Jabari's Bio


Jabari is a freshman at Morgan State University, a Historically Black College, in Baltimore MD. He is in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He was accepted in the CAMRA, 2006 summer PACE program where he learned how to study for college level classes. Out of the 43 students in this summer program, 10 became full scholars and 12 provisional scholars. He was selected to be one of the provisional scholars. He became one of the new four full scholars after receiving a 3.3 GPA his first semester at Morgan State University. He now receives a full scholarship. NASA has sponsored this prestigious program to find future Black Leaders in Our Community. He works in Morgan State University Virtual Reality Lab where he learns more about using Maya and 3DSMax to create 3D characters and items to simulate real life events.

In High School Jabari was accepted into the Advanced Computer Applications program at the Washington County Technical High School. Out of 180 students, 20 were chosen to participate in the program. During that time, the students were decreasing in numbers, because their grades were too low to continue. His classes for his last year in High School were AP English 12, Honors Chemistry, Advanced Computer Applications, also College Algebra at Hagerstown Community College. In the Advanced Computer Applications class he learned how to use Maya and 3DSMax to create 3D characters and items to use in his own video game. Maya is used more for video games, because the creators of Halo 2 used Maya to make the game. 3DSMax is used for computer characters and animations. This class was very challenging, but it will prepare him for college.

During his High School years, he played football, ran track and field, ran cross county and wrestled for his school. He was on honor roll every year of high school.

During the summer of 2003 and 2005, he was chosen to go to Kentucky State University, a Historically Black College. He learned about agriculture and Computer Science from scientists and researchers. Out of 145 students, 36 were chosen to participate in the program. They were paid a stipend of $130 weekly for eight weeks. He met many friends; from all over the U.S. that were in high school, who will most likely be future leaders in the African-American community. His last year in High School he was the President of the National Technical Honors Society.