TKS NYC Demo Day
TKS is the world's top accelerator for unicorn teenagers to solve the world's biggest problems through exponential tech and sciences. This Demo Day will serve as a showcase of their Focus projects along with a celebration of their successful completion of the TKS Program.
6:00pm - 7:00pm • Networking & Light Refreshments
7:00pm - 8:15pm • Student Presentations & Keynote Speaker
8:15pm - 9:00pm • Closing & More Networking
This event is open to the TKS community (current students, incoming students, alumni, family & friends of students) and friends within the NYC ecosystem (mentors, founders, investors, entrepreneurs, operators).
Last September, we kicked off the first cohort for the TKS NYC in-person program. In the program, the students choose to "focus" in an area of exponential tech and sciences, and build interesting, challenging projects to develop skills and experience in their chosen field. For the last step in their "focus" projects, the students develop a creative idea in their chosen field to solve real problems that exist in the world.
In this year's cohort, we've had students focused on a variety of areas, including:
Artificial Intelligence and using it to predict folding and mis-folding of protein structures
Soft Robotics and using it to design polymer-based machinery for extraterrestrial use cases
Brain Computer Interfaces and using it to assist humans with sensory disabilities
Space Technology and using it to develop more effective, less expensive, bio-based radiation shielding composite
More about TKS: We train curious and driven young people how to use emerging technologies and sciences like AI, Genomics, Nanotech, Quantum Computing and more to tackle ambitious problems in the world. TKS alumni have gone on to become the youngest employees at SpaceX, NASA, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and OpenAI. They’ve started companies valued at over $500M and earned full-ride scholarships to MIT, Harvard, Stanford, UNC’s Morehead-Cain and more. Learn more about TKS here.