ROUGHLY 400 students, teachers and parents from eight educational institutions in the Bluefields area of Westmoreland are participating in an information technology project aimed at enhancing computer literacy and promoting sustainable commu-nity development.
The project, which celebrates its first anniversary this week, is the brainchild of the Bluefields People's Community Association (BPCA), which is being sponsored by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ), the Scientific Research Council and the Bluefields Trust, a United Kingdom-based charity organisation.
During a well-supported open day held on Tuesday at the BPCA headquarters, four schools participated in two keenly contested quiz competitions, where they were tested on what they had learnt during the year.
Bluefields Early Childhood Institute won the first match, defeating Whitehouse Basic School by one point and in the process gaining the P.J. Patterson trophy. In the second match, Ferris Primary defeated Mearns-ville All-Age School to win the Bob Owens Trophy.
According to chairman and chief executive officer of the BPCA, Keith Wedderburn, the inter-school quiz competition was geared towards complementing and enhancing the school curriculum.
"Even though the project is information technology-based, the quiz competition comprised general school work such as English, mathematics, social studies, tourism, science, general knowledge, the environment and information technology. The level of participation from these students showed the impact the computer learning had on them and how much they had acquired over the period," he stated.
