Science and Technology?
Over the last two days the Barbados National Science Council has been staging the Sci-Tech Expo. The expo is usually held every two years and gives schools, businesses and organisation an oportunity to showcase their science and technology offerings, products, discoveries, expirements and systems.
Well it appears that the economic recession has hit the expo too! The number of schools with booths has significantly reduced and there is no private sector presence. A great pity indeed. Were it not for the Barbados Community College, UWI CEREMES, Barbados Police Force Ferensic Science Unit, CXC, Project Discovery and a few others, the Expo may well have not happened this year. Is it that poor.
And what about the attendance of students, one of the main target audience of the Expo? Where are they? Students only came in by the handfuls on the days so far, and with today and tomorrow being weekend days, attendance may be more dismal. And then we hear talk about students not interested in Science. This is where the interest in such things start. Let’s hope that in the future the planners work more closely with stakeholders to ensure better results.
