St. Joseph RC Primary School Learning Robotic Through FIFA Donation

Saint Joseph RC Primary School is on a mission to educate the next generation of STEAM experts. Today, the school received forty robotics kits and other supplies from the Ministry of Education. This generous donation is part of FIFA’s Digital Education Program, a three-year initiative introducing computer science and robotics to primary schools worldwide. Belize is the first country in the region to participate, representing one of six continents. At the ceremony earlier today, Minister of Education Francis Fonseca explained how Belizean students will benefit from this exciting project.

 

Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
“This is, as I said, a collaborative effort between the Government of Belize, the Ministry of Education, Football Federation of Belize, and the FIFA Foundation. The whole objective is that We’re trying to, of course, continue the work of ensuring that we’re equipping our students and teachers with competencies in programming, robotics, computing. So this is a program, we’re doing it here at St. Joseph’s today, but it will affect about ten thousand students across the country, and three hundred  teachers are being trained. The entire objective of the program is, as I said, to ensure that our students are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to fully participate in this new world of technology.”

 

Britney Gordon

“And we heard them say on the podium that Belize was the country chosen for this entire continent. How did that come about?”

 

Francis Fonseca

“Yeah, that’s very interesting. Yeah, it really, we have to give credit to Prime Minister Briceño. He had a meeting with both the president and chairman of FIFA in New York, I think about two years ago. And so that really was the beginning of this process. He established that personal contact with them. And so it was out of that relationship that Belize was eventually.  And so we followed up on that. We have to give credit to the Prime Minister.”