Accelerate your path to changing the world

BETA Camp is for young leaders who want to learn how to solve the world's most pressing problems and get real-world experience today.

- Work in teams to build a real world startup
- Explore future careers
- Stand out on college applications

BETA Camp helps you build the skills you need to succeed like no other education experience through world-class instructors, in-depth curriculum with tactical hands-on learning, and a powerful community.

Now enrolling for Summer 2023 - July and August cohorts!

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Rhett Jones
Secured $40,000 in govt. funding to build a bike park
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Eva Amin
Gave a TEDx talk at the age of 16 after her BETA Camp experience.
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Cianna Williams
Milton Canada

"BETA Camp has been the best summer program I have participated in thus far. The endless resources — especially the experienced guest speakers. Connecting with others who are all as interested as I am in this field was one of the best feelings, especially when able to challenge my limits alongside them."

Tehseen Daha
Toronto

"BETA Camp has exceeded expectations! I not only got to actually build a startup, but I got to meet people working in my dream job and learn from their experiences, learn business concepts not taught in school, and develop a network of like minded individuals who I will keep friends with for life."

Megan So
Los Angeles CA

"I think BETA Camp is definitely one of a kind. The connections I've made with my team and close we've gotten is absolutely crazy. It was definitely a once in a lifetime experience and I wouldn't have traded it for the world!"

Noora Aka
New York City

"BETA Camp has truly changed my life. It's ignited a passion for entrepreneurship in me that I never thought was there before and I'm so grateful for the invaluable experience I've gained because of it. I've met so many new friends and gained so many new skills!"

Aayan Siddiqui
Toronto, Canada

"One of the most valuable things I've taken away is the importance teamwork. At BETA Camp we're constantly put into situations where we have to work with new people. We need to push each other if we want to maximize our potential."

Madi Huang
Boca Raton, Florida

"I've done multiple entrepreneurship programs for high school students. Even though they were in person and had smaller class sizes - BETA Camp is was a lot more engaging and interactive. I've never connected with peers like I have at BETA Camp.

Jack Perrow
Oakville Canada

"When I joined BETA Camp I was very shy, but BETA Camp has helped me branch out and become better at public speaking. I got out of my introverted shell and learned ways to turn being a high school entrepreneur into an advantage."

Zemra Lena
Anchorage Alaska

"BETA Camp makes learning virtually so interactive! I'd recommend it to every high school student even if they aren't interested in Business, Entrepreneurship, or Tech because what you are learning can be applied to all career fields."

Michelle Hong
Ottawa, Canada

"Other tech and business programs for high school students I have participated in have been theoretical. I never was able to put any of the plans into action. I appreciate that BETA Camp is aimed to help ALL teams develop and launch a real business!"

Zoya Khan
Milton Canada

"BETA Camp really opened up my mind to new opportunities I would never be exposed to during school, or any other leadership programs for high school students. It gave me confidence in myself that I can achieve anything I set my mind to."

Borna Shani
Vancouver Canada

"BETA Camp was much more extensive than any other summer program for high school students as it did not only scratch the surface of business topics, many of our sessions delved very deep into them, which were great learning opportunities for me."

Shakeel Majeed
London England

"BETA Camp is what Y-Combinator is to Adults; a startup accelerator that changes your life prospects right from day 1. BETA Camp is unique in the way it teaches theory you can immediately apply to your startup."

Sarah Chan
Niagara Canada

"I didn't think that I would have much to take away from BETA’s exposure to incredible speakers in lead positions of the world’s greatest companies. But I was proven wrong. It opened up a world of possibilities for me, painting a clearer picture of future roles I can now work towards."

The Instructors you'll learn from:

We believe that in order to become the best in the world, you need to surround yourself with those that you aspire to become. This is why all of our programs are taught by industry professionals, successful entrepreneurs, or experts at the top of their fields such as PHDs, MDs, and MBAs.

What's Included?

72 hours

of Live Sessions of interactive workshops led by our team of professionals

25+ hours

of on-demand lecture content inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs

6 hours

of 1:1 startup team mentorship with experienced entrepreneurs and alumni mentors

24/7

asynchronous support through Discord

350+

young leaders in our network to work and build lifelong relationships with

One unforgettable experience

What you'll do at BETA Camp

Build a real-world startup

We learn what we do, not what we're told. This is why BETA Camp emphasizes "doing". By the end of the program, students will have built a working business that solves a problem for real customers.

Get real-world experience in business & tech

Get hands-on experience and practice concepts from the student portal in Company Challenges hosted by top firms. We work with organizations like Skip the Dishes and IKEA to solve their most pressing problems.

Participate in interactive
workshops

We teach HOW to think not WHAT to think. Our leadership workshops are focused on giving you real-world skills skills -- like  negotiation, financial planning, and problem solving with data —skills you’ll use repeatedly during the course of your career.

Learn directly from entrepreneurs

Connect with inspiring founders who have built their startups from the ground up through Founder Firesides. You'll learn directly from their lessons and and ask them all your burning questions.

Explore careers in business & tech

Attend small group Q&A discussions with professionals from a wide array of careers. From traditional corporate paths, to startup roles, to freelancing remote workers and unconventional career paths, we cover everything that’s out there so you can have a better understanding of the possibilities for your future career.
How we teach at BETA Camp

Students learn from industry experts and real-world experience instead of through textbooks and theory. Instead of passively listening to lectures, you'll get more interactive experiences, small group discussions, hands-on projects, feedback & mentorship, Q&A, role-playing, and a lot of community & networking.

A Sample of the Topics Covered

Leadership training for high school students

Design Thinking Workshop

Analyzing Data

Critical Thinking

Networking

Delivering Results

Self-Directed Learning

Sales and Negotiations

Building a website or app as an MVP

Building workflows and operations

Decisions making with consequences

"BETA Camp helped me develop the mindset that set me up for success in the real world."

-Kyne Wang, BETA Camp Summer 2021 alum
Now at The University of Pennslyvania Wharton School


Kyne joined BETA Camp in his senior year of high school where he was exposed to entrepreneurship for the first time. He is now a sophmore at the Wharton School interested in early to growth stage life science ventures that advance the frontiers of healthcare in the United States.

Curriculum

Foundations

Learn the fundamentals of business, technology, and entrepreneurship. This includes exploring up and coming technologies and industries that will drive innovation, the risks and rewards of different types of entrepreneurship, and ways to differentiate from competition.

Live workshops in this phase are focused on helping students break down big problems into actionable steps, recognize pain points they experience themselves, and discover how to work on a team with peers with different opinions and skillsets.

Career Exploration: See how core positions at startups and businesses look day-to-day and identify the skills it takes to break in. Learn why that role is important to the business and what pathways there are to get to that position.

Ideation

Learn multiple methods of ideation and how to evaluate whether a business is worth building. Students will learn about finding a niche in a big market, where to look for unique insights, hypothesis testing, and conducting user research.

Live workshops will include design thinking for high school students and Company Challenges on conducting experiments to determine whether a new product or service is worth building and collecting user insights and information.

Career Exploration: Get to know the innovation arm of a company and discover careers related to user experience. We'll bring in a founder to answer your burning questions about the mechanics of starting a startup, debunk myths to entrepreneurship and inspire action. Understand your own strengths and skills that you can double-down on to grow into a competitive advantage.

Build

Learn how to build a minimal viable product within 2 weeks with or without code so that you can get your startup off the ground. For the rest of the program, students will focus on iterating the business, get comfortable in making consequences decisions with incomplete information, collect, read, and understand data, and build out operations and workflows.

During this time, every live workshop will help students practice skills they need to build their startups. This learning how to handle rejection, how to write enticing copy, how to launch fast and iterate faster, and how to leverage tech to accelerate.

Career Exploration: Based on students interest in the problems they chose to pursue, we bring in professionals that work in social impact, higher education (MD, JD, PhD), digital nomads (remote work), or disruptive tech careers for Q&A.

Go to Market

Initial traction is hard to get and involves a lot of trial and error as well as pure hustle. While continuing to build and improve the product, students will learn about best practices for cold outreach, strategizing and creating the marketing funnel, and selling.

Students will get to practice creating viral content with entrepreneurs that have leveraged media like TikTok and Youtube to distribute their products/services in live workshops as well as experience real-world negotiations and sales practice.

Career exploration: Founders come in to share how they navigated the early stages of their business.

Pitch

BETA Camp concludes with a Demo Day where students share the achievements of their business in just a few short weeks. To prepare, students learn the elements of a good pitch, how to plan for future expansion and growth, and performative speaking skills.

Live workshops in this final phase include a growth and scaling Company Challenge, presentation skills practice, and analyzing market size and financial projections.

Career exploration: Hear from VCs who come in for Q&A as well as investors who are judges at Demo Day on what they look for in a successful startup and how students can start generating value today.

Week 1 - Setting the foundations

  • Learn the fundamentals of business, technology, and entrepreneurship.
  • Explore up and coming technologies and industries that will drive innovation, different types of entrepreneurship, and ways to differentiate from competition.
  • Learn how to break down big problems into actionable steps and recognize customer pain points
  • Discover how to work on a team with peers with different opinions and skillsets.
  • Career Exploration: See how core positions at startups and businesses look day-to-day, identify the skills it takes to break in, and discover the pathways to get to that position.

Week 1 - Ideation

  • We guide you through the process of creating, and testing a valid business idea
  • Learn multiple methods of ideation and how to evaluate whether a business is worth building.
  • Conduct market research, interview users and customers, and test your hypotheses.
  • Career Exploration: Get to know the innovation arm of a company and discover careers related to user experience. We'll bring in a founder to answer your burning questions about the mechanics of starting a startup, debunk myths to entrepreneurship and inspire action. Understand your own strengths and skills that you can double-down on to grow your competitive advantage.

Week 2 - Build an MVP

  • Learn how to build a minimal viable product with or without code so that you can get your startup off the ground.
  • Learn how to iterate the business, get comfortable in making consequences decisions with incomplete information, collect, read, and understand data, and build out operations and workflows.
  • Learn tactical skills you need as an entrepreneur like how to handle rejection, write enticing copy, and leverage tech to accelerate.
  • Career Exploration: Based on students interest in the problems they chose to pursue, we bring in professionals that work in social impact, higher education (MD, JD, PhD), digital nomads (remote work), or disruptive tech careers for Q&A.

Week 3 - Get your first customers

  • Initial traction is hard to get and involves a lot of trial and error, as well as pure hustle. While continuing to build and improve the product, students will learn about best practices for cold outreach, strategizing and creating the marketing funnel, and selling.
  • Practice creating viral content with entrepreneurs that have leveraged media like TikTok and Youtube to distribute their products/services
  • Learn sales and marketing skills in live workshops as well as experience real-world negotiations and sales practice.

Week 4 - Pitch and Demo Day

  • BETA Camp concludes with a Demo Day where students share the achievements of their business in front of a panel of judges (VCs, investors, and entrepreneurs)
  • Learn the elements of a good pitch, and practice public speaking and pitching.
  • Build a plan for future growth with a growth and scaling Company Challenge, analyzing market size, and creating financial projections.
  • Get feedback on your startup from real-world VCs, investors, and experienced entrepreneurs.

Instructors that have joined us

Dan Li

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Martin Ochwat

Co-Founder of Dundas Life and Wellow. Martin has built several 7-figure eCommerce businesses.

Henry Shi

Co-Founder & CTO of SnapCommerce. SnapCommerce will surpass $1 Billion in sales in 2021.

Khaled Hussein

Founder and Managing Director of Stipple Ventures. Khaled's previous startup was acquired by Airbnb.

Jessie Duan

Chief of Staff to the CTO at Roblox. Jessie was previously an Engineering Manager at Quora

Nicole Fitzgerald

Machine Learning Research Engineer at Microsoft.

Carolyn Chen

Founder & CEO of Reset Beauty Inc. Carolyn is an expert at influencer marketing having partnered with the D'Amelio sisters.

Chris Lu

Co-founder of Copy.ai, an AI powered tool that has raised $2.3M USD. Chris has invested in 100+ startups

Kevin Kim

Co-founder & CEO of Stadium Live and previously Head of Product at Drop.

Ikenna Enwere

Bachelor of Science from MIT, his MBA from Wharton and MPP from Harvard.

Eric Chen

Eric has a Bachelor's, MBA, and MD from Yale University. He is an Anesthesiologist Resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Tommy Liu

Tommy is a Software Engineer at Waymo, Google's Self-Driving Car Project.

Steeve Vakeeswaran

Steeve leads Business Operations at Zapier and a guest lecturer at Columbia Business School

Connie Lo

Connie is the co-founder of Three Ships, a natural skincare line with deals at Target, Wholefoods, Nordstrom and 100s of retailers.

Brandon Hill

CEO of Vori. At 25, Brandon has founded 2 companies that have been through Y-Combinator.

Cindy Soo

Head of Innovation at IKEA. Cindy has 20+ years of experience and consults for global companies on design thinking.

Dan Li

Co-Founder and CEO at Shypyard. Harvard MBA and previously a Senior Product Manager at Linkedin

Kaitlyn Zhou

PHD Candidate at
Stanford University in Computer Science

Rachel Marincola

Senior Engineer at Khan Academy, previously Engineer #10 at Doordash

Now Enrolling for Summer 2023!

July
June 28 - July 28
Mon - Fri, 12 -3pm EST
$3,500USD

4 - week program

What’s Included:
60+ hours of live interactive workshops

with industry experts and entrepreneurs.

25+ hours of on-demand lecture content

inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs.

6 hours of 1:1 startup team mentorship

with experienced entrepreneurs and alumni mentors.

Apply Today
And join 350+ students discovering their passion and purpose in this world.
August
July 31 - August 25
Mon - Fri, 12 - 3 pm EST
$3,500USD

4 - week program

What’s Included:
60+ hours of live interactive workshops

with industry experts and entrepreneurs.

25+ hours of on-demand lecture content

inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs.

6 hours of 1:1 startup team mentorship

with experienced entrepreneurs and alumni mentors.

Apply Today
And join 350+ students discovering their passion and purpose in this world.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Includes:
60 hours of live, interactive curriculum led by industry leaders and entrepreneurs & 25 hours of on-demand content
25+ hours of on-demand lecture content inspired by startup incubators and top MBA programs
1:1 team mentorship with experienced entrepreneurs
Tangible results: launch a company, build your resume & stand out on future applications
One unforgettable summer

Early Bird

Apply by May 1st

$3,500 USD

Regular

Apply by June 4th

$3,750 USD

Financial Aid
Our goal is to support ambitious students regardless of their financial situation. Students may apply for financial aid after completing their application. Please see our FAQs for more.

Risk Free Guarantee

Our Do the Work Guarantee

One of the things that defines BETA Camp is our focus on tangible results. Our goal is for every student to build a startup and get their first paying customer by the end of the program.

We are confident that if you put in the time to BETA Camp, it will open new doors, transform your perspective, and give you tangible results to showcase. In fact, if you do the work in BETA Camp and are not satisfied by the end of the program, email us within 1 week of the program end date, and you'll get a 100% refund.

To be eligible, students must participate in BETA Camp (attending more than 80% of the live sessions and follow our startup playbook.) Please contact us or see our Terms of Service for details.

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