Summer Springboard

Summer Springboard’s Finance & Investing at Yale program gives teenagers hands-on experience working with the stock market and private investments. Taught by former McKinsey and Co. consultant Peter Mombaur, this two-week course lets students learn about the factors contributing to investment successes and failures from field professionals.

Summer Springboard’s in-person Business & Entrepreneurship program introduces students to concepts and skills necessary to operate and expand businesses. Available at college campuses throughout the United States, this program allows students to develop and pitch a business plan to a panel of field professionals.

Summer Springboard’s two-week Blockchain and Cryptocurrency program introduce high school students to the exciting world of cryptoeconomics from historical and contemporary perspectives. From the dormitories at Fordham University-Lincoln Center, students will be able to take classes live online and in-person with experts from around the globe.

Designed for students with varying levels of familiarity with game creation and programming, this course will teach participants how to use programming techniques such as Raspberry Pi and Python, develop their own 2D platforming game, and meet leaders in the programming field.

Summer Springboard’s hybrid in-person and live online Web Development Program teaches the fundamentals of coding frameworks, techniques, and languages such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript. From the UC Berkely campus, students will be able to connect with a global classroom where they will learn how to use editing tools such as Figma and Adobe XD and the communication and connecting functions of Application Program Interfaces (API).

Based on the UC Berkeley campus, this hybridized program uses a humanist approach to teach students how to create an online identity through websites and applications informed by user evaluation and research.