The Hidden Genius Project
The Hidden Genius Project trains and mentors Black male youth in technology creation, entrepreneurship, and leadership skills to transform their lives and communities.
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LEARN ·2025 Grants Challenge
The Hidden Genius Project - Community Partnership Programs
Our Community Partnership Programs foster youth learning and growth through collaborative workshops with community-based organizations. Programs range from single-day to multi-week sessions in areas like robotics, artificial intelligence, mobile app development, and radical social entrepreneurship. Each session is uniquely led by our Youth Educators—graduates of our Intensive Immersion Program—who bring lived experience, leadership, and cultural relevance to their facilitation.
CREATE ·2024 Grants Challenge
The Hidden Genius Project Intensive Immersion Program
Our award-winning Intensive Immersion Program, a free, 15- month, cohort-based training program that provides Black males in high school with upwards of 800 hours of holistic, trauma-informed, comprehensive mentorship and intensive training to develop youth into strong, responsible leaders equipped with coding/entrepreneurial skills, who can identify and develop tech-enabled solutions to address society’s most compelling challenges.
LEARN ·2023 Grants Challenge
Intensive Immersion Program
The cornerstone of The Hidden Genius Project is our award-winning Intensive Immersion Program. This FREE, 15-month, cohort-based training program provides Black males in high school with upwards of 800 hours of holistic, trauma/healing-informed, high-touch mentorship and intensive training that seeks to develop youth into strong and responsible leaders equipped with coding and entrepreneurial skills, who can identify and develop tech-enabled solutions to address society's most compelling challenges.