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.

2024 Impact Report
2023 Impact Report
2022 Impact Report

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. 

ASU + GSV SUMMIT

FutureMakers Create-a-thon winners are invited to present their capstone projects at the ASU+GSV AI Show. New and past winners have presented their work there, including on the main stage to an audience of hundreds. In 2025, that main stage event included Team Kinex, who developed a physical therapy app, and Team Code Blue AI, whose app can detect the signs of a stroke sooner than a person can see a doctor.