There are four components to hosting a successful AI Bootcamp with the Mark Cuban Foundation.
- Financial & Legal
- Physical Space
- Student Recruitment
- Volunteer Recruitment
Often times, one company can fulfill the needs of all four components; however, more than one organization is welcome to come together to support bootcamp wherever they are most adept.
The most successful hosts are mission-aligned and committed to investing in AI literacy, their local communities, and their future workforce.
- Investment in your local community
- Investment in the future workforce
- Investment in AI literacy
- Host companies often curate a marketing campaign highlighting their involvement in AI Bootcamps. These campaigns have ranged from student participant spotlights to community impact campaigns.
- Volunteering or mentoring at camp is a unique opportunity for employees to share their area of expertise with students.
- Since the mentor role is very hands-on, we often see those volunteers coming from the engineering or data science side of host companies.
- As bootcamps have been running for a number of years now, we have watched the natural evolution of bootcamp participants becoming very early candidates for future internship and full-time positions with their host companies. With this in mind, we see more and more companies starting to engage their early career departments to longitudinally track students through and post-college.
