Summer Tech Camp Jamaica

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This summer, experience our fun, exciting and educational tech camp for 3 weeks in July; 2 weeks in August or over 8 Weekends. Empower your tween or teen with skills to bring the creations of their imaginations to life, whist developing a monetisable and globally competitive skillset. We can teach your child understand the fundamental principles of animation, moving from a story board sketch to an animated story. Their portfolio will also include projects that teach them how to develop mobile applications and websites. Our proven camp courses, tools and techniques have helped many students to establish a solid foundation which have led to studying and landing jobs in the sector, as well as winning international competitions. This year, our Online Day Camps bring all the best of our project-based activities in our lessons with the convenience of learning from home. :

Website Design, Cartoon Animation and Mobile Application Design
Entrepreneurship in Tech
Public Speaking - Soft Skills Module
Engage your child in healthy-screen time.
Be 100% Virtual, and Convenient
Experience Open Day - Presentations and Certificates

Who We Are

Vision & Mision

Our vision is to "break barriers of learning; actualising potential."

Journey

Our mission is to use Coding for the the development of Confidence, Competence, Clarity, in learners through Information and Inspiration by providing self-directed and self-paced digital lessons along with live support for learners.

Board of Management

With the kind help of a multi-national collective of very gifted and achieved individuals, working in consulting, education, medical technology, pharamaceutical and computer science we stand ready to support learners, globally.

Awards & Achievements

Our greatest achievements are those of our past students who have been able to monetise their knowledge base through taking on Careers in Computer Science, felt motivated to pursue a STEM path in School (secondary or tertiary) or won internatioanl coding competitions such as our alumni, the 11-year old Jamaican X-Prize winner.

Our Approach
Proven Tools and Techniques

Online Coding Day Camp

Tweens and Teens

Students from different countries, join and practice daily guided project-based activities for the core modules of Introduction to Animation, Introduction to Mobile Application Design and Website Development. Students share the joys of their digital creations during Open Day, make power-point presentations and are awarded certificates of participation. Classes are held Mondays to Thursdays.

Course Duration: 3 Weeks 9am to 1:00pm
Modality: Instructor-Supported 100% Online
Fee: JMD 22,500

Coding for Business Tweens and Teens

6 Workshops - Fridays

This fusing of entrepreneurship and coding, allows children with business ideas as budding entrepreneurs to develop a business pitch as well as a technology product or technology-supported service. Students are given key tools needed to be on their way. Along with website design (wordpress), business model canvas and a business pitch deck will be prepared.

Course Duration: Friday July 15, 2022 - Friday August 19, 2022
Modality: Live Online (9am - 1:00pm) and Pre-Recorded Lessons
Fee: JMD 25,000

Weekend Coders

6 Weekend Lab Sessions -Saturdays

Weekend Coders allows students to access live lab sessions, that exposes them to a strong foundation in programming and exposure to the concepts and usage of Object Oriented Prorgramming. Children practice using select projects that develops their competence in HTML, JavaScript and CSS and Wordpress. This course strong emphasizes competency development in web languages and content management systems, not just a broad introductory exposure as our other courses.

Course Duration: Saturday July 16, 2022 - Saturday August 20, 2022
Modality: Live Online (9am - 1:00pm)
Fee: JMD 17,500

Tiny Coders- CoPilot

For 3+ to 7 year olds.

If your child is between 3 and 7 years of age, this is an excellent series of lessons that a parent or nanny can help a child to do. The language used is very easy to follow along so any adult can render teaching assistance as well as provide the positive re-enforcement whilst doing these short and fun coding activities. Tiny coders is designed to help young learners recognise coding patterns in a fun way, and develop a strong foundation for further abstract concepts later in their programming journey. Information sessions are held to provide teaching assistants, with additional information to make practicing the lessons even easier.

Course Duration: August - December
Modality: Pre-Recorded Weekly Activities
Fee:

Tech Camp
Exciting Project-Based Lessons and Expert Instructors

Short Lessons

The key to coding is practicing, so we've made sure our lessons only require an average of 15 minutes per lesson. Developing the skills of Coding and all its many benefits requires consistent effort, daily.

Learning Path

Project-Based lessons take students on our Digital Learning Path, ensuring key learning milestones are covered along the way. Each lesson is relevant to helping learners achieve the next milestone.

Learn From Anywhere

Tech Camp, Online. This programme develops the digital literacy of students and empowers them to become creators and not only consumers.

Live Coding Classes

Tech Camp Onlines; also learners to have a community to practice live coding for their projects, sharing an experience although learning remotely.

We Code

Collin Wilmot Tech Camp Parent
CEO Fun Tours (Matthew's Dad).

"Thanks to your last two summer camps, Matthew assisted us with our website development http://www.fun.tours."

Dr. Elsie Laurence-Chounoune UNDP Deputy Rep.
Using an offline innovation developed out of Coding Camps (Knowledge Point)

"the more you engage ..., the more you learn.”

Rev. Al Miller Endorsement
Pastor, Fellowship Tabernacle

"They will take your children from 5, 10, 12 and teach them how to design web pages and those fancy stuff".

Mario Bruno Pouezat (Knowledge Point Innovation by @AcademicJournies)
United Nations Resident Co-ordinator

"This breakthrough leverages the strong penetration of smart devices, overcomes the limitations of internet penetration and cost, thereby reducing the barrier to web based SDG education in Jamaica"Article Source

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United Nations Development Programme

"Leveraging technology innovated by a local company, Academic Journies, the Go For The Goals Digital Hotspot was specially commissioned by UN Jamaica as a digital space offering persons and locations with low or no internet connectivity the opportunity to access digital resources and interaction on the SDG. Resources include chatrooms, selfie photo features, videos, quizzes for prizes, and downloads. Users gain access via a special Go For The Goals Jamaica Wi Fi signal broadcast to smart devices within range. "Article Source