Equipping tomorrow's youth through facilitating innovative routes to STEAM education
Jump Institute's mission is to get students excited about STEAM. Simple right?! Our platform will facilitate students posting various forms of media such as videos, pictures and audio content, detailing prevalent STEAM concepts. The platform will also afford students the opportunity to pose questions to which they don't understand, or need a little extra help and get answers from peers.
Envision a community of creators, thinkers, leaders with courage and confidence to “be the teacher”. We believe that social networking can be utilized as an accelerator in our students’ motivation. Through interactions and connections made all in the interest of education students will lead discussions and find their own answers.
Studies have shown that students struggle with applying concepts to the real-world. At JumpIN we will help to solve this problem by posting videos that connect concepts in the classroom to the real world. With hopes that students are inspired to post their own videos, as well as questions they need help with and get answers from their peers.
We’re building a diverse community of students from across the country whom each approach learning in different ways. Each with a unique perspective, who see our core STEAM concepts from a similar lens. The idea is that through a student-led approach each student can assist and learn from another student.
Building a community of leaders who are capable and ready to innovate and create.
Developing the astrophysicists, engineers, developers, and analysts of tomorrow.
Facilitating the application of concepts and theories taught in the classroom to the real world.
Jarron Thomas is an entrepreneur, mentor, community builder and success champion. He has spent 5 years in the tech and consulting industry finding solutions for Fortune 500 companies. As a mentor he was inspired by witnessing students struggle in the classroom at applying concepts and was determined tofind a solution. Coupled with his own struggles as a child to find other students who had similar interests Jump Institute was formed. His passion lies in building his community and giving every student a level playing field as it pertains to education.
Randy Stitt - Director-Communications & Strategic Partnerships. Randy B. Stitt is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina and a graduate of East Carolina University where he studied Public Relations and Africana Studies. He is an educator, communicator, connector, and public relations practitioner, who focuses heavily on purposeful engagement and solution-focused strategy. His one hope is that he will be able to inspire the upcoming generation, especially youth of color, to unlock their potential to change the world.
“If we’ve got the brightest student at the best school sharing what he/she knows and the brightest student at what is deemed “not the best” school sharing what he/she knows, then all of the students in our community are inspired to share what they know and are all better for it.”
“It levels the playing field.”
— Our Founder
