Al­most 300 fifth and sixth form sec­ondary school stu­dents from north, cen­tral and south Trinidad filled the Dig­i­cel IMAX The­atre at One Wood­brook Place, Port-of-Spain, on Feb­ru­ary 3, for the sec­ond Dig­i­cel IMAX School Lec­ture Se­ries, and to see the doc­u­men­tary Hub­ble 3D. Ex­cite­ment filled the air as fas­ci­nat­ed stu­dents were hurled through space past the Ori­on con­stel­la­tion and plunged deep­er in­to space, where they viewed im­ages of the vast Neb­u­la known as the birth­place of the stars. Screams filled the air and stu­dents could be seen try­ing to touch the stars (nick­named tad­poles) as they were "tossed" at them from the Neb­u­la.

The stu­dents re­ceived an in­spir­ing lec­ture from Dr Shirin Haque, as­tronomer and se­nior lec­tur­er of the De­part­ment of Physics at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, who urged them to "fol­low your dreams and the uni­verse will open doors for you where there were on­ly walls." She en­cour­aged them to "reach for the stars" and not al­low peo­ple to dis­suade them from pur­su­ing their dreams. Pen­ny Gomez, Dig­i­cel's com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er, said Dig­i­cel was pleased to ex­pose stu­dents to the pos­si­bil­i­ties of non-tra­di­tion­al ca­reers that are avail­able in ad­di­tion to the con­ven­tion­al jobs. She ad­vised stu­dents that they were about to en­ter a life-defin­ing era and that they should ex­pand their minds and push the bound­aries in or­der to live their dreams.