YES Competition 2025–26 Winners' Workshops!

After celebrating our Young Environmental Scientists Competition 2025–26 winners, we’re delighted to share that both our primary and secondary champions enjoyed their hands-on STEM workshops as part of their prize.

Led by STEM educator and competition judge Kavelle Hylton, the sessions focused on coding, robotics, and real-world problem solving, giving students the chance to bring their ideas to life.

Over 30 Standard Two and Standard Three students from Tunapuna Presbyterian Primary School in Trinidad, where our primary winners the Eco-Hero Team are from, took part in the workshop across two sessions.

Ms Hylton’s sessions were interactive, with students fully engaged as they learned to code using micro:bit devices. It was great to see the excitement as their instructions came to life, seeing the micro:bit respond to the code they created in real time.

Our secondary winners, Team ResistRx from Queen’s College, Guyana, also took part in an engaging workshop.

Using micro:bits, students explored how coding and robotics can be applied within agriculture, including monitoring weather patterns and temperature, tracking environmental conditions, and supporting smarter farming practices. The session highlighted how simple programmable tools can improve decision-making and contribute to sustainable agricultural development.

Ms Hylton praised the students for their curiosity and willingness to embrace new technologies.

As part of their prizes, both winning teams also received $250 USD vouchers for their local bookstore, along with a class set of science textbooks for their school, helping to support their learning after the competition.

Below are photos from the team’s prize giving’s.