TKS | The World's Top Innovation Program for Youth

The world’s top global accelerator for teens.

TKS is a 10-month global innovation program for ambitious high school students ages 13-17.

Virtual Program

In-Person Program

TKS has successfully helped its students gain acceptance into prestigious internships at Microsoft, NASA, Google, and SpaceX.

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.

Named a leader in Global Innovation and Creativity, including complex problem-solving and analytical thinking.

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:

Jonathan Kao

Age

Ottawa, Canada

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.

Rishay Gupta

Age

Red Bank, USA

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.

Viola Seda

Age

San Francisco, USA

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.

Vinaya Sharma

Age

Toronto, Canada

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.

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

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

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

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

TKS 2018

Alumni Stories

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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.

TKS Supporters

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

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.

We help young people

make a dent in the universe.

solve global problems.

impact billions.

create the future.