Three Teams Advance to National Round of Samsung STEM Competition

Three teams from a pool of 10 have been selected to go on national eliminations to represent Belize in the 2025 Samsung Solve For Tomorrow STEM Competition. The competition challenges students to identify problems in their society and use Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) to develop solutions for those problems. The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology announced that the teams that have made it to the national eliminations are Aqua Verde from Sadie Vernon Technical High School, Municipal Carcass Response Network from Itz’at STEM Academy, and PATH from Nazarene High School. The successful team will go on to represent Belize as part of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region in the finals this October. Love News spoke with Patrick Flowers, team supervisor for Sadie Vernon, about the Aqua Verde prototype.

Samsung launched the Solve for Tomorrow Competition in 2010. Belize has been participating in the competition since 2023. That year, Pallotti High School won the competition for the LAC region with their invention “SMARTZ,” a mobility aid for visually impaired people that uses glasses and a cane to detect and alert users to obstacles.