3 September – December 2021 | VOICES Bi-Monthly Magazine of the University of Technology, Jamaica Cont’d from page 1...Students Shine at Huawei “Seeds for the Future” 2021 Programme Tech4Good Challenge Seven UTech, Jamaica students, along with three students of the UWI, Mona, won the Tech4Good Project challenge. The winning group comprised UTech, Jamaica students Jayan Williams, Ashleigh Austin, Elliot Tyndale, Khamali Powell, Odane Swaby, Shawn Vassell and Toni-Ann Gray along with UWI, Mona students Shanoya Heywood, Rasheed Senior and Lois-Ann Hall. The team developed an app called “EcoCLean Jamaica” which aims to improve waste collection to promote a sanitary environment. During the programme Huawei Technologies, Jamaica also announced its inaugural Huawei Seeds Scholarship programme, totaling $4,000,000.00 JMD, to “provide financial support to Jamaican students involved in the ICT industry and to promote ICT talent within this country.” First place was awarded to UTech, Jamaica’s Shawn Vassell, Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering 4th year student, who achieved one of the highest overall scores for the Jamaican group. UTech, Jamaica students Khamali Powell, Jayan Williams, Chloe Campbell and Shanya Connell were among those also awarded scholarship for their performance, including their overall examination scores, their participation and examination rate, and project results during the “Seeds for the Future” programme. Jayan Williams, 3rd Year Bachelor of Science in Computer Networking and Security, School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) student makes a presentation on her team’s EcoClean Jamaica app which won the “Tech4Good” Group Project award. JLP Education Fund and JLP Positive Jamaica Foundation Donate Scholarships for Students in Need The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, MP (3rd left), Prime Minister poses for a group photograph with officers of the University of Technology, Jamaica and Students’ Union following his presentation of two symbolic scholarship cheques for $1.5 M and $1M from the JLP Education Fund and the JLP Positive Jamaica Foundation respectively, at a special handing over ceremony held Friday, November 26, 2021 at the UTech, Jamaica Papine Campus. Participating in the happy occasion (from left are) Dr. Haldane Johnson, Acting Deputy President, Mrs. Marcia Jennings-Cole, Vice President and Chief Business and Finance Officer, Professor Colin Gyles, Acting President and Miss Robyn Murray, President, UTech, Jamaica Students Union Prime Minister and Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP on November 26, 2021 donated J$2.5 M to the University of Technology, Jamaica to assist students in need, to close the gap in the tuition fees. The Prime Minister presented acting University President, Professor Colin Gyles with two symbolic cheques – one for $1.5 M from the JLP Education Fund and the other for $1 million to the institution from the Prime Minister’s Positive Jamaica Foundation. In presenting the donation to the University, the Prime Minister said that “our universities are very important institutions in the development of our society. It is through our universities that we build the human capital of our country and this human capital is so important for growth and development.” In this context, the Prime Minster also noted that “it has always been one of my commitments to ensure that whatever I can do outside of my position as Prime Minister and outside of government, and whatever I can do personally and as leader of a political organization, that I would do it to support our university students.” Cont’d on page 4
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