“I want to be an Engineer and an Architect,”Jordell Hodge who made 13 years this week, told The Anguillian.
An obviously brilliant Second Form student at Campus B, at the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School, the youngster has every intention of achieving the double technical professions.
He has shown much promise in his Design Technology class where he recently excelled with top marks for his project: a vehicle garage with an automatic door, operating on the same principle as the modern garages seen at dwelling houses inAnguilla.
The automatic garage door and automatic lights operate on a motor from one of Jordell’s old toy cars which he played with during his baby years. The power source is two AA batteries,but if he wished it could have been a battery pack he saved from his past toys.
“The teacher said that my design was the best in the class and I got 25 over 25 for my marks,” he told The Anguillian. His project was different from what was actually assigned to the class – to build a house out of cardboard. He in fact drew a plan for a house with a garage and an automatic door. The project was perfected with the assistance of his father, Joshua Hodge, a well-known architect and builder at Island Harbour.
Young Jordell is currently planning another project for the school’s upcoming annual science fair. “I will be presenting a hydro-generator,” he said confidently. “It will work off water instead of gas.”
He is no doubt thinking about alternative sources of energy, a matter now under much discussion in Anguilla.
Apart from Jordell’s father, his uncle, Lanville Harrigan, is a driving force behind him. Lanville, who was one of Anguilla’s leading cricketers, is not only proud of his nephew, but vows to help him to succeed at every step of his life.
