2024-2025 Syllabus

Program description: Foundation gathers NYC's brightest students for a weekly work session, pairing them with mentors and resources to turn their greatest ideas into reality. We meet on Sundays from 12-6pm throughout the school year.

Required materials: Enthusiasm. If you have a laptop, bring that as well. As your project progresses, we will provide additional materials and resources as required. We will provide dinner. Reach out at [email protected] if you need help with transport, or have additional questions.

General structure: We will start with a mini project that corresponds to your track, lasting 3 sessions. This is to make sure you are excited enough about your track to commit the rest of the year’s Sundays to Foundation — think of it as a trial period. During and after the trial period, the bulk of program time will be spent on making progress against your project with guidance.

Every week, two students will share project progress with the group. Every few weeks, we will discuss something tricky over dinner with a guest (an “adult” doing something cool out in the world). They will also spend some of the session working with us.

This means we will meet 20+ times, each spending over 150 hours on our projects. You can get a lot of stuff done over a hundred and fifty hours of real focus. The first prototype for JavaScript, the programming language that powers most of the internet, was built in 10 days!