Build Learning — Portfolio building with industry mentors

Portfolio Building with Industry Mentors

Students build portfolio-worthy projects with industry mentors.

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Build for Impact 2026 hackathon cohort, Singapore

Students testing a robot at AI Tinkery camp

Next upGlobal Innovation Challenge 2026Virtual · 11 Dec – 16 Jan · Grade 9+--days to register$1.5KSeed Award

300+Students

14+Countries

30+Projects built

200+Hours coached

Trusted by Previous Partners, Sponsors, and Mentors from

Programs

Four ways to build

Passion Project Studio1:1 or pair projects with a mentor

CompetitionsGlobal challenges and hackathons

Learning ImmersionsEight days of building in Singapore

Schools & PartnersWorkshops, camps and hackathons

STUDENT WORKS

Real Projects from Past Students

Global ImpactWhat the City Throws AwayJonathan Liu · China · 2026

Global CulturesWe Prompted ThisKaiden Woo · USA · 2026

Global ImpactDreaming in BangkokSameer Daga · Thailand · 2026

Global ImpactFiltered RealitiesJessie Park · South Korea · 2026

Global CulturesThe Voice of MongoliaNomun Chinzorig · Mongolia / USA · 2026

Global ImpactWhere the River Swallows Our HomesAddison Tran · Vietnam · 2026

See all on Global Archives

Our Philosophy

What Students Hone

Empathy

Understanding human psychology, sociology, and behavioral science through human-centric research

Storytelling

Communication and presentation that grasp an audience, through various new media formats like websites and videos

Collaboration

Learning how to collaborate with each other, working together to solve problems and navigate differences

Discernment

Through various activities like wire-framing, business fundamentals and human centric research, students learn systems, analytical and design thinking

Creative Confidence

Creative, divergent thinking using well-known innovation methods like SCAMPER and more

AI Literacy

Every student will learn how to setup AI workflows, and harness AI capability to bring their ideas to life, while understanding its limitations

The Method

Learn to Innovate the Stanford Way.

Inspired by our time at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and Graduate School of Business, we bring the teaching and innovation pedagogies that capture the spirit of Silicon Valley - curious, hands-on and unafraid to build.

Every program is designed so students learn by doing: understanding real people, testing bold ideas, and creating work they’re proud to share.

Build Learning’s co-founders at the Stanford Graduate School of Education

Young learners at a Stanford AI Tinkery pop-up

A brainstorming session with sticky notes at Stanford

A team showing their prototype at Stanford

Sharing Build Learning’s approach in a talk at Stanford

Walking visitors through student project portfolios

At Build Learning, students work on portfolio-worthy projects designed to help them gain international exposure, build character, and showcase their technological literacy and uniquely human skills in today's disruptive world.

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● Next upGlobal Innovation Challenge 2026Virtual · 11 Dec – 16 Jan · Grade 9+--days to register$1.5KSeed Award

Students

Countries

Projects built

Hours coached

Trusted by Previous Partners, Sponsors, and Mentors from

PROGRAMS

Individual & Group Programs, Designed for All Student Needs

Using the Stanford Design Thinking and Innovation Methods, all students learn from and co-create with industry mentors and experts, with the goal of developing portfolio-worthy passion projects.

INDIVIDUAL · PAIR WORKPassion Project StudioA bespoke 8-session program: user-centric research, expert interviews, creative ideation, concept and prototype development, anchored by industry mentors. 8 sessions · Online / SingaporeExplore →

Global · Virtual & In PersonCompetitionsGlobal competitions organised for high school students with no prior technical background; students gain new skills from industry experts and learn to take their ideas to reality. Next: Global Innovation Challenge · Dec 2026Explore →

EdutourismLearning ImmersionsA different way to travel - where you build meaningful passion projects spanning technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and storytelling with industry mentors, all while immersing in a new culture. Next: 9–16 Jan 2027 · with eduK8Explore →

Schools & organisationsSchools & PartnersCustom-designed workshops, sprints, camps, and hackathons with your students and staff. From robotics to AI, from business fundamentals to human-centric thinking - and everything in between. Workshops · Camps · HackathonsExplore →

OUR PHILOSOPHY

What Students Hone

In today's disruptive and ever-changing world, we believe the uniquely human skills will become ever more valuable. At Build Learning, we believe in creating programs that lie at the intersection of building AI literacy, while honing the uniquely human skills that technology can't replace.

A student project wall mapping the brief, understand, ideate, lead and demo stages with sticky notes

EmpathyUnderstanding human psychology, sociology, and behavioral science through human-centric research

StorytellingCommunication and presentation that grasp an audience, through various new media formats like websites and videos

CollaborationLearning how to collaborate with each other, working together to solve problems and navigate differences

DiscernmentThrough various activities like wire-framing, business fundamentals and human centric research, students learn systems, analytical and design thinking

Creative ConfidenceCreative, divergent thinking using well-known innovation methods like SCAMPER and more

AI LiteracyEvery student will learn how to setup AI workflows, and harness AI capability to bring their ideas to life, while understanding its limitations

The Method