Our Student Success
FutureMakers systematically develops students’ hands-on technical skills while also developing human-centered skills such as teamwork, leadership, entrepreneurial mindset, critical awareness, and responsible design methods of AI-powered solutions. It cultivates the formation of young people’s computational identity and their confidence in digital empowerment. Computational identity encourages students to become leaders, learn how to design compelling solutions, and convincingly communicate their ideas for solving real-world problems that benefit others. Participants leave the program with a certificate of completion, practical technical skills, a compelling project (some with GitHub code), an enhanced resume, and improved interview skills that will help them secure their next summer internship, apply to college, or even make progress toward their own startup idea.
Alumni Highlights
Over 40% (of 90 respondents) have gone on to top 25 universities, including 37% of the 47 high school participants now in college.
More than 100 organizations have hired past participants for internships.
An all-female 2021 Deep Learning track team (Team Code Blue with their project Machine Vision-based Facial Asymmetry Stroke Test) filed their first patent and are in the process of building a healthcare startup focused on early stroke detection.
A participant was awarded a US Congressional Medal for Youth in 2023 based on a project he started during the 2921 FutureMakers program. The app, Udiet, created by him and his teammates, focused on helping individuals jumpstart their health journey by aligning app recommendations with their age and budget.

2024 ASU + GSV SUMMIT
The 2023 FutureMakers Create-a-thon winners were invited to present their projects at the 2024 ASU + GSV SUMMIT. There, team DataDrillers and team The Olympiads, showcased their summer capstone projects. Team DataDrillers focused on climate change and environmental risk mitigation, while The Olympiad focused on physical health and mental well-being management. You can watch their project presentations below: