Educating children and adolescents to dream big and train them to develop their talent is the objective of Trix&Trax, a Venezuelan organization that tries to give a twist to the traditional school curriculum.
From a classroom converted into a television studio, young people receive training in the arts, sports, music or technology.
“It becomes something fun, like a game, but you are learning skills. Our program focuses on developing young people so they can discover and enhance their talents,” explains Lissette Rojas, founder and director of Trix&Trax.
Each student develops a role within a team. The tasks of a manager, a journalist, a famous star or a cameraman are distributed; so that they learn to lose their fear and communicate better.
“To work across the board with young people what the 6 “Cs” are, the skills of the 21st century: creativity, trust, collaboration, critical thinking, communication and citizenship”, explains Rojas, a 52-year-old lawyer. .
Rojas and his team have trained some 15,000 children between the ages of 10 and 17 since 2012, and have even crossed borders. The Trix&Trax model has been recognized, for three consecutive years, among the 100 innovative programs in education by the Finnish organization HundrED.
“That led us, in 2019, to the education week in Helsinki so that we could demonstrate how our modules worked with Finnish children,” says Rojas.
For the founder of Trix&Trax, this teaching mechanism has served to enhance the self-confidence of the students.
“Why not quickly identify what it is that I’m good at? What is it that I’m passionate about? And be able to have the tools to be able to tell your dad: look, my thing is dancing and I want to continue with this”.
At the moment, the Trix And Trax model is only applied in the Institutos Educacionales Asociados school, in Caracas, as a complementary subject to the traditional high school curriculum, but its desire is to continue conquering spaces in other schools in the country.
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