Global Innovators Bootcamp is FutureHack’s transformative 2-week program based on the MIT Innovation and Entrepreneurship frameworks. The program is designed to create independent, self-motivated leaders, capable of identifying and solving the global challenges of tomorrow. Students will take a journey of self-discovery to identify their passion and purpose. They will also learn about the disruptive impact of future technologies such as robotics, 3D printing, and coding. At the end of the camp, students will form teams, ideate and pitch their own business plan to a panel of judges from industry and education.
SOCIAL MISSION & DIVERSITY
@ FutureHack
EQUALITY & DIVERSITY:
At FutureHack, we believe in giving everyone an equal opportunity to be a leader in the digital age, regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation or financial status. The FutureHack Global Community is growing quickly, already consisting of students and mentors from over 20 countries and territories around the world. We believe this multi-dimensional diversity is one of the best ways for our students to learn empathy, culture, social entrepreneurship, teamwork, and leadership – most teams will feature students from at least 3 countries or more!
OUR SOCIAL MISSION:
We are a social enterprise and up to 40% of our students are given full or partial scholarships in accordance to their financial need. So if you know you deserve to be a “FutureHacker,” but your family may have difficulty in paying the fees, don’t worry, just be sure to mention this in your application and apply for our need-based scholarships.
Why the FutureHack
Global Innovators Bootcamp?
Self Discovery
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ― Aristotle
We start by taking students on an inward journey to learn more about themselves and to discover their true passions, talents, and purpose. We help our students maximize their future success by providing in-depth lessons on how to harness their strengths and align their talents with the technological roadmap of the future.
Future Technologies Training
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas Edison
Because of the disruptive impact of new technologies such as AI, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and AR/VR, we take students to the forefront of the digital revolution by introducing them to technologies such as Microbots, Arduino, Lego Robotics, EXLhub Coding, NV Bots 3D printing, VR/AR and many more. Students will infuse these technologies with their passions and talents by using MIT’s 24 Steps of Disciplined Entrepreneurship. Through presentations, insightful discussions, and highly engaging hands-on activities led by experts, students and their teams will learn how to develop an exponential mindset and apply these technologies to their ideas and talents to create solutions that can make a positive impact to the world.
MIT Entrepreneurship
“Innovations = Invention x Commercializations” — Bill Aulet, MIT
Students will be taught MIT’s 24 steps of Disciplined Entrepreneurship. Our instructors have been trained to teach the rigorous MIT Entrepreneurship Curriculum by MIT Professor BIll Aulet and the MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp team. The MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp was created to disseminate MIT ‘s entrepreneurship methodology around the world, to nurture more entrepreneurial talent to help solve critical problems within their own communities. The steps are broken down into 6 essential questions for a startup: Who is your customer? What can you do for your customer? How does your customer acquire your product? How do you make money off your product? How do you design & build your product? How do you scale your business? Armed with this new knowledge, students can identify real-world problems, form teams to ideate and pitch their real-world solutions to a panel of professional investors and entrepreneurs.
Global Community
“The strength of the pack is in the wolf and the strength of the wolf is in the pack” — R. Kipling, The Jungle Book
FutureHack attracts high-achieving, self-motivated individuals who want to “be the change they wish to see in the world” as Ghandi stated. By living and working with their peers, students from around the world learn about cultural differences through teamwork, negotiation, and listening, thus helping them understand problems from different perspectives. Our fun and transformative programs have created a quickly growing network of FutureHackers from around the globe, spanning 12 countries and 17 languages.
In addition to a global FutureHack network, our students also have access to MIT’s Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp network whose members serve as mentors and instructors for FutureHack. The FutureHack network is an invaluable resource that students take home from camp along with their memories and their new found entrepreneurial mindset.
Learn
to be
future-proof
Create your Own Future:
The FutureHack Global Innovators Bootcamp is a tech, entrepreneurship, and leadership immersive bootcamp for teenagers. Over the last three years, we have brought together a very select group of brilliant teenagers from over 20 countries to LIVE, LEARN, CREATE and CHANGE, turning them from ordinary students to Innovators and Leaders with Entrepreneurial Superpowers! With the help of world-class entrepreneurs from MIT, Harvard, and top CEOs as instructors, students “learn how to turn their dreams and passions into solutions, and their solutions into a global revolution.”
Bootcamp Summer 2021 Details
Dates
TBA
Students are encouraged to arrive on July 18th as orientation starts at the morning of the 19th
TBA: We may open up a second session at a later date
Who can apply?
Teenagers (age 13-18) from around the world
Language
All programs are conducted in English
Venue
MIT and Harvard University
Boston, MA, USA
Residence
Tufts University Dormitory
Room & Board Fee : US$1100
Fee
Tuition: US$3,900 (does not include room & board fee, air tickets, transportation and incidental expenses)
* This is a preliminary sample schedule and is subject to change
Testimonials
“FutureHack has taught me that you’re never too young to put yourself out there and make a difference — right now. I worked alongside peers from 11 countries to innovate and realized that there are no limits to what I can achieve. “
Divya Pinnaka
“Before I came to FutureHack, I didn’t see myself as an entrepreneur. I thought I was risk-averse and utterly devoid of charisma–and thus immediately disqualified from anything related to entrepreneurship. I had never been more wrong in my life; it took only a few days at FutureHack to realize that yes, entrepreneurship can be taught, and yes, I am an entrepreneur.”
Ankita Devasia
“I was fortunate enough to be a part of FutureHack’s inaugural class. I can honestly say that my 2 weeks spent at the bootcamp were some of the best, most worthwhile times in my entire life.”
Sophia Wang
“In FutureHack, you get real business advice and mentorship from successful MIT Entrepreneurs and instructors. I met friends from around the world and they all helped me overcome my language barrier and we worked great together as a team. After returning home, my goal is to help change my community through entrepreneurship. (Yang Yang has launched a community supported company called “Grandma’s Lunchbox” – where they help senior citizens make great home-cooked meals delivered straight to office workers)”
Yang Yang
“During the FutureHack Bootcamp, I was able to meet the people eager to innovate and change the world. Being able to spend a lot of time with so many people with different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives was key to helping us grow. FH taught me that it is definitely not too late to rediscover my potential. I would like to start my own successful VR company so that I can help the people in my country see the wonderful world we live in. After coming to FH, I have renewed my determination.”
Mahjou Jihen
“My favorite thing about FutureHack was the interesting lifelong friends that I made. One student can multiply four digit figures in his head and other students were great at robotics and coding and other cool things. So many smart and fun students from around the world. FH was such a wonderful surprise… wonderfully shocking and exciting!”
Pei Tan
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