SINGAPORE, 9 October 2023: Sabre Corporation, a software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, is working to improve education standards and future career opportunities for students in some of India’s most deprived areas by creating new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) labs.
Along with not-for-profit United Way Bengaluru (UWBe), Sabre supports STEM labs in six government-run schools in Chikkaballapur, rural Karnataka, near Bengaluru.
Many of the schools are based in what is classed as underprivileged areas, and Sabre’s contribution will improve the education of around 1,600 students from 26 villages every year.
Around 1,000 are from a girls-only school, supporting the drive to encourage more women to enter technology fields. The labs will make complex subjects and concepts easier to understand while opening up new learning and career paths.
Sabre’s pioneering capability centre in India’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru, plays a major role in developing industry-leading solutions for the travel business and provides a strong IT backbone for Sabre’s global operations. It is a workplace where agile transformation based on lean start-up thinking is built daily, and the teams in Bengaluru support airlines, hotels, travel agencies, travel management companies, and other travel companies across the country.
The new STEM labs will take learning beyond textbooks and into first-hand, practical experiences, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical mindsets while encouraging students to improve communication skills through teamwork.
