Century 21 Education: Makers, Creators & Global Benchmarking

[Don1]

i.e. Less Yappin....More Innovative Applications

Century 21 Education Chronicles CXXXV11

NCU’s mosquito repellant places 6th in international competition
Monday, May 02, 2016 | 7:09 PM 7 Comments

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A Northern Caribbean University (NCU) team placed sixth in the world when they presented at the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) held in Washington DC, in the United States, on April 29 and 30.

This year, 5000 teams from 200 schools from all over the world participated in the competition. Of that number, 42 teams were given the opportunity to present their business models, NCU’s ‘Guardana’ team being one of them.

According to a release from NCU, in 2014 during the outbreak of the Chikungunya virus, the team saw the opportunity to start the production of a DEET-free mosquito repellant called Guard -- the product with which they entered the competition.

The IBMC is the first and largest start-up competition in the world with aims to educate and inspire smarter and more successful entrepreneurs, the NCU release said.

[Willi]

Dem still a yap.

We need more anti-mosquito products NOW.

Jamaica infested with those critters.

[Don1]

Dem still a yap.

We need more anti-mosquito products NOW.

Jamaica infested with those critters.

What we really need to cultivate is a culture which celebrates & enables innovation, product creation, problem solving & entrepreneurship ....as early as possible..Definitely by high school if not the primary level

Instead we celebrate producing mostly servants, low skill laborers and glorified clerks via the rote learning education system we have from colonial times. A 100% defunct and irrelevant shitstem in Century 21.

The backward thinking underlying that shitstem is the main reason a quiz en vogue in the mid-20th Century is even now still at the apex of our academic competition ...generating tremendous hype

Backwardness abounds