Mentors from world-leading institutions
8 weeks · Live online · Ages 14–18
Guided by mentors from MBZUAI, Stanford, MIT,
University of Rochester, and Harvey Mudd.
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You leave with a completed, deployable AI project — not a toy tutorial. Something you built, can explain, and are genuinely proud of.
Projects are scoped and structured to meet the standards of international and regional science fair competitions.
Startup Track students learn what it means to take an idea to a demo-ready product — pitching, iterating, and shipping under real constraints.
Theory only sticks when it's applied. Every concept is immediately embedded in hands-on work on your own project, every week.
Your mentors have built, published, and researched across four continents. They bring perspective no single classroom can replicate.
Structured feedback sessions, abstract writing workshops, and mock presentations to prepare you for the stage — whatever the competition.
Work in a small team to design, develop, and demo a functioning AI product. From idea to live demo in eight weeks.
For students who want to go further under the surface. Individual projects, structured research papers, and one-on-one mentor support.
Compressing AI models to run on mobile and edge devices without cloud dependency. Benchmarked multiple post-training quantization methods measuring accuracy-vs-memory trade-offs on real hardware.
Plain English instructions translated into autonomous drone actions. VLM-based task planning with self-correction loops and real-time decision-making — no code required, just speak.
A 3D-printed ESP32 wearable tracking pulse, blood oxygen, and temperature. An onboard ML model detects early influenza symptoms and surfaces alerts via a live web dashboard.
"I'd watched so many tutorials and never finished anything. In eight weeks I built a model from scratch, deployed it, and presented it. The difference is the structure — and having someone who actually cares whether you finish."
"My mentor had published research in my exact area. The feedback was specific, technical, and honest. I rewrote my methodology three times. That's exactly what I needed before my first science fair."
"I joined the Startup Track not expecting much. Instead we were building by week two. Our team shipped a working demo with real users by week seven. I've never moved that fast on anything."
"The weekly sessions didn't feel like a class at all — more like working through ideas with someone who actually gets it. They challenged what I was building and made me explain my thinking. That's what made the final project something I'm actually proud of."
"What I saw was my daughter becoming genuinely confident talking about her work. She presented her project at dinner and I didn't understand half of it. That's not something I expected to say."
"My son applied to two summer research camps and referenced his project in both applications. He got one of them. The programme gave him something real to show."
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