The most intensive AI
training in the Caribbean.
Genius Bootcamp is not a passive course where you watch videos and forget everything by Friday. It is eight weeks of building real things, breaking them, and understanding why they work. That order is deliberate: you learn by doing and by recalling, not by watching, and the things you build and debug with your own hands are the things that stay.
You will start with the foundations of machine learning and end up training your own neural networks. Each week is a rung that rests on the one below it, so a hard idea in week five is reachable because of what you genuinely earned in weeks one to four. Everything is grounded in Caribbean context. The datasets are local. The problems are real. The skills transfer globally.
No computer science degree required. No prior coding experience required. What you need is consistency and the willingness to think hard, and a particular attitude to being stuck. Getting stuck is not a sign you do not belong here; it is the normal feeling of your brain stretching into something it cannot do yet. The word "yet" is doing real work in that sentence.
8 Weeks, 3 Days Per Week
Evening sessions designed around school and work schedules. Recordings available for every session.
In-Person + Online
Blended format. Kingston hub sessions plus live virtual access for participants across Jamaica.
100% Free for Jamaican Youth
Funded by The Genius Project. No registration fees, no hidden costs. Laptops can be borrowed where needed.
🧠 Why this format works for a growing brain
The bootcamp is built around two ideas that learning science keeps confirming. The first is that knowledge becomes skill through use: you remember and can apply what you actively build, break, and rebuild far more than what you passively watch. That is why you write code from week one instead of waiting until you have "covered the theory." The second is scaffolding. A genuinely hard subject like neural networks is reachable only because each week sits on the one before, and instructors give you a supported worked example first, then fade that support until you can do it alone. You spend the whole programme working at the edge of what you can manage with a little help, which is exactly where learning happens fastest.
The hardest part of an intensive is not the maths, it is the moment you feel stuck and start to doubt you belong. This is where mindset decides outcomes. Treating a failed model as "I have not solved this yet" rather than "I am not smart enough" is the difference between the students who finish and the ones who fade, and our 92% completion rate is built as much on that culture as on the curriculum. Add the autonomy of picking your own final project and the sense of building alongside a cohort who have your back, and you get motivation that comes from inside, the kind that lasts eight demanding weeks.
Active learningScaffoldingGrowth mindsetSelf-Determination Theory
