When Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine started the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for the Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, their mission was to find young individuals who would be the future of a rapidly growing field. Their ultimate goal was to breed the next student who would become the next Mark Zuckerburg at Facebook or the next person who created a start-up like Instagram or Snapchat.
Currently, there are 25-30 students enrolled in the program at USC, learning from everything like 3D printing and computer programming, learning from some of the best at their field alongside like-minded young students. One student from the class of 2018, Arjun Mehta, gave HYPETRAK a first-hand account of what it’s like to be in Dre & Jimmy’s innovative program and talked about the stuff he’s learning.
“The school has done an excellent job at attracting a solid group of brilliant yet highly genuine, down-to-earth kids for the first class, and it truly is an honor to work with them everyday and join them on this journey. While each and every one of my classmates is amazing in their own distinct ways, we are all connected by a simple desire to build cool stuff that will make the world a better place.
Two weeks ago, Jimmy visited our on-campus workspace and checked out some of the class projects we’ve been working on. In addition, for one of our classes titled “Innovator’s Roundtable,” we present products and solutions to people like Ian Rogers, CEO of Beats Music, and Rodney Mullen, widely known as the godfather of skateboarding.“
Read his very informative account over at HYPETRAK. You can learn more about the USC program by visiting their website.
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