What if Copernicus, Marie Curie, or Darwin had been born into poverty on a distant third world island.
Imagine yourself with little communication, on a subsistence farm.
Maybe you had some books and could read and write, and you loved science and building things.
Maybe you had some idea of an outside world far, far away… far outside your reach…
But Now
We Enter a New Age
An Age of Intelligent Machines
Things Have Changed
the
2nd
poorest country
in the western hemisphere is
NICARAGUA
Nicaragua has 6+ million people. If just .05% have the scientific talent and drive,
that’s 3000 potential untapped geniuses in Nicaragua.
Bright Capable Minds Untapped
OMETEKE is the dream of creating a technological, education
and entrepreneurial hotspot on Ometepe Island.
Centered around a Hackademy.
Hackademy is an Attitude
A philosophy A motivation
A Hackademy:
is a computer and engineering hacking school that turns traditional education upside down.
No Tuition
No Teachers
No Classes
100% Problem Solving
A flexible, rigorous, focused, engineering and programming environment running on peer-to-peer, inquiry-based and project-based learning.
Students control what they learn, when they learn, and how they learn.
Problem-solving, teamwork and critical thinking mindset are created. Rapid skill building and entrepreneurship are the result.
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More About Hackademy
LINKS
Overview of 42 https://www.42.us.org/why-attend-42/
Canada http://hackademy.ca
Sinaloa Mexico Hackademy https://www.hackademy.mx
Details
OMETEKE PROPOSAL
Build a tech community on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua
Leapfrogging from subsistence agriculture into digital technologies
A Multi-part community, with a philosophy of bootstrapping, sustainability, curiosity and cooperation
Location & Resource
A Catholic Orphanage
And a Former monastery
- 120 acres
- Room for 400 students
- A lakefront hotel
- Various building and support infrastructure.
More About Ometepe Island
LINKS
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The Ometeke Constellation Has 4 Stars
STEM School
A launchpad foundation for 21st Century skills. This requires a new kind of early education. OSTEM will serve as a local school and a source for Hackademy students and employees.
HACKADEMY
The big star of the constellation. Hyperfocused on hacking philosophy, building real world software and hardware skills thru peer-to-peer real world problem solving.
Incubator
This is the business incubator had captures and helps build great ideas that come out of the schools
Makery
A 21st Century workshop, a Makery, with laser cutters and 3D printers. A for profit, cost centered workshop supporting Ometepe.
Ometepe Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics School
This Preparatory school’s goal is foment creative, enthusiastic learning through the best, innovative 21st century models, such as Finland’s Phenomenon Learning. With a focus on peer driven support, internet resources and self-reliance. Essentially, give students the tools and support to teach themselves, individually and collectively, engaging creativity, ambition, peer collaboration, and goals.
English language immersion, STEM skills, and emotional self-responsibility will also be a focus.
Processes for self and group accountability, such as: truth telling, “Circle and Counsel” and explanation/consensus replace adversarial Debate Club and Student Senate.
* paying (international) students
The ultimate result is that the school would prepare local students and others for the Ometeke Hackademy.
Principles
Early English Language Immersion
Music and Math
School Garden
Learning thru Projects on the Island
Hacking Plastic Junk into Tools
Sustainability Projects
Graduation Projects
OMETEKE Hackademy
This Preparatory school’s goal is foment creative, enthusiastic learning through the best, innovative 21st century models, such as Finland’s Phenomenon Learning. With a focus on peer driven support, internet resources and self-reliance. Essentially, give students the tools and support to teach themselves, individually and collectively, engaging creativity, ambition, peer collaboration, and goals.
English language immersion, STEM skills, and self-responsibility will be the focus.
Processes for self and group accountability, such as: truth telling, “Circle and Counsel” and explanation/consensus replace adversarial Debate Club and Student Senate.
* paying (international) students
The ultimate result is that the school would prepare local students and others for the Ometeke Hackademy.
OJARDIN Incubator
A business incubator is designed to capture economic opportunities. To attract investors, to keep talented students on island by providing opportunities and fostering their entrepreneurial ideas. To build the skills and economy.
The Ojardin is where entrepreneurial ideas combine with tech skills and business development support to grow into profitable, problem solving businesses. This is the classic Silicon sweet spot that attracts investors and stake-holders of all sorts.
Even small internet businesses could generate a huge change in Ometepe, as digital epoch businesses are a scale of magnitude more profitable than modernist systems.
OMAKERY
a 21st century workshop
A for profit, cost centered workshop meant to provide access to traditional tools and 21st-century tools.
A Makery is a post industrial tool shop.
Omakery would be a public resource used entire community to support hack engineering projects. The Omakery would be a regular tool shop but also have 3-D printers, laser cutters, 3-D scanners and various other computer driven tools. Students and locals could hack engineering problems with these tools.
Analysis Tools
Metalworking Tools
Wood Workshop
Electonics Repair
Appliance Repair
2D Laser Cutter
3d Plastic Printers
3D Scanner
Principles
- Public, for Profit, self-supporting
- A Makery is a post industrial tool shop.
- Omakery would be a public resource used entire community to support hack engineering projects. The Omakery would be a regular tool shop but also have 3-D printers, laser cutters, 3-D scanners and various other computer driven tools. Students and locals could hack engineering problems with these tools.
More Ometeke Constellation
Hardware
The mission critical Hardware Station sits between the other parts of the Ometeke Constellation, mediating, managing, building, repairing and finding hardware solutions.
This is a critical task in a very poor country with two hot seasons, Humid and Dusty. Access to parts and services are mostly non-existent.
Adult Ed
OSTEM can also provide offer classes for adults, including tuition classes. These would be aimed at students who are not fully ready to enter the Hackademy. We could also offer fee-based classes for ex-pats and visitors.
Business Spin Outs
With perseverance, the OJARDIN should nurture and bring to self-sufficiency businesses, that can then spin out. Perhaps they will leave the island, but hopefully some will remain.