DBH's HistoryJourney
Growing up in poverty, Kevin Epps understood the benefit of community outreach, as he was a direct beneficiary. He grew up wanting to be a scientist and game developer due to his love for science and math. Kevin, being an accomplished Technical Lead for Cisco Systems with a background music production(previously known as Artonius Tsetsuna) and video game development(as owner of United Minds Games, LLC), he felt that he should pass along his knowledge to the youth. He understood how overcoming narratives about science and math brought him great confidence to compete in todays world and excel. Kevin's been teaching music and game development to the youth for over 12 years. And due to this experience, he decided to merge these separate programs into one, and Digital Brilliance Hour was born in 2017.
2 Aug 2021
DPS Vendor
Became an approved DPS vendor.
2 Aug 2021
19 Jul 2021
Summer Camps
Due to the curriculum being proven, DBH starts it's Summer Camp for the first time.
6 May 2021
Proven Curriculum
Scalable Curriculum was proven a huge success for a 100% virtual workshop with people from 2 different time zones.
6 May 2021
10 Feb 2021
Legit on Paper
DBH became a business entity
17 Dec 2020
Scalable Curriculum
DBH learned a lot from the virtual classes and realized that there the curriculum had to be scalable to make virtual work even better. Wrote curriculum to be more scalable to support both virtual and in-person.
17 Dec 2020
24 Mar 2020
The Demic
The pandemic hit and DBH was forced to scale down an in-person program to virtual. Was hard to give the similar feel for what was done in person. But led to a new avenue being discovered.
01 Feb 2020
CAARE
Partnered with Dr. Harvey Hinton of CAARE Inc to expand where DBH is being offered. Now at 3 facilities.
01 Feb 2020
01 Sep 2019
Beats Lab to replace Music Program
Partnered with Aaron Hope of the Hope Foundation to head the Music Program with their Beats Lab program
01 Sep 2018
Expansion of relationships
DBH started expanding their relationships with local music artists like IAMSHAME, NaCynze, JGunn, Akili The Bull, .etc. Formed partnership with Playground Studios for audio recording and growth starting to happen.
01 Sep 2018
01 Sep 2017
DBH was born
Decided to blend both programs into one program to cover more ground. Digital Brilliance Hour was born. DBH was debuted at both John Avery Boys and Girls Club of Durham, NC and Durham Teen Center(now through Durham Parks and Rec). Began partnerships with Bull City Sound Studio for Audio Recording and CD Duplication.
01 Aug 2015
Founder - Kevin Epps
Starts a Game Development program for John Avery Boys and Girls Club of Durham, NC. Would begin to alternate between both programs each school semester.
01 Aug 2015
01 Sep 2016
Founder - Kevin Epps
Starts offering both Music Production Program and Game Development through Durham Teen Center through the Office on Youth program through the City of Durham.
01 Oct 2012
Founder - Kevin Epps
Starts a Music Production program for John Avery Boys and Girls Club of Durham, NC
01 Oct 2012
08 Feb 2011
Founder - Kevin Epps
Because of his experience and love for community service, he began mentoring at John Avery Boys and Girls Club of Durham, NC.