Students receive tablets

Students from three St. Joseph Primary school received a much needed assistance to their educational development on Wednesday, after these class 3 pupils were given tablets for their personal use.

Students from the St. Joseph Primary, St. Bernard’s Primary and St. Elizabeth Primary gathered at the St. Joseph Library during the morning period for a brief presentation of the devices which were donated by Aron Truss from the Aron and Christina Truss Foundation, CEO of Promotech, Kailash Pardasani, and Nic Williamson – an expat to the island.

Aron Truss admitted to the students that he knows tablets are capable of playing a whole list of games for them to enjoy, but that the small powerful devices are the keys to a wide and diverse world of learning that await the pupils as they get older.

“You are still learning some skills that you will need when you are older and enter secondary school and eventually enter the workforce. Devices like these are going to be more and more common, and you have to be very familiar with how to use them. With these devices, once you connect them to the internet, there is so much information and knowledge out there,” he said

Though his wife could not make it to the presentation, Truss revealed to the students, that the idea of giving students in need such devices, came to himself and his wife several years ago because of the capabilities the devices hold for education.

“We realised that these devices are very important in the development of young children, because we had young children and we saw the benefits they were getting from technology. We realised that there were many parents in Barbados who cannot afford to buy children devices like this. That’s why we started our charity to provide these devices to students at Primary schools throughout Barbados,” Truss stated.

The 56 students were encouraged to take good care of these devices, which have a list price of $250 each.

Kailash Pardasani expressed pleasure in being able to take part in the donation of the devices this year, and encouraged the students to embrace the wide world of technology for their education. (SB)