Curiculum for Various Programs at Brightfield Tech Academy

Flagship Program - Explorers Program for High School(SHS/JHS) Leavers

• Estimated months: 5

• Number of students per track: 10(based on center size and number of laptops)

• Industrial Experience:

  • Monthly Tech Talk with Tech Experts
  • Host Mid-track Hackathon
  • Host End-track Hackathon with meetup with Tech Experts
  • Trip to visit tech hubs,institutions and startups in Accra, and Kumasi

• Exit Plans:

  • Admission into STEM related programs at reputable institutions either as scholars or fee paying students.

• Facilitators:

  • Oliver Mensah

Week 1

• Computer Programming: Beyond the basic use of computers
• Introduction to Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Week 2

• Page Layout with HTML
• Personal HTML Projects to replicate:
  • http://txti.es/
  • http://www.toad.com/
  • http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
  • http://txti.es/how

Week 3 and 4

• Style Pages with CSS
• Personal HTML with CSS Projects:
  • https://upbeat-hermann-1c2c7e.netlify.app/
  • https://jolly-kalam-23776e.netlify.app/mytunes/#
  • https://loving-pike-f67420.netlify.app/
  • https://unruffled-archimedes-f5a9f1.netlify.app/
• Introduction to Git, GitHub and GitHup Pages
  • Git and GitHub Tutorials
  • Not only GitHub - Other Code Repository Management Software
  • Deploy your Code through Repository

Week 5

• Advance CSS
  • CSS Layout
• Mobile First - Building Responsive Websites
  • Responsive Web Design Basics
  • Responsive Web Design
• Project
  • Rebuild the ACME Web Solution Page to be responsive with HTML and CSS
  • Rebuild the Parallax Website to be responsive with HTML and CSS

Week 6

• Responsive Web Design - Standard CSS Only Frameworks
  • Introduction
  • Building Responsive Websites withW3.css
  • Template W3.css Projects

Week 7

• Responsive Web Design - CSS(Including jQuery/JS) Frameworks
  • Bootstrap Website
  • Introduction to Bootstrap By W3Schools

Week 8

• Group Project

Week 9 & 10

• Building Interactive Websites with JavaScript
  • Introduction to JavaScript
  • What we can use JavaScript for
  • JavaScript HTML DOM
• Programming with JavaScript
  • JavaScript Fundamentals

Week 11 & 12

• Advanced JavaScript

Week 13

• Introduction with JAMstack Development

Week 14

• Group Project

Week 15

• Introduction to Fullstack Application Development
• Fullstack Application Development with Node(Express), MongoDB

Week 16 & 17

• Fullstack Application Development with Node(Express), MongoDB

Week 18

• Group Project

Week 19

• Final Project

Week 20

• Securing Your First Tech Role

• Writing CV
• Setting up Porfolio Page

Career Program

• Estimated months: 8

• Number of students per track: 10(based on center size and number of laptops)

• Industrial Experience:

  • Monthly Tech Talk with Tech Experts
  • Host Mid-track Hackathon
  • Host End-track Hackathon with meetup with Tech Experts
  • Trip to visit tech hubs,institutions and startups in Accra, and Kumasi

• Exit Plans:

  • Internship(Remote/Onsite)
  • Partner with organizations building startup organizations for internship opportunities
  • In-house Contract Projects
  • Source for tech companies with projects they can work on internally
  • Startup Builders: Partner with startup programs to build startuppers

• Mentors:

  • Mike Perry Attara Yeboah

Week 1 - 20

• Complete the Explorer Program and choose a focus area(frontend, backend or fullstack)