In­ter­na­tion­al Game Tech­nol­o­gy (IGT) is set to host its third vir­tu­al IGT Cod­ing and Ro­bot­ics Rock from Ju­ly 17 to 28. This year’s camp, themed ‘Think it, Code it, Solve it’, will equip stu­dents with mar­ketable tech­nol­o­gy skills and en­cour­age them to cre­ate dig­i­tal so­lu­tions that ad­vance the de­vel­op­ment of the re­gion.

As part of IGT’s Af­ter School Ad­van­tage (ASA) Pro­gramme, the camp will be of­fered ex­clu­sive­ly to youth be­tween the ages of 12 and 18, served by IGT’s ASA Cen­tres in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with the aim of reach­ing chil­dren who would not oth­er­wise have ac­cess to free in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy cours­es at this lev­el.

“We want to en­cour­age in­no­v­a­tive­ness and cre­ativ­i­ty in our stu­dents. This year’s theme par­tic­u­lar­ly chal­lenges them to cre­ate so­lu­tions to ad­dress is­sues re­lat­ed to the re­gion’s achieve­ment of the Unit­ed Na­tion’s Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals,” stat­ed IGT’s Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Dex­ter W. Thomas.

Re­turn­ing stu­dents from ASA Cen­tres will come from Cre­do Sophia House, a home for at-risk girls, and the NGO Cot­ton Tree Foun­da­tion. The camp will al­so wel­come new stu­dents from Cre­do Boys De­vel­op­men­tal Cen­tre, where IGT in­stalled its 18th ASA Cen­tre in Trinidad and To­ba­go ear­li­er this year.

The 14 boy res­i­dents at the Cre­do Cen­tre will join the camp at Lev­el I (In­tro­duc­to­ry Lev­el), which cov­ers the ba­sics of com­put­er pro­gram­ming, web de­vel­op­ment and ro­bot­ics. Mean­while, Lev­el II stu­dents will learn Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) and im­prove on last year’s lessons with more ad­vanced tech­niques.