Barbadian school children are to be given an opportunity to attend the upcoming regional energy conference being held by BREA, so they can obtain first-hand knowledge of renewable energy technologies and their applications.
Students, teachers and Ministry of Education officers are expected to attend the conference which will be held from November 10 to 11 at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC). Award-winning school projects from across the island will also be exhibited. The exhibition will also feature a wide variety of energy and energy saving technologies.
These will include heat conversion into energy, coatings for roofs and walls that aid in cooling buildings and homes as well as more familiar alternative energy technologies.
Clyde Griffith, Executive Director of the Barbados Renewable Energy Association (BREA), recently noted that gaining the interest of youth as it relates to renewable energy, has always been a key focus of BREA, since its establishment back in 2010.
“It was always in our minds, those of us who founded the organisation, that we needed to ensure that the future is secure with young people. So after this conference, we are going to be doing many things. One is to look at not only youth in Barbados, but Caribbean youth, because I feel that the experience that we have gathered so far in these last five and a half years, will be fundamentally good for the young people across the Caribbean. We want to encourage them to see renewable energy as the future for Caribbean youth and have them look at this as something to reach out for. So we are taking steps to take care of that,” Griffith said.
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