Teaching has always been there.
Before Veakey Labs, there was basketball coaching, private tutoring, a year teaching technology during Covid, substitute teaching at a training center in Geneva, a summer at a secondary school. Over 480 teens supported in total, across every teaching context. Passing things on came well before code.
Technology was added little by little: infrastructure, programming, all the way to a Discord bot connected to a search engine and an AI, built together with my students.
And then there was that bus stop, waiting for the kids to board the bus to go skiing. Next to me, someone who wanted to start over completely: after a career in radio, into code. Three sessions of two to three hours later, that person was coding on their own. Docker, .NET Core, Angular: a first session that ended at 11pm without solving a basic database bug, then the next one where everything clicked. Not because they were naturally gifted. Because we moved at their own pace, on a real project, not an exercise.
The spark is always the same, whether on a basketball court or in front of a terminal: it happens when you stop following a lesson and start building something of your own.
Learning depends on a lot of things: context, the day's mood, and above all everyone's own pace — an 8-year-old doesn't learn the same way as an adult starting over. That's why the groups stay small: to stay available enough to teach differently depending on who's in front of me, not run the same lesson for everyone.
Veakey Labs Academy is that belief put into practice: small groups, a human pace, real projects, whether you're 8 and want to build your first game, or you want to start over completely, like that person at the bus stop.
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