LIME surprises students, teachers of BFEC
“This is our first LIME Surprise…it is something new that we have started. Sometime (ago) a group of Form Four students came to [one of our LIME offices] and while we were there, LIME was offering bags and some top up, and there was one young man who said he couldn’t accept a top up because he didn’t have a phone,” said General Manager of LIME BVI Mr Sean Auguste while addressing the students and teachers of the institution.
“LIME being who we are saw this as an opportunity to recognize the courage of a young man and reward him for it,” he said, as he explained the genesis of the initiative. “Today we are here to give this young man a phone,” he said.
“Can I invite Jaleel Bowens to come up?” asked Auguste to loud cheers from the students. To add to the excitement, Bowens got to choose between an Apple IPhone 5S and a Samsung Galaxy S5. With the equally loud cheers of encouragement from the students urging Bowens to take the one they favoured, he decided on then Samsung Galaxy S5.
However, Bowens had to commit to collaborating with LIME on a public awareness campaign on the responsible uses and benefits of smartphones like the one he went home with yesterday. The focus of the campaign would be the uses of smartphones in educational pursuits and pitfalls to avoid such as texting while driving.
“Before you accept this, we need you to do something for us and something for your school. If you accept that challenge you get to go with the phone,” said Mr Auguste. “We recognize cellphones especially smartphones can be used in a number of different ways and we also hear of the horror stories when our friends, family and others get in accidents because they did not use the phones [responsibly]. They were texting while driving,” he said.
“So what we want you to do for us and for your school is to prepare something that you can communicate to your colleagues in your school on how to use smartphones properly,” said Mr Auguste.
“Technology is a wonderful thing…it enables our lives but they must be used responsibly,” he said. Speaking to the young man and to all the students, Mr Auguste said that there are a number of uses that the smartphone has in the field of education but that it must be used responsibly. “So we want you to help with that message to the students to help with the responsible use of phones,” he said.
Students who are in the debating team that qualified for the finals of the 2014 Territorial Debating Competition were also surprised with Apple IPhone 5S smartphones. Among them were Johanna Gibson and Kadijah Roberts. In addition to this, a number of teachers, some of whom were instrumental in preparing the students for the challenges of the debating competition, were also given smartphones.
As part of the day of surprises, LIME also invited all Fourth and Fifth Form students of BFEC to lunch at Top of the Baths yesterday and has also invited them to the premier of the new Spiderman movie, which is supposed to premier in the Virgin Islands on the same day that it does in the United States.
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