Panama’s Terpel Foundation Ignites Knowledge by Inaugurating a Sixth Interactive Classroom

At the top of the mountain, where the path is made of stone and the sun beats down hard, the students of Coclesito today have a new reason to dream big. The Terpel Panama Foundation visited the Coclesito Technical Professional Institute, in the Omar Torrijos Herrera district (Colón), to inaugurate its sixth Interactive Classroom and Aventura de Letras library, a space that will change the lives of more than 900 students and 71 teachers. This is not just a classroom. It’s a technology and reading lab. State-of-the-art equipment, augmented reality, and even Starlink satellite internet have arrived in a place where previously the closest thing to technology was a radio or a cell phone with no signal.  “Today is a historic and unforgettable day.

Today we are beginning the journey so that ‘the children of the mountains,’ as the young people of this region of the country are known, can access cutting-edge methodological approaches and technologies,” said Óscar Sosa, director of the Terpel Panama Foundation.  Sosa added that new technologies “allow them to have better opportunities and build a better future: under a sustainable approach and thanks to the support of our network of Va&Ven stations and stores, from the Terpel Panama Foundation we focus all our efforts on educating to transform lives.”  The Aventura de Letras library is no exception. With over 900 books of stories, legends, and science fiction, this corner will become the place where children discover that reading can also be an adventure.