Jaylen Brown has designed courses that champion STEM education to empower students.
As the founder of the 7uice Foundation, he aims to create better educational outcomes for underserved youth of color, with support from institutions, organizations, and social change leaders, its website mentions.
Its four pillars include:
- Entrepreneurship and financial literacy
- Health and wellness
- Leadership and activism
- Sustainability and technology
The foundation also offers a Bridge Program in partnership with MIT’s Media Lab with a four-day camp held during the summer for students in eighth through 12th grade.
Brown designed a science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) curriculum for the program, which includes space exploration, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence, as he revealed during a conversation on “The Stephen A. Smith Show.”
“I designed a curriculum over at MIT pretty much every summer… I take kids from Dorchester, from Roxbury, from underrepresented communities and build the bridge for them at MIT,” he explained to Smith. “I think that’s important because they get the exposure from the STEM- and STEAM-based curriculums that can also help shape their social mobility, so just by putting in this environment, allowing them to get internships, allowing them to sign up for different programs, allowing them to be in a space where they see their self being successful instead of being in a place that, you know, there’s not too many opportunities.”
He added, “I think that’s what the Bridge Program is about, and that’s what 7uice Foundation has funded.”
The Bridge Program, now in its fourth year, has included seminars — some led by Brown — as well as yoga, interview sessions with MIT professors, and a session focused on the art of mixing music.
Beyond his work with students, Brown also launched the Boston XChange (BXC) in August 2024. The nonprofit is providing professional coaching, access to capital, tools, and workplaces to the creator economy and entrepreneurs, as AFROTECH™ previously reported.
With the support of its partners, Boston XChange has launched an incubator and accelerator that will provide up to $100,000 in grants to help recipients develop products in industries such as design, arts, entertainment, and culinary.
