Generating Genius is a registered charity registration: 1107777.
Generating Genius summer school is a charity with a mission to encourage and develop talented students from diverse backgrounds to aspire to professions such as medicine, scientific research, engineering and business. We are partners with the University Of the West Indies and our aim is to establish a training academy for young people.
Generating Genius has:
- Developed a unique methodology in teaching inner-city boys high level science and engineering.
- Demonstrated that the development process used in football and cricket academies can be applied to science, technology, engineering and medicine.
- Trained boys to be Science Student mentors, which means they lead sessions for other students.
The project areas will include:
- Robotics
- Chemistry
- Biotechnology
- Microbiology
- Clinical Medicine
- Engineering
The programme comes fully endorsed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Professor Nigel Harris, who says:
"The programme has my full endorsement and has so far, on its first round, attracted the strong satisfaction of the parents of the first 30 boys selected, elicited excellent responses from the boys involved and has stirred a great deal of positive public commentary both here and in the wider Caribbean. The programme has its critics of course, mainly those who question why we should target males. Well, I believe that there is general recognition of the fact that females form the overwhelming majority of students in our University and that an effort is sorely needed to discover how we can interest more gifted, young males in pursuing solid, high level careers through tertiary education."
