venture.
Prizes will be presented on June
18 at the various ministries of
education.
Shepherd said such a noteworthy
event has garnered the
interest of the ministries of
education in the five participating
territories and as such,
the webinar will feature keynote
addresses from the ministers
of education and the ministers
of health, culture and development
within each country.
Prime Minister Ralph Gonzales
of St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
Minister Fayval Williams
and Minister Olivia Grange of
Jamaica, Minister Nyan Gadsby-
Dolly of Trinidad and Tobago
and Minister Santia Bradshaw
of Barbados are among the government
officials slated to speak
at this forum.
Additionally, the United
Nations has endorsed this initiative
with Denise Antonio, the
United Nations Development
Program Resident Representative
for Jamaica, Belize, Bermuda,
Cayman Islands, the Bahamas
and the Turks and Caicos
Islands, being scheduled to
speak at the opening Ceremony.
Youths for Excellence is a
registered charity for the holistic
development of underserved
youth, founded in 2015 by President
and Board Co-Chair Jénine
Shepherd, when she was 17
years of age because she recognized
the effects of social and
economic deprivation on young
children at schools in Jamaica.
Since its inception, YFE has
championed a holistic method
of educational intervention. The
organization has assisted children
to receive not only textbooks
but also tablets, health
check-ups, travel passes, lunch
passes, and resources for their
parents to facilitate employment.
YFE earned recognition from
the Prime Minister Office via a
Prime Minister’s Youth Award
for Nation Building in 2018 and
has maintained the support
of his office by being allowed
to host its inaugural Back to
School Event there in 2019.
24 corporate and government
agencies signed on to support
the event, Digicel, JUTC, RJR
and GraceKennedy amongst
them.
Founder and CEO of Youth for Excellence, Jenine Shepherd
surrounded by students of Cockburn Garden Primary
School, after a charity event in Jamaica. Youth for Excellence
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