The Iovine and Young Education Group, led by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, is launching a new learning center.
Set to launch at Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta by August 2024, the center will initially focus on 9th-grade STEAM Academy students. These students will get the opportunity to explore different fields, businesses, and industries, with the goal of finding solutions to challenges in those areas.
“We want to give the next generation of students access to a proven, revolutionary learning experience where technology meets design and entrepreneurship,” Iovine said. “This will not only prepare them for the jobs of today. But equip them to reimagine and shape the jobs, technologies, and creative enterprises of the future.”
He added, “We are thrilled with our results in higher ed and the Los Angeles high school, and hope for similar success with Atlanta Public Schools.”
Annually, the incoming freshman class cohort will expand, granting them the chance to participate. The program’s complete integration across all four grade levels is set to be accomplished by 2027-2028.
Throughout the years, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine have dedicated their attention to philanthropic work. In 2014, the Beats co-founders introduced the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California. Years later, Dr. Dre said that his intention was to provide assistance to the younger version of himself.
“Here’s a place that you can go where there’s something that you can learn that you’re really interested in,” Dre explained. “That guy that didn’t have an opportunity, that had to scratch and figure out things on his own. That had the curiosity but didn’t have these type of opportunities.
