33 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024 Canada IGT brought the After School Advantage program to Moncton, Canada, with a donation of 40 laptop computers to the Magnetic Hill School’s Technology Education curriculum. The school’s new portable technology lab enables the school to deliver its Middle School Technology Education program in nearly any location to the entire student population. As a new addition to the program, the school’s Tech Club program will be offered to fifth-grade students for the first time. Prior to Magnetic Hill School, IGT has provided After School Advantage computer labs to Moncton’s Forest Glen and Bessborough schools. Caribbean Through the ASA program in 2024, IGT held its fourth annual Coding and Robotics Rock! Camp, a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics training initiative for Caribbean youth aged 12-18, where more than 70 students from five Caribbean countries learned to apply technological solutions to the region’s climate issues. There are 38 IGT After School Advantage computer centers in the Caribbean. In the four years since the Coding and Robotics Rock! Camp began, more than 200 students across the Caribbean have been trained to become innovators and problem-solvers in an everevolving digital world. Italy IGT’s AI GIRLS program delivers free digital training on the advanced use of generative AI to girls aged 16 to 18 from schools all over Italy. The program helps students build skills to bridge the gender gap and create more inclusive communities. In its first three years, the program reached nearly 1,000 girls. In 2024, IGT introduced AI GIRLS Level Up, a training path dedicated to 15 brilliant AI GIRLS who completed the program’s previous curriculum. AI GIRLS Level Up aims to provide those 15 students with specialized training, mentorship, masterclasses, networking opportunities, and access to workshops and conferences. Costa Rica In April, in honor of both World Science and Technology Day and International Day of Girls in Information and Communication Technologies, IGT donated $15,000 worth of equipment to Costa Rica’s Paniamor Foundation. The donation contributed to the Foundation’s TechnoBus program, a mobile platform equipped with cutting-edge technology designed to close the digital gap that affects minors in socially disadvantaged communities. IGT’s donation included three 3D printers, 10 state-of-the-art computers, and 18 3D pens with screens. With this donation, the TechnoBus will visit more than 10 educational centers where more than 1,500 children between the ages of 4 and 9 will learn to use these tools safely and responsibly.
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