Community College students making good use of SVGOC Information Centre

The establishment of an Information Centre and Museum by the Stephen Joachim- led executive of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Olympic Committee (SVGOC) seven months ago, is achieving its objectives.

Set up as a means of encouraging students to utilize the computer facilities, technologies, as well as the documents, the centre is providing that to students, especially those at the St Vincent and the Grenadines Community College (SVGCC).

One group that is tapping into the available resources at the Sport Information Centre, is first year students of the SVGCC who are enrolled in the institution’s Department of Natural Sciences Applied Associate Degree in Sports Sciences.

As such, on October 30, 2024, sixty-one students made good of the facility, as they pursued their module in Biomechanics.

Delighted that the students of the college were able to benefit from the SVGOC’s facility, Sports Coordinator of the SVGCC, Roxell John said: “We are grateful that we can use such a facility. It is something that augurs well for the development of sports and studies among our students”.

Noting that it will not be one-off, John added, “We will be using the facility from to time to time as the internet access is good and serves the purpose from some [of] the projects to be undertaken by the students,” and because “of the connections to other sites that are sports related and possess pertinent information to many of our topics”.

At the opening ceremony of the Sports Information Centre and Museum on April 30, 2024, General Secretary of the SVGOC, Keith Joseph envisaged students using the facilities for their projects. Joseph said then, “It is also a means of encouraging students when they do their projects to afford us an opportunity to remain in our system so that we can come back and see some of the works that our students are doing, especially at the Community College where they are doing the Associates Degree.”