Demario Davis and his passion for seeing young people succeed heavily align with the mission of YEP. Davis believes that camps like the one YEP offers are critical to building a community where young people can find like-minded individuals that can collaborate to explore new content and spur innovative thoughts.

In fact, if Davis could rewind time, he would have taken advantage of similar opportunities as a teen.

“I would have signed up for all the programming classes, all the development classes, all the graphic design classes that I could have because it’s really the age of the creators.”

“And so the more that you can do as far as coding, as far as graphic developing and those things, the more ahead of the curve you’re gonna be,” Davis continued.

While Davis can’t turn back the hands of time, it is not lost upon groups like YEP the type of influence athletes like him can have on impressionable young people.

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“But then to have him really speak like in a very informed way, very intelligent way about all of this new technology and to kind of like break down some of those like stereotypes that, you know, some of the kids like, ‘Oh, this is a cool football player. I might wanna be interested in this cause somebody like Damario Davis has co-signed this,’” McCall continued.

Leveraging his influence, Davis is doing a soft launch of his school, Devoted Dreamers Academy, with an after-school program for grades 8-12.

The official launch will take place in 2023.

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