Editorial · Recognition & Achievement
The Guyana Business Journal extends its warmest congratulations to Dr. Karen Abrams, Founder and Executive Director of STEMGuyana, on the conferral of her Doctor of Education in Educational Technology from the University of Florida.
The Editors, Guyana Business Journal · April 30, 2026
The Guyana Business Journal extends its warmest congratulations to Dr. Karen Abrams, Founder and Executive Director of STEMGuyana, on the conferral of her Doctor of Education in Educational Technology from the University of Florida.
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Administrative Regions of Guyana reached by STEMGuyana Learning Pods
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STEM Clubs established across Guyana under Dr. Abrams’ leadership
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AI-powered Learning Pods deployed in communities across all ten regions
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World ranking in robotics achieved by Guyanese students in 2017 — the beginning
Dr. Abrams’ doctorate is unusual in the most important way: she did not pause her work to earn it. She built the work, and then made it the object of rigorous study. Her dissertation — an analysis of learner engagement and academic outcomes in mathematics and English through an AI-based tutoring platform — is grounded in the Learning Pods that STEMGuyana operates across all ten administrative regions of Guyana. The students whose progress she examined are not abstractions. They are children in Mahaica and Mabaruma, in Linden and Lethem, along the Pomeroon and the Berbice — the very children whose talent the country has too often allowed to disappear into the silence between policy and practice.
She did not pause her work to earn it. She built the work, and then made it the object of rigorous study.
That is the moral architecture of her achievement. From a tenth-place world ranking in robotics in 2017, to the Albert Einstein gold medal in Dubai in 2019, to seventy STEM Clubs and forty Learning Pods reaching every region, to the Golden Arrow of Achievement, and now to a doctorate whose evidence base is drawn from the very ground she has been cultivating — Dr. Abrams has demonstrated, over and again, that Guyanese children, given infrastructure and seriousness, can compete with anyone.
We salute her family and the STEMGuyana team, who have walked with her through the long discipline of building and the longer discipline of measuring what was built. We salute the University of Florida for recognizing the work. And we salute Dr. Abrams herself — Guyanese-born, diaspora-shaped, country-serving — for showing us once more what is possible.
Q.E.D.
The Editors, Guyana Business Journal The Guyana Business Journal is an independent publication covering commerce, policy, and society in Guyana and the Caribbean diaspora. It is published from Brooklyn, New York.
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