BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IN quite an impressive presentation, politicians, dignitaries, technocrats among others, were given insight into the ground-breaking work of IT students of the Technical Vocational Educational and Management Student Division of the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College.
The presentation was made yesterday (Feb. 18) at the Ocean Terrace Inn where the launch of the Government’s e-Government Platform – a product of Open Interactive – took place.
Representing the Division was student Shaqueed Benjamin who gave a brief overview of the projects in which both the first and second-year students are involved. His presentation was named ‘Innovations for the Future of St. Kitts and Nevis’.
The projects include the creation of an IT A-plus certification licence for software and hardware, a motion detection and tracking camera system and an all-terrain drone and motion detection apparatus.
While all the projects spoken of were striking, of particular note was what Benjamin called the “Octo-Copter”. He explained that the basis behind creating this apparatus is to assist in crime detection.
“Our main idea for this drone is to help with crime. Manual patrols, they work but sometimes you need an extra eye. So with these drones in the sky just going around doing their thing, we will have another eye there helping us out with these crimes because sometimes we have a crime where you can’t attach anyone to it. So this drone can help out and it would be a live feed so you would have a master control which would be picking up everything and give you eyes where you can’t see.”
Over the past several years, much talk had been made about pursing alternate sources of energy and decreasing the Federation’s dependency on fossil fuel.
Benjamin said one of the students’ projects would see a solar panel prototype being placed at CFBC from which information about how much energy is collected, how much is used and the difference between solar consumption and fossil fuel consumption would be fed into a monitoring room.
Describing the final project a “secret”, Benjamin gave a sneak peek into it, indicating that the class is venturing into robotic development; an area which is virtually untapped within the Federation.
Expressing their approval of the CFBC students and their advancements, the audience offered applause at various intervals during the presentation.
Principle of Open Interactive Stachio Williams, in providing comment during the launch, spoke of the ongoing construction of the Open Interactive Campus; an entity which he declared is designed to encourage creativity such as those displayed by the CFBC students.
