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We help young people
PROGRAM STARTS SEPTEMBER 2025
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JULY 31, 2025
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The world’s top global accelerator for teens.
TKS is a 10-month global innovation program for ambitious high school students ages 13-17.
Named a leader in Global Innovation and Creativity, including complex problem-solving and analytical thinking.
If we can train Olympic-level athletes from a young age, why can't we train Olympic-level CEOs and innovators?
TKS has a strong balance between the technical skills and the other skills that surround it to develop holistic humans.
TKS has successfully helped its students gain acceptance into prestigious internships at Microsoft, NASA, Google, and SpaceX.
4,000+ Alumni
Get support from alumni who have built startups, worked in notable research labs, and attended top-tier universities.
500+ Cities
Be in a global community of like-minded people who care about making an impact on the world and solving global problems.
Emerging Tech
Learn about emerging technologies in areas like artificial intelligence and gene editing that are changing the world.
Interactive Sessions
Attend weekly interactive sessions in-person or online to explore topics, expand your skillset, and build projects.
Mentorship
Get personalized mentorship from your program directors, and earn access to our mentor network of 200+ experts.
Mindsets
Develop foundational mindsets to help you optimize yourself so you can make a significant impact on the world.
Build real projects within a few months.
No prior knowledge needed. We expose students to emerging technologies and sciences, while training real-world skills. After a few months, these are some projects students have worked on:
Exoskeletons are no just longer found in nature. They can be found in humans, in innovation, and soon enough, they will change the world.
The future of bionics: how exoskeletons will change the world.
I'll be taking you through my process of building a pneumatic robot. I'll also go over some of the mechanical and electrical setbacks I faced while building it.
Process of building a pneumatic robot with applications in search & rescue.
I focused on sodium-ion batteries in solar storage as a solution to the duck curve problem compared to lithium-ion, addressing electricity demand.
Improving sodium-ion batteries in solar storage to solve the duck curve problem.
Why models from scratch will never be as good as Transfer Learning models at classifying brain tumours - a comparative analysis.
Using transfer learning models to classify brain tumours.
Finding the ground state energies and bond lengths of Lithium Hydride and Hydrogen using Variational Quantum Eigensolver in Qiskit.
Simulating molecules using a quantum computing programming software.
In this video, I explain how I built out an algorithm using the machine learning model DBSCAN (a density based clustering algorithm) and give a live demo.
Contact tracing for COVID-19 using the DBSCAN clustering algorithm.
Make real impact within a few years.
Our alumni have started companies, worked at top research labs at institutions like Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley, and interned at companies including SpaceX, Microsoft, OpenAI, Neuralink, and more.
SpaceX engineer and founder of Ember Bazaar.
"TKS has helped me realize that I'm meant to build and that I will continue to build and help others in spaces like climate tech and space tech! It helped me build an engineering portfolio and get amazing internships and opportunities."
Valkyrie Holmes
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TKS 2019
Utopia Labs raises $23M led by Paradigm Capital.
"Through the mentors and friends I met during TKS, I learned mental models that deeply impacted me and shaped who I am today. TKS helped me be unafraid of tackling ambitious problems and pursue a more unconventional path.”
Alexander Wu
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TKS 2017
Blockchain powered hedge fund at Numerai.
"TKS gave me a community of inspiring peers, helped me create projects that got me internships at AI research labs and startups while in high school, and made me feel ready to work full-time at a startup in Silicon Valley without university."
Liam Hinzman
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TKS 2018
Full-ride Morehead-Cain scholarship to UNC pursuing biotech.
“TKS sparked my interest in building real-world change. I’ve worked with scientists in the cultured meat industry, built a maternal public health program in Nigeria, and created a women’s health product (Boob Blurb)."
Isabella Grandic
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TKS 2018
Early cancer detection using genomics at Stanford.
"TKS propelled me into an environment of like-minded individuals where I built projects in cancer research, formed life-long connections, and built mindsets towards innovative success. The people I met in TKS remain my closest friends."
Kevin Zhu
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TKS 2019
Managing Director at Nucleate, global biotech leader.
"I got my first exposure to CRISPR-Cas9 and the scientific method during TKS, and I find myself relying on those lessons to this day as I help develop and deploy the next generation of genetic engineering tools here at MIT."
Michael Trinh
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TKS 2018
Founder, Axiome: biosensors for molecular diagnostics.
"Through TKS, I was strongly encouraged to pursue my curiosities in areas that normally require a deep technical background, and was exposed to frameworks that have been immensely valuable as I've been building my company."
Samarth Athreya
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TKS 2017
Battery innovation with material science and machine learning.
"I met people at TKS who really get me and enable me to be my most authentic self while pushing for my growth. TKS helped me unlock opportunities, internships, and network connections that were life-changing."
Shagun Maheshwari
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TKS 2017
Founding engineer at Thirdweb valued at $160M.
"TKS was the catalyst for me to rapidly progress toward my goals. It showed me that I didn't need to wait to start building valuable technical skills, start companies, and carve my own path. Without it, my life would look very different."
Adam Majmudar
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TKS 2019
Co-founder of human longevity startup, Biotein.
"TKS gave me a new frame of reference for what I could accomplish. I trained tangible mental models like breaking down major issues into their root causes. I wouldn't have been able to cofound a biotech startup without this experience."
Anupra Chandran
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TKS 2017
AI startup Tecton raises $100M from a16z and Sequoia.
"I started TKS in 2016 and it was the place where I learned about artificial intelligence and data. I met my mentor Mike during TKS, who later hired me to work at Tecton as an early product manager building advanced AI tools."
Jay Parthasarthy
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TKS 2016
Brain-Computer Interfaces at Neuralink and Stanford.
"TKS pushed me to build, learn, and invent, alongside the most supportive group of friends I've ever met. During the program I built my first Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) project, and projects in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gene editing. TKS changed my trajectory."
Ananya Chadha
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TKS 2016
Organizations we've worked with.
A core value we have is “make it real”. We work with companies to help our students learn how to solve real problems, find expert mentors, and earn internships.
Tobi Lutke
"It’s ridiculous how smart they are. I had a conversation on particle physics with a 13-year-old."
Mentorship
Kevin Peesker
Engaging with [TKS] students...it’s hard not to walk away and think, “WOW!”
Mentorship
Karina Fernandez
“...my jaw literally dropped listening to them articulate real-world problems they had broken down and solved."
Corporate Innovation
Piotr Mierzejewski
“It only took a 30 minute conversation with a group of TKS students for me to feel inspired and find renewed faith in our future."
Internships
Sean Khan
“I was absolutely blown away by the recommendations that the students shared, and I’m excited to implement their ideas.”
Corporate Innovation
Lee Jeyes
"Our partnership with TKS allows us to collaborate with people [teens] whose minds are less constrained than an adult."
Internships
Develop meaningful friendships for life.
Our community is filled with curious, ambitious, and impact-driven people. Meet your future best friends and co-founders, while having fun and accelerating your personal growth.
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