 After hosting a successful student digital skills training last year, local business of Churnix is expanding its rich district by district. In September, digital training sessions will be held at the Grosile Human Resource Centre for individuals 16 years and older. Participants will be engaged in training on social media marketing, website design, basic graphic design, PowerPoint presentations, e-commerce tools and the effective use of information management systems like Google Suite. Obchonix co-founder Keegan Patrick says this type of engagement with the public is geared towards increasing digital literacy and the number of digital businesses in Grosile. We want to help develop this interest in technology. We want to see St. Lucia and the Caribbean region become a place where we're not only users of innovative technologies but we become creators of innovative technologies. These STEM educational programs focus on teaching the human capital of St. Lucia with wider perspectives of the Caribbean about technology, about engineering and the digital space as it's growing. We know in the world right now there's almost the fourth industrial revolution where we're going into technology, the internet of things and we're trying to bring this new space of technology to St. Lucia and try to get our public familiarized and interested in this kind of industry. Operations manager overseeing the upcoming training sessions says the response by the public has been tremendous. He encourages persons to register if they want to transition their businesses online or enhance their employability. If you just want to tone on your skills and get like introduced to new applications that you wouldn't know existed, so like bring your business from just a normal like traditional business but more put it online, put it out there, make ads on social media, create a different flyer or create a QR code. So that's what we're trying to teach people. We knew people would be interested but we didn't expect so many people and the good thing is that we're hitting all different age ranges. So it's not like persons saying that their kid is out of school and they want to send them to do something. It's more people asking for time off from work, asking us to send them an email so that they could ask for the day off to really push themselves and that really made us realize like wow people really want to do better and really get into the digital economy more. The three focus areas of the Upturnix company are website and mobile applications development, rapid prototyping services and the STEM educational program that includes the digital skills training.