EDEX exhibition in its 17th year

A group of past Royal College students have toiled hard for the past 16 years to empower the youth of Sri Lanka to be globally competitive and to make a ‘difference’ in guiding them to select their future career path.
The venture has been very successful, declared Mahinda Galagedara, Chairman EDEX, speaking a media briefing held on Tuesday at the Royal College Union (RCU) Auditorium, Colombo to announce the celebrations of 17 years of Excellence in Education and Career Guidance (EDEX) and the holding of the EDEX Expo 2020 at the BMICH, Colombo from January 17-19 and January 24-25 at the Kandy City Centre.
He said that EDEX has now become a household name when deciding the next step of the students in higher education and career choices.
In his introductory remarks, Mr. Galagedara elaborated how EDEX has made a ‘difference’ other than guiding the students of the next step in higher education and career guidance. He said that to date they have been offering scholarships for 2,300 poor children in their education from primary to university studies spending Rs. 832,455 per month.  
Under ‘EDEX Think Green’, an initiative is launched to educate, activate and engage youth towards sustainable living and focus to educate the EDEX Expo visitors on the sustainable development goals. Plants are to be distributed for Grade I students on their first day in the school.
He said that waste segregation and recycling, mobile waste and electronic waste awareness and disposal initiative would be carried out at the exhibition, while steps have been taken to start biogas and rainwater harvesting projects.  
EDEX Expo 2020 sets a platform for local and global convergence of key post-secondary educational stakeholders, comprising over 200 education exhibition booths, representing local and foreign universities and institutes from over 20 countries.
The international presence will be enhanced with the participation of a number of reputed country pavilions from Japan, France, India, Australia and Pakistan. Direct or local representatives from leading universities in UK, Russia, Canada and Switzerland will also be present.   (QP)