Tony Sewell - JUNIOR DOWIE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
INTERVIEWS ARE being conducted today for the Generating Genius schoolboy scientific education programme. Seventy applicants have been reduced to a short-list of 15 boys aged 11 to 12 who are being interviewed at the University of West Indies (UWI) Mona Visitors' Lodge where the 10 participants will be selected.
The 10 successful candidates will be resident for four weeks each summer for five years (July 24 to August 20 this year) at the Mona campus, together with 10 black British schoolchildren of the same age.
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The Jamaican boys will also be invited back to the campus for several weekends each year to further assist their study.
The aim of the programme is to develop the boys into potential scientists and reverse patterns of under-achievement among Jamaican boys and black British boys.
Developed by British-Jamaican educator Dr. Tony Sewell, Generating Genius is being sponsored in its initial year by the Jamaica National Building Society, and the Gleaner Company Limited, through its various publications, including the U.K.-based Voice newspaper, in partnership with the University of the West Indies, Mona campus.
