How Two Caribbean Innovators are Transforming STEM Education and Digital Innovation

A little over a year ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Shergaun Roserie, co-founder of Orbtronics, as he and his business partner Keeghan Patrick were in the early stages of championing STEM education in St. Lucia. At the time, they had already impacted hundreds of young minds in St. Lucia, but they were just getting started. Fast forward to today, and Orbtronics has reached new heights, touching the lives of over 800 students and expanding their influence across the region. When I caught up with Shergaun and Keeghan again recently, they shared their remarkable journey of growth, innovation, and their unwavering commitment to empowering the next generation of Caribbean tech leaders.

A Regional Impact

Since its inception, Orbtronics has aimed to empower young minds across the Caribbean through innovative STEM education. In 2024, their reach expanded even further with the Generative AI and Python Summer Camp, a regional program sponsored by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund, and Ministries of Education. The program equipped high school students with cutting-edge Generative AI and Python coding skills to solve real-world problems and was guided by local industry experts including Orbtronics.

"We’ve seen incredible growth in our students, both technically and creatively," Keeghan shared, reflecting on the experience. At the summer camp, students aged 13-18 from Antigua, Saint Kitts, Nevis, and Saint Lucia designed and showcased healthcare and disaster management chatbots. Their creations demonstrated both technical proficiency and real-world application.

The winning projects included Miss Khalifa, a chatbot designed to provide teenagers with accurate, non-judgmental sexual health education, developed by the Pink Panthers team from Saint Kitts and Nevis, Navi, a chatbot that provides instant, personalized weather and traffic updates, developed by Team Azure Avengers from St. Kitts and Nevis and AI-den, a chatbot aimed at revolutionizing emergency care by enhancing patient assessment and diagnosis accuracy designed by Saint Lucia’s team AI-den.