Graduates of TKS have gone on to work at the likes of NASA, SpaceX and OpenAI, or start their own ventures valued at hundreds of millions.
has produced some of the youngest quantum computing engineers, artificial intelligence developers, synthetic biologists and blockchain engineers, plus some of the youngest employees at organizations like NASA, SpaceX, OpenAI, Microsoft, IBM, Google, Apple and Tesla. Alumni of TKS’s 10-month innovation program for youth aged 13-17 have also gone on to start their own companies valued at more than $200 million.
It’s impressive, no doubt, but TKS’s ethos is about inspiring young people to make a difference, rather than a fortune. “While we teach emerging tech and sciences, we teach it through the lens of how we can solve really large problems in the world,” says Elisha Kramer, Head of Growth at TKS. Co-founded by Calgarian brothers Navid and Nadeem Nathoo, who found wealth and success in Silicon Valley and New York, respectively, TKS soft-launched in Calgary in 2016 and in Toronto in 2017. The brothers modelled it after the world’s leading startup accelerators and adapted to accelerate the younger generation, particularly in young people whose brilliance often remains hidden in traditional education settings.
The TKS program mimics the environments of high-growth startups in Silicon Valley, with a curriculum based on tech incubation programs at several Ivy League institutions.
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