Tots soak up the information superhighway
With summer now in full swing it is officially the season of camps and classes. This morning, News 5’s Patrick Jones stopped in at one such activity on Freetown Road where he found a whole bunch of little ones trying to learn some new tricks.
Patrick Jones, Reporting
After two weeks of training, the next generation of computer whizzes is excited to show off their newly acquired skills to their parents. The course, sponsored by WorldCom Technologies, introduces children ages five to seventeen to the exciting world of computers.
Carlene Creary, WorldCom Training Coordinator
“We’re working in line with technology, the way technology is moving in today’s day and age and I think especially in Belize it’s really becoming streamlined, technology. So it’s good to start from the young kids. It’s surprising that a lot of young kids even know more than their parents in computers and technology. So when you start them young, they can help their parents at home and it also makes for a better future.”
And with such hopes literally in the palm of their tiny little hands, the excitement with which the children approach the concept of computers leaves teachers with their hands full.
Carlene Creary
“Well I can say very challenging, but from a personal standpoint, I love kids and I love the younger ones, so it has done a lot for me for the past weeks they have been here and I enjoy it. I know on a whole it’s a challenge to deal with kids, but its fun for us.”
The courses started on June twenty-third and will run until August twenty-second at WorldCom training rooms on Freetown Road.
Carlene Creary
“We have two-week and three-week sessions. For the five to eleven years, we have four two-week sessions and twelve to seventeen years we have three three-week sessions.”
Patrick Jones
“Now what do you teach these children when they come to your place?”
Carlene Creary
“We teach them a variety of computer applications from Microsoft Office, which includes Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher and we also go into web development. For the younger ones they get to do a lot of creativity with publisher, create a card for their moms, fliers. For the older ones they build their web pages and place it on the Internet.”
Creary says the next training sessions start on Monday and there are limited spaces available. Patrick Jones, for News 5.
Apart from computer training, WorldCom Technologies also offers auditing and accounting services, as well as diagnosis and repairing of computers.
