What's included
The fellowship carries the full Element Education curriculum, removes the cost barrier, and adds mentorship and a demo day built around community-identified challenges.
The model is simple: no tuition, no payment plan, no debt. We are raising scholarship funding now, and we will not open a cohort until the seats in it are covered. You bring the commitment and the problem worth solving.
Funding in progressLearn what AI tools actually do, where they help, where they mislead, and how to use them as leverage in real product work, not as a party trick.
Research, wireframes, a full design system and a clickable prototype. The craft and the reasoning behind it, taught the way it's practiced in industry.
Turn the prototype into a working web or mobile application using no-code and AI-assisted development. No prior coding experience required.
Positioning, pricing, launch and the business mechanics behind a product, whether you're pitching an employer or standing up your own venture.
We are building a mentor circle of Indigenous founders and technologists who have shipped their own products and who understand both the work and the context. If that describes you, we would like to talk.
The program closes with a demo day where fellows present products addressing challenges identified by their own communities, in front of peers, mentors and invited guests.
Five disciplines,
twelve weeks
The same practical, job-ready curriculum that runs in every Element Education cohort. Nothing is watered down for the fellowship. The difference is who it's for, who mentors it, and who the work is built for.
Understand how modern AI tools work well enough to direct them. You'll use AI throughout the program as a research partner, a design accelerator and a build assistant, and you'll learn to tell the difference between a useful output and a confident wrong one.
From user research and problem framing through to wireframes, a complete design system and a clickable prototype. You leave with the artifacts a hiring manager asks to see, and the ability to explain the decisions behind each one.
Take the design and make it real. Front end, data, authentication and deployment, assembled with no-code platforms and AI-assisted development so the barrier is your idea, not your syntax.
What happens after the build. Validating demand, positioning, pricing, landing pages and launch. The practical business layer that turns a working app into something people can actually find and use.
Unique to the fellowship. Your project starts from a challenge your own community identifies, and you carry that relationship through the full twelve weeks: research, design, build and demo day. The community defines the problem; you build the answer.
How it runs
Four phases. Every week ends with something concrete: a document, a file, a working screen, a live product.
Meet your community challenge, frame the problem, and pressure-test it into a product brief.
Research through to a design system and a clickable prototype people can react to.
Turn the prototype into a working web or mobile application with real data behind it.
Ship it, position it, and present it at demo day to your community and the cohort.