During the coming summer, Summer School and Summer Camp will be organized where the students will be learning in an interactive way important principles in innovative technology.
This was announced by the Minister for the Economy, European Funds and Lands Silvio Schembri. The Summer School, with the name of “Future Innovators”, will be held at MCAST in Paola between July and September, for students between 13 and 15 years old.
Among others it will help students in their creative abilities when it comes to artificial intelligence and digital innovation and they will learn among others on coding, blockchain, metaverse, 3D printing and cybersecurity.
The Summer Camp, xPloring Intelligence – a Bootcamp on Us and Tech, will be held at the Faculty of ICT at the University of Malta, between 11 and 15 September, for students between 7th year and the 9th school year. This Summer Camp will be aimed at encouraging students to choose subjects related to technology.
A comic was also launched today that will be distributed to all students from the 9th to the 11th school year and who have Computing or VET IT subjects, in all Maltese and Gozitan schools.
The Minister for the Economy, European Funds and Lands Silvio Schembri thanked the three entities within the Ministry; MDIA, Tech.mt and eSkills who worked together on these initiatives, as well as MCAST and the University of Malta. “This is the way we do it together for the good of our country and our children. We know that technology and the digital world are the future and with these initiatives we are nurturing the passion for these sciences in our children,” said he said.
Minister Schembri also made reference to the law in virtual financial assets (blockchain, crypto currency) known as MiCA which was recently adopted by the European Union. “In this area, Malta was the first jurisdiction to make a regulatory framework on virtual assets. Many at that time did not understand the importance of this law, but today our country is a model of how this law is put into practice. Today we have a six-year advantage over other countries, which makes us leaders in the field,” the minister said.
The CEO of MDIA Kenneth Brincat said that: “Innovative technology is changing the way we work and operate and MDIA’s interest is that technology is adopted safely for the benefit of society . For this to be accomplished we must start from an early age. As MDIA we believe that through collaboration we can find new ways for children and young people to be nurtured in the use of innovative technology in a safe way,” said Mr Brincat.
