Reggae recording artist Chronixx is always finding ways to separate himself and he did it yet again with his tech coding summer Bootcamp. This boot camp was held at the University of the West Indies and lasted from July 4 – July 29.
During that time students can learn core parts of what it takes to excel in the field of computer science. Computer science is a very complex field if you want to go to university and learn it.
The curriculum consists of computer networks, algorithms, discrete mathematics, application design, databases, logic, and other fields. It’s quite an undertaking, but JamCoders is basically used as a quick introduction to inspire students to pursue computer science, which in my opinion could be beneficial for the growth of the country.
We lack skilled engineers who can build technological systems across many fields.
That’s one of the reasons why this boot camp created by Chronixx is very important and should get continued support from stakeholders in the future. Currently, this event was partly funded through his CHOR Foundation and supported by lecturers and teaching assistants from the Caribbean diaspora and the United States.
Universities such as Harvard, Stanford, California, and Berkeley were also apart of pivotal in helping this project.
Financially, major hedge fund D.E Shaw Group helped in financing this initiative along with the Survival and Flourishing Fund.
Chronixx made it clear he intends to show the younger generations what is possible through technology.
“I feel like it’s necessary for us to have a generation that are creators and pioneers of technology,” he said.
This is a very important and pivotal move by Chronixx, who is an action-taker and a man with many ideas. I am not surprised but glad that as a nation we have persons like him who can give back and invest in the youth not by handing out books and pens, but by allowing them to learn a skill or at least opening up their eyes to the possibility of what’s possible with technology.
Hopefully, this event will spark the next technology leader who can inspire the nation as he has done across music.
I will leave this with a last little tidbit of what he said about Emancipation when he was asked by a journalist.
“I’m not really into semantics and Independence and Emancipation. I don’t celebrate those things because I feel like those are mere words without actual, legal, and scientific foundation. A people who don’t have scientific freedom and the freedom to research and to develop themselves and the freedom to even know what freedom is.”
