The Amber HEART Academy is a collaboration between the Government of Jamaica (HEART/NSTA Trust) and the Amber Group. The initiative is the first of its kind in the Caribbean and will engage unattached youth across Jamaica with skills training in Software Programming Operations at the Stony Hill Heart Academy. The training is a one-year residential program where students are fully sponsored and provided accommodations, meals, equipment, and education.
The Amber HEART Academy intends to target 4000 youth annually through the programme.
This programme is a stepping-stone for Jamaica to become the technological hub of the region. PHP, HTML, Angular JS are few technologies on which the trainees are being trained currently
Upon graduation, the students will receive a Government recognized NCTVET certification and deserving participants to get a chance to work with Amber Group.
Upon graduation, the students will receive a Government recognized NCTVET certification and deserving participants to get a chance to work with Amber Group.
Amber MOEYI Academy is a formal partnership between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and the Amber Group to introduce coding from Grade 1 to 13 in every public school across the island. With this initiative, Jamaica has become the first country in the Caribbean and Latin America region to incorporate coding as a part of their national curriculum, teaching coding to students Every Week!
Students of Grade 10 to 13 will be trained Every Week! Coding sessions by Amber instructors will be a part of the country's regular curriculum. Delivering knowledge to approximately 223,201 students.
They will learn how to code using languages like C, Python, HTML and know more about the concepts of database management and Big Data.
Participants, upon graduation, will receive a government recognized NCTVET certificate from schools and fast track opportunity to Amber HEART Academy.
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The Amber MOEYI Train the Trainers Programme provides their Master Coders not only to get coding education to the students but also educate teachers in code literacy to make them technically proficient at teaching coding. With an aim to educate more than 15,000 teachers, Amber MOEYI ‘Train the Trainers Programme’ will encompass all the primary and secondary level teachers from Grade 1 to Grade 9 and conduct 3 week intensive training.
Lack of trained teachers is the biggest obstacle to getting computer science into the classroom, and software developers have little motivation to shift from the private sector into education. Policy makers and private funders must come together and fund training for teachers in computer science.
Post-training teachers will be able to include coding skills into their regular classroom sessions. This initiative will help maintain sustainability of the programme and provide Jamaica with their own faculty of coding instructors.