Tech Entrepreneurship Program

In order to get into a top college, a student needs more than just good grades and good test scores. Top colleges get far more highly qualified applicants than they have space for.  So how do top colleges decide which students to admit? Since top colleges see themselves as educating the future leaders of society, they look for students who show such potential by demonstrating exceptional achievements while in high school. Sports, music, after school clubs and volunteer work are great, but they’re also done by virtually every student in the country. Unless your child has distinguished himself/herself in one of these extracurriculars, s/he is really just part of the crowd.

In order to help students build the type of resumes that get them into top colleges, MyEdMaster has developed extracurricular programs to supercharge students’ college applications. Our most powerful is the tech entrepreneurship program, winner of the Technology Innovator Awards 2024 in the category of Best K-12 AI &Machine Learning Tuition Provider in Virginia. Led by Dr. John Leddo, president of MyEdMaster and METY Technology (MyEdMaster’s spinoff company), a Yale PhD with 35 years of experience as a business owner/entrepreneur, and over 40 years of experience in AI, the tech entrepreneurship program is for students who are interested in careers in computer science, data science, medicine, business, or combinations thereof.

In the tech entrepreneurship program, each student gets 1-1 attention as s/he works with our team of 50 and our 10 partner universities in the US, Canada and England to develop innovative, cutting edge commercial products involving AI and machine learning. The student can pick one of our ongoing products in health or education to work on, or, if the student has his/her own viable product idea, our team can mentor the student and help him/her build and market that product.

The tech entrepreneurship program runs 12 weeks. Admission is on a rolling basis, meaning the student can join at any time and renew as many times as s/he wants. Each student receives 1 hour per week of 1-1 instruction in the areas of his/her choice: computer science programming (choice of programming, AI/ML, UI/UX, databases), data science or business instruction.  The student is also assigned to a product team and a mentor who will guide the student through the project.  At the end of the 12 weeks, the student will work with Dr. Leddo (who has over 100 professional publications himself) to write a paper for publication in a professional scientific journal (to date, 100% of our submitted papers have been published and have been read by over 75,000 scientists from around the world).  The student will also receive three shares of non-voting stock in METY Technology, so that the student will share in the financial success of the company.

While students can work on their own viable products with the support of the MyEdMaster/METY Technology team, they can also select from one of the following ongoing projects to work on:

Young adult health and longevity product-this is a sequel to MyYouthspan, but tailored to young adults aged 18-35, 54% of which (according to the US Centers for Disease Control) have one or more chronic health conditions.

Virtual doctor-an image processing and machine learning program that takes pictures of users and analyzes them for possible health conditions.

Virtual trainer-a video processing and machine learning program that takes videos of people exercising, diagnoses whether they are using proper exercise form and provides corrective feedback.

Frailty diagnostic tool for elderly people-a video and machine learning program that takes videos of elderly people and diagnoses areas of potential frailty like loss of balance or slowness of walking speed and recommends corrective exercises.

Social media platform for health and longevity-a social media platform, modeled after Facebook, but devoted exclusively to health, anti-aging and longevity.  It also contains a health chatbot and a resource center of wellness videos.

AI-generated training programs-a tool that allows users to provide an intake form about themselves and their fitness goals, develops a customized plan to meet those goals and then creates AI-generated exercise videos for that customized plan.

AI tutor-software that teaches students the way humans do. Our prototype is the only known software with published studies that show that it teaches 37% better than experienced teachers do, 80% better than Khan Academy’s videos and 300% better than Pearson Education’s electronic textbooks.  A video of this software can be seen at www.myedmaster.com/aieducational.

AI-based assessment-software that uses large language models and AI to assess students’ knowledge of a subject (facts, strategies, procedures, rationales) as opposed to whether they can give the right answer to a problem. Our published research shows that assessing and remediating students this way leads to a 10 point or 1 full letter grade improvement in performance compared to the traditional “solve the problem and show all work” assessments students get now.

Adaptive personal assistant-current personal assistants don’t take user characteristics (e.g., age, amount of knowledge user currently as about the topic, learning style, or what the user will do with the information) into account when answering questions. Our published research shows that how a question is answered can double user learning of the answer. This project uses natural language processing, cognitive and educational psychologies, and machine learning to create an adaptive personal assistant that learns how best to answer a person’s question so that the person will best understand the answer.

Large language model-generated, personalized educational content-our current educational system is based on the model that every student gets the same textbook/curriculum.  This project uses cognitive and educational psychologies to determine each student’s learning needs and learning style and then feeds the student’s profile into a large language model to create a customized curriculum to maximize each student’s learning.

Self-assessment chatbot-Students can use chatbots to get answers to their questions. The quality of the answers is tied to the quality of the questions. We recently published research showing that students can be taught quickly and effectively to self-assess their own knowledge gaps when they get stuck or don’t understand something.  This project combines self-assessment with chatbot technology to help students interact with chatbots more effectively.

The tech entrepreneurship program is proving to be highly successful. Students have already launched their first commercial product, a machine learning-based anti-aging product called MyYouthspan (www.MyYouthspan.com) and published over a dozen papers from that project. Graduates of our program have received admission to guaranteed medical programs, selective dual degree (business and engineering) programs at Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania, and top colleges like Ivy League schools. And no wonder.  Tech entrepreneurship program graduates can include on their college applications that they co-own a technology company, have published scientific papers, and have worked with professionals and university research teams to create actual commercial products.  All while learning valuable skills that they can use for their later careers.  We’ve seen no other program that offers students anywhere near this level of benefits. Our cost ($1950 for the 12-week program) is much lower than that of our competitors as well.

For example, the popular Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth 2025 summer residential program costs from $3100 to $7500. Stanford University’s 8-week summer session for high school costs $8000. University of Virginia’s 4-week program for high school students costs $7000. None of these programs offer students the chance to build real products, get publications or stock for participating. In a more direct comparison, Veritas AI Scholars has online programs to teach students AI and have them work on projects and get published in high school or college journals (as opposed to professional level journals). A comparison of program features is shown below.

In comparing what we offer to the competition, you see how students get far more benefits for a much lower price. More importantly, we have a track record of getting students into top colleges, since they get more than just “participation.” Our students can point to multiple professional-level achievements: building a real product, co-owning a tech company with products in the market, publishing a scientific paper.

To register or for more information, please contact Dr. John Leddo at 571-242-6986 or john@myedmaster.com.  We also offer a $100 referral fee for paying customers you bring us.