Amplify is a free initiative that aims to empower young students in the design and use of emerging digital environments, with a focus on the metaverse.

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YCDI is excited to collaborate with Jesus College at The University of Oxford in the UK to achieve the goal of responsible use and design of the metaverse. 

The project objectives include identifying student concerns related to internet and metaverse usage, co-designing ethical guidelines and metaverse spaces with students, and evaluating the success of the project.

YCDI PEP Talks is an educational experience for Grade 5 students to learn about technology by creating animated games or stories that will prepare them for PEP.

After learning the fundamentals of Scratch Programming the students will go through the process of creating their own game or storyline based off of a PEP topic.

Digital Learning Day celebrates the use of innovative and forward-thinking technology in learning. It uses tech to enhance a student’s educational experience.

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2020's Digital Learning Day was an exciting partnership with Innovate10X, featuring workshops to introduce 4th, 5th and 6th graders to programming games and robotics. High school students created their own websites from scratch using HTML & CSS.

Youth Can Do IT has partnered with “Going Global: Digital Jobs and Gender in Haiti”, a research initiative that seeks to increase women's access to employment in Haiti by building digital capacities in the field of Information Technology. The project will assist 300 young women in Haiti between 2018 and 2019 in securing online employment opportunities in overseas markets. 

The YCDI Summer Camp is a 2-week summer camp where the students will have an intensive, hands-on experience of emulating a social enterprise to solve or raise awareness about social issues in Jamaica. The participants will be broken into teams/departments in the company based on their career interest. Each team will be provided with a mini-deliverable that will be regarded as their contribution to the overall company.