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Jeremy Stephen, Director of Polymath.

Future developers recognised

Polymath is engaging young minds as it seeks out the next generation of software developers.

The International Business Company (IBC) based in Barbados is the global leader in software solutions that enable assets to be digitised, distributed, fractionally owned, and ultimately liquidated.

On Friday night, six past and present students of The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus who successfully completed an extensive 12-week workshop offered by the IBC were presented with Certificates of Achievement having demonstrated competence in using ReactJS and Solidity to build decentralised apps.

“Polymath is seeking to hire more local talent, but one of the challenges we face, is that there is not that much local talent that has the expertise and knowledge that we require on a day-to-day basis,” said Shannon Clarke, Software Developer at Polymath during the awards ceremony held at the 3Ws Pavilion, Cave Hill Campus.

The workshop, which got underway in November, 2018 focused on basic programming with HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build basic web applications, followed by building smart contracts on the blockchain.

“We started with 25 participants and six were successful having completed all exercises which included building a web application and demonstrating its use within a period of four hours. It was very challenging, but they pulled it off”.

Clarke explained that the certificate is Polymath’s method of verifying that the young men and women have demonstrated their working knowledge of these technologies, however he pointed out “It is unfortunately not an official certification backed by The UWI or any official examining body.”

“That is what we are aiming for in the coming months working directly with UWI, so that not only this certificate but future certifications that we issue, in partnership with the university would indeed be properly backed and then students can take it anywhere in the world,” he said.

“However, Polymath as a global leader in securities tokens would indeed back this certificate if these students then wanted to apply for a job at Google or any other blockchain company,” he added.

Congratulating the participants, Director of Polymath, Jeremy Stephen expressed, “We do have a lot of talented youngsters coming out of UWI that might not have had the experience before to operate at a top level”.

“Having the experience or at least the chance to tackle world leading technologies very much in their nascent stages is really impressive and says a lot about what Barbados has done; what The University of the West Indies has done in preparing students for this new world ahead.”

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