In March 2024, the ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies spon­sored the sev­enth cy­cle of Wiz­dom­CRM, a vir­tu­al stock mar­ket game themed Cham­pi­oning Suc­cess: Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence in Ed­u­ca­tion and Cross-Bor­der Ex­cel­lence.

Yes­ter­day, at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, Wiz­dom­CRM held its Sev­enth Cy­cle award cer­e­mo­ny for 150 stu­dents from T&T and Guyana.

Speak­ing at the cer­e­mo­ny, ANSA McAL Group of Com­pa­nies head of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Sarah In­gle­field said, “Our rea­son for com­ing on board as a re­gion­al spon­sor of Cy­cle Sev­en is be­cause we see this as a crit­i­cal step to­wards pro­mot­ing fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty and suc­cess for peo­ple and so­ci­eties across the Caribbean.”

She em­pha­sised, “This ini­tia­tive is im­por­tant to our group CEO, An­tho­ny Sab­ga III, and our lead­er­ship team as we see the ben­e­fits of the sus­tain­able stock mar­ket game in strength­en­ing hu­man cap­i­tal and en­sur­ing qual­i­ty ed­u­ca­tion at the sec­ondary school lev­el in both Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

In­gle­field con­tin­ued, “I am con­fi­dent that all stu­dents who have par­tic­i­pat­ed in Wiz­dom­CRM Cy­cle Sev­en, es­pe­cial­ly the top 150 stu­dents, will con­tribute sig­nif­i­cant­ly to­wards a more sus­tain­able fu­ture and fu­el the en­tre­pre­neur­ial spir­it to­wards eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment, cre­at­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for you, your fam­i­lies, and your com­mu­ni­ties.”

She added, “I am per­son­al­ly very in­spired by what I have wit­nessed over the last three months—the pow­er of part­ner­ships with or­gan­i­sa­tions such as Wiz­dom­CRM, the min­istries, NGOs, busi­ness­es—all work­ing to­geth­er for a com­mon cause. This evening, it’s all about you, the top 150 stu­dents who ex­celled from a pool of al­most 7,797 stu­dents.”

De­signed to nur­ture a deep­er un­der­stand­ing of cap­i­tal mar­kets, Wiz­dom­CRM’s plat­form ig­nites a spir­it of ex­cel­lence, col­lab­o­ra­tion, and re­gion­al co-op­er­a­tion.

By en­gag­ing stu­dents in a dy­nam­ic learn­ing en­vi­ron­ment, it aims to cul­ti­vate not on­ly fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy but al­so a broad­er aware­ness of eco­nom­ic op­por­tu­ni­ties with­in the Cari­com re­gion.

Man­ag­er at Wiz­dom­CRM Caribbean Lim­it­ed, Charielle Plow­den, ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion that spon­sors have com­mit­ted to stay on for Cy­cles Eight, Nine, and Ten.

The sev­enth cy­cle of Wiz­dom­CRM’s Sus­tain­able Stock Mar­ket Game at­tract­ed sig­nif­i­cant par­tic­i­pa­tion with 7,797 stu­dents from Guyana and Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In George­town, Guyana, 2,122 stu­dents from sec­ondary schools com­pet­ed, while 5,675 stu­dents from di­verse so­cio-eco­nom­ic back­grounds across Trinidad and To­ba­go al­so par­tic­i­pat­ed.

Chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Catholic Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment, Sharon Man­groo, high­light­ed, “In this cy­cle, the pro­gram has ex­pand­ed be­yond the shores of Trinidad and To­ba­go to Guyana, well on its way to be­com­ing a Caribbean-wide ini­tia­tive. With 150 sec­ondary schools in this cy­cle, we look for­ward to hav­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion from all sec­ondary schools very soon.”

She em­pha­sised, “Stu­dents’ ac­counts of their ex­pe­ri­ences in the sus­tain­able Wiz­dom stock mar­ket game speak to its pro­found im­pact as they learn to in­vest in lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­nies and en­gage with ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in the de­vel­op­ment of new tech­nolo­gies.”

Wiz­dom­CRM is a dig­i­tal lit­er­a­cy plat­form that teach­es par­tic­i­pants core fi­nan­cial skills.

All learn­ing ap­proach­es are in­te­grat­ed through Is­abel­la, the game’s be­spoke AI tool, which guides users through vi­su­al, writ­ten, and au­di­to­ry learn­ing ma­te­ri­als.