Our 8-week mentorship program helps teens turn their ideas into real projects while learning the type of entrepreneurial or AI-powered skills that will help them succeed in any career they pursue.
Today’s students are entering a world transformed by automation, new technologies, and rapidly shifting job markets. Confidence, adaptability, entrepreneurial thinking, and technical literacy are no longer “nice to have.”
Create Futures helps students build them now, through hands-on projects, guided mentorship, and real-world exposure to the careers shaping the future.
Market research & identifying real customer needs
Problem-solving frameworks and innovation strategies
Creating a minimum viable product (MVP)
Branding, marketing & content creation
Sales fundamentals & pricing strategy
Pitching and storytelling skills
Financial basics: budgets, revenue models, cost analysis
Building confidence, resilience & adaptive thinking
Using AI to automate workflows
Prompt engineering & AI reasoning skills
AI tools for research, writing & product development
Building AI-powered prototypes for real problems
Data literacy & evaluating AI outputs
Understanding AI ethics & responsible use
Designing simple AI-assisted apps or scripts
Systems thinking & future career applications of AI
Communication, collaboration & leadership experience
AI-powered workflow and automation skills
How to build out their own idea step-by-step
Technical and digital literacy specifically aligned with future career demands
How to do market research and problem-solving based ideation
Documented hours of career exploration & engaged mentorship each week
Entrepreneurial project or AI prototype completed within 8 weeks
Portfolio piece demonstrating initiative and creativity
Our program brings CREATE Futures directly into high schools, especially those whose students need access to emerging career pathways the most. We have a specific focus on recent research from Goldman Sachs highlights massive unfilled needs across AI, data centers, energy infrastructure, and skilled certificate-based trades, driven by national investment and a shortage of trained talent. Yet most students don’t know these careers exist or how to prepare for them.
Our High School program fills that gap by:
Introducing students to high-demand careers in AI, energy, cybersecurity, trades, data centers, clean tech, and more
Teaching practical AI and entrepreneurial skills used in these industries right now
Helping students understand how to earn certificates, apprenticeships, or build small service-based businesses
Challenging students to create solutions to real problems facing these industries
This model ensures that students; whether college-bound, trade-focused, or undecided, gain powerful skills for navigating and succeeding in a rapidly changing world.
This internship is undoubtedly the highlight of my summer. I can’t recall the last time I’ve been this passionate about something relative to what I want to do in my life. I would go to my parents room after a long day, waiting ecstatically about the new additions I would make to the AI programs that I made. What I have learned from these last 8 weeks is something that I can apply to the field I’m interested in going into upon leaving college. I’ve delved deeper into the world of artificial intelligence and the ways that it can better serve humanity’s continuing growth. I look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead of me thanks to everything from this internship.”
Ethan Ignacio, 11th Grade, AI Track Graduate
I created an app and AI companion that bridged immigrant values with western parenting, one step at a time. With age group focused guides, a Cultural Bridge section and a Difficult Discussions scripts simulator I attempted to support communication between immigrant generations favoring traditional parenting practices and their adult children who are choosing modern practices rooted in child psychology.
“The most important thing I learned was knowing how to identify a specific audience based on the problem. When I identified my problem, I was able to focus on tailoring my product specifically towards my target audience – immigrant parents.”
Medha Rai, 12th Grade, Start-up Track Graduate
I made my own prompts and worked through many trials and errors when combining my prompts to finally reach the final one. After running my prompts in Lovable to make my project, I had to edit and change more things such as design or efficiency. I gained feedback from presenting my project and integrated that into the prompt.
“I loved working with Natalia- loved how she made my group feel at ease and not pressured. I wanted to understand how an AI startup environment works and hopefully one day I’ll be the one leading the startup!!”
Akriti Shetty, 10th Grade, AI Track Graduate
I learned that simple doesn’t equal bad; complex doesn’t equal good. Guerilla marketing and strategies to save money early on were key in my project. I was pleasantly surprised by how often the best solution was the simplest one- boiling each component down to its core and using that.
Understanding value is key. When pricing and budgeting, I realized that the biggest issue was not just the raw cost of materials, but the value of my product to customers.
Elizabeth Yan, 11th Grade, Start-up Track Graduate
I developed a educational game for kids under 7 that teaches about emotions, their physical sensations and coping skills through activity based cards and videos.
I learned was how important it is to really understand the people you want to help. Building parent personas and conducting research taught me that having great ideas isn’t enough; you have to design with real people in mind. It made me think differently about the importance of listening before I start creating something.
Kylinn Ding, 12th Grade, Start-up Track Graduate
Our staff is equipped with lesson plans that focus on career and future planning matching today’s real needs. We have in-class activities and teachers guides that include citations to the Florida Benchmarks satisfied by our programs. Contact us to tailor a plan to your school’s specific needs.