After spending years in various community empowerment and science related groups, Godiva Golding decided to combine her skills and passions to create STEAMHouse, a company dedicated to teaching young people robotics, coding and automation.

“STEAMHouse is a Science, Technology Engineering, Art, Mathematics (STEAM) education hub that stimulates creativity in young children while teaching them digital literacy through robotics, coding and digital design to equip them for the future,” said Golding, the company’s founder and CEO.

Since 2020, STEAMHouse has been working tirelessly towards its vision of “becoming the go-to hub for 21st Century learning and beyond … closing the skills gap between what is taught in schools and what is practised in industry”.

Said Golding: “There aren’t a lot of environments in the country that are learner centric, in many instances things are unnecessarily hard and not conducive to development, almost as if they are asking you to prove that you are worthy to learn, to us the vehicle isn’t important, what children need to compete is a skillset they can use from as early as possible,” said Golding.

“At STEAMHouse, we teach kids core robotics, coding and digital design and then, at the end, students work and present a passion project. Because it’s so hands-on, our learners are generally very excited to engage with our programming – when you give students the freedom, they create some amazing things, some build games, text-to-speech generators, climate change apps, and even sex education apps for girls,” she continued.

STEAMHouse has already taught more than 5,000 students across the Caribbean and is still eager to deliver its programme to more children in Jamaica.

“Sixty per cent of our cohort are girls, and that is because we make a targeted effort in ensuring young girls can be represented in the STEAM space, even if its usually male-dominated,” said the technologist.

Most recently, STEAMHouse has partnered with the South Camp Juvenile Remand and Correctional Centre for girls to offer its programmes to the wards.

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