Groundings with their AlphaMax Fellows & Colleagues
On Wednesday, March 2nd, 60 students from Queen’s College, the leading Middelbare high-school in Georgetown, Guyana, met and interacted with more than 30 high school students from the AlphaMax Academy in Paramaribo.
Under the theme, “Youth, Agriculture & the Earth’s Future,” the students from the two English schools followed power-point and video presentations, and discussed organic agriculture and technology at the Anton de Kom University Lecture Hall.
The program was organized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture in collaboration with the AlphaMax Academy, the Suriname Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Guyana, and Queen’s College, Guyana.
Following a presentation by Suriname’s IICA Representative, Cromwell Crawford, about the mission and work of the organization in Suriname and the Americas, Suriname's Minister of Labour, Technology & the Environment, Ginmardo Kromosoeto, addressed the students and teachers from both schools about the importance of this cross-border meeting between students of two top schools.
Video presentations on organic agriculture and solar dehydration technology developed with know-how and expertise from Guyana and Suriname were followed by lively discussions, and a question and answer period about forging a path of cooperation.
During their five-day visit – the first of its kind – the agriculture-science students from Queen’s College also visited CELOS, NATIN, and Guiana Sea Foods. They also met with representatives from the national youth parliament of Suriname. The Queen’s College students and their five instructors returned to Georgetown, Guyana, on Saturday, March 5th.
