Summary: Break Through Tech AI at MIT helps undergraduate women and non-binary students gain the skills they need to get jobs in the fastest growing areas of tech: data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The cohort consists of 250+ undergraduate students from universities across the New England/Boston area, with a focus on under-represented genders. Students join the program after completing an eight-week, skills-based online course and in-person lab experience at MIT that teaches industry-relevant tools to build real-world AI solutions. The program is fully funded by Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, so it’s free for startups aiming to get involved!
What & Who: Break Through Tech AI at MIT is looking for startups interested in providing project ideas and have technical project advisors to advise on a Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence hypothetical project. Other companies such as Verizon, Accenture, MathWorks are/have participated. Participating Project Advisors have hands on experience (familiarity with Python), time available to meet with students (can meet virtually or in person), and are mission-aligned with the program. A project advisor would provide the large open, public source data set and identify the machine learning skills to train the model.
When: This commitment is from August 2024 to December 2024. There will be a final project presentation that the project advisor will have their student team present to their company of the project findings.
Deadline: May 30
Please complete this opportunity form if you’re interested in participating. Next, the Startup Exchange team will connect you with the Break Through Tech AI at MIT team for more details and share a commitment form and project challenge form.
Disclaimer: MIT Startup Exchange can make introductions that ideally provide open ended discussions in order to share mutual interests and potentially create common ground that incite the parties to collaborate. MIT Startup Exchange introductions may eventually lead to mutual partnerships, but that is not in any way guaranteed by MIT, MIT Corporate Relations, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) or MIT Startup Exchange, which takes no responsibility for these outcomes and no formal part in such discussions following our introduction. MIT Startup Exchange and its activities and events are not for purposes of soliciting investment or offering securities.