About us

Welcome to the original digital entrepreneur camp, built around you and for YOU. We hope that My Kwan Academy will help you to discover and nurture your passions.

Origins

Growing up in Paris, I have always been fascinated by technologies and entrepreneurship. I found my passion in supporting startup mainly in the Entertainment industry. I helped the Movie Industry to run digital through my finance boutique, dedicated to management of innovation. Graduated from an engineering school and later from a finance institution, I have then been a witness of the emergence of new technologies, new media and new businesses over the last two decades. Our way to work, communicate, promote ideas, businesses, and conceive products and services have radically changed. I realised that coding and creative activities also helps shape one’s way of thinking, by structurally decomposing and analysing a problem. It is rather the same when you deal with entrepreneurship.

Working in Luxembourg and living in London, I bring up solely my three handsome and smart boys. As a father, I did not find camps sustaining my kids about exploring tech and innovation, neither entrepreneurship. Indeed school does not provide any real picture about what it is to work in a company. As they have grown up and have to decide about their future and their studies, I thought as a father it was quite compulsory that I provide them with a small knowledge about innovation, digital activities and entrepreneurship. Coding is also a highly creative act, as it allows me to create in a whole new medium, i.e. technology, to transform my ideas into an app, website etc. That feeling is very empowering.

In addition, my experience in teaching entrepreneurship or innovation management in different well known schools or conferences gave me the conviction that digital entrepreneurship is the next literacy for the millennial generation. With that, I felt compelled to help students in Western Europe to gain digital literacy, through My Kwan Academy and STEM programs. Developed by a passionate and top caliber team of passionate entrepreneurs and educators, our structured, unique and robust curriculum aims to challenge students to think, act responsibly and be a creative leader in the digital era.

I hope that the skills, experiences, mentorships and friendships our students experience at Kwan Academy can jumpstart them to a lifelong journey of creative pursuits and endless career possibilities.

Our flagship program is coached by bright students and coaches coming on their off times to give their inputs. Rewards for bright students can include mentoring through the year on personal projects, internship in startups or bigger companies.

In each session, you’ll explore an inspiring campus, make new friends, and build skills that prepare you for a world with millions of open STEM jobs.

Pierre MICHEA
Founder
My Kwan Academy

Company

My KWAN Academy was founded with the mission to provide students with digital literacy and engineering thinking skills and empowering them to become creators with technology. Using proprietary curriculum adapted from Silicon Valley high schools, our learning programs are incorporated in learning environments designed to stimulate inquiry based learning, logical thinking and creative problem solving.

Since 2010, Pierre was working in startups environment as a consultant and volunteered to teach about entrepreneurship to several schools levels.

Moving back to Luxembourg in 2017, Pierre then began to design coding and STEM courses and develop curriculum for primary and secondary students to learn not just coding skills, but also computational and entrepreneur thinking.

We are excited to empower our next generation to become creative leaders in the digital era, for their future career and for driving social change. Join our journey! :)

Approach

With curriculum adapted from lean startup approach, our goal is to equip each student with the knowledge and skills to transform their ideas into reality with code. Adopting a project-based learning approach in the classroom, our students apply programming concepts via hands-on challenges to solve different real world problems. In an increasingly technological world, we empower students with the skills and confidence to explore their creativity, take pride in their creations and pursue their interests.

The team

KWAN instructors are a group of passionate individuals that not only love to teach, but also love working with children. Our team of instructors take pride in challenging our students to go the extra mile, and see ourselves as facilitators and careers for our students in class. Our instructors are often found hanging out with students after class, catching up on new STEM topics, coding languages and debugging their projects.

Angelo

Operations & Customer Success

Angelo is graduated in Public policies and spent his career in the field of long life learning. He started as counsellor in professional orientation for the youngster. He moved to Luxembourg in 2008 and became the head of rugby school of CSCE. He has now put his experience in working with youngsters into the Kwan adventure.

Clémence

Deputy project manager

Clemence has been studying at Kedge Business School Marseille for 3 years. She began a Master’s degree in Marketing and will graduate next year. She passed a degree to be camp counselor a few years ago and was also young ambassador of the UNICEF in 2013.

Jean-David

Marketing

Art Director and Graphic Designer, Jean-David is specialized in innovative digital solutions thanks to his skills in User Experience and User Interface Design and also in brand creation applied on innovative products. His expertise is based on his previous experiences in several start-ups.

Matthieu

Finance

Having spent three years as part-time CFO, Mathieu has more than 10 years’ experience in corporate finance as CFO in post-production companies. His financial expertise includes financial reporting, KPIs, cash flow, debt management, financial strategies, budgets and business plans.

Octave

Innovation

A graduate of Sciences Po and ESSEC, Octave is co-founder and CEO of Melusyn. His background is in business and media and he is passionate about the film &TV industry. Octave Bory has worked for major IT and telecom companies designing and selling B2B and B2C software.

Pierre

Development

A Finance graduate from HEC Paris, Pierre is an entrepreneur in the digital image and audio industries. The past 15 years have been dedicated to coaching and advising business in all aspects of financing. Since setting up 7th Degree Consulting and Gear Up, Pierre has focused on solutions to accelerate funding for startups.

Vincent

Learning experience

Vincent teach marketing at the university level at the United Business Institute and Lycee Classique de Diekirch. He also took the decision to combine his marketing knowledge with his real passion: living healthily. He ended up creating Naturalis Balance, an e-commerce which sell natural organic food supplements.

You

Think you have something to contribute to the team? We'd still love to hear from you!

Steering Committee

The companies work closely with us to provide the uses cases and accurate materials. They also support financially and technically the project but among all they will coach workshops and attend keynotes. The entrepreneurs from the committee are keen to have a with young generation and empower it with ideas and try to make something BIG.