We are so excited you’re interested in being more involved with TKS and possibly becoming a TKS Mentor 🙌
Mentorship can significantly impact a young person's life trajectory. The right connection at the right time is the unlock they need to get to the next level 🚀
Thank you for taking the time to give back to this next generation of change makers, they are lucky to have you! We’re confident it will be a meaningful experience!
<aside> 📌 What is the mentorship program: An initiative to connect students and alumni with experts and industry professionals to get support on roadblocks or problems they're facing on projects
Why we have this network: As our students work on challenging projects, they often need support from mentors and people with experience to help guide them in specific areas
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How it works: Students will schedule meetings with you via email or your meeting link (included in the profile you create). You decide how much time you have to be a mentor and how often you want to chat with students. See the step by step process here.
We believe there aren’t enough smart people working on hard problems in the world.
In 2016, TKS was created to equip ambitious youth with the knowledge, skills, mindsets and networks needed to tackle the world’s biggest problems. Through our 10-month extracurricular program, high school students are exposed to the bleeding edge of tech and science and trained in gene editing, AI, cellular agriculture, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, brain-computer interfaces, and more. They’re introduced to 50+ emerging technologies and then select an area to go deeper in through case studies and project-based learning.
TKS has been named the School of the Future by the World Economic Forum and has a global network of over 3,000 alumni who've gone on to become the youngest employees at NASA, Tesla, SpaceX, IBM, Neuralink and OpenAI and earned admissions to top schools including Harvard, Stanford and MIT.
Our goal? Shape the future and positively impact billions.
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TKS mentors come from a variety of sectors, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re always on the lookout for folks who share our vision and beliefs:
These are some of the areas are students are looking for mentorship in:
Technical Focuses
Leadership & Growth
Impact
As a mentor, you have a strong belief in the power and potential of young people. TKS does not treat our students as kids but believe that if we raise the bar for what’s possible from the next generation, they will meet it.