ReBootKamp

RBK uses a powerful new form of education technology to move refugees from poverty to prosperity in 4 months.

Solution: eXtreme Learning to rapidly convert knowledge capital into knowledge potential. 

Disadvantaged youth learn 21st century skills through a powerful new education technology that combines agile/scrum (pair/sprint based learning), problem-based learning and mindfulness training (yoga meditation, talking circles).

eXtreme Learning is rapidly scalable as a single cohort can produce facilitators for 10 other cohorts. Each of those 10 can produce facilitators for 10 more cohorts. Within in a year, over 1,000 labs can be deployed producing over 1.5 million high quality, 4th-industrial-revolution-ready technicians for a range of professions.

Problem 1: lack of access for vulnerable classes such as refugees / displaced persons and women in developing regions to acquire technical skills and more importantly, the non-technical skills required in the new digital economy.

Problem 2: Jordan is nearly last in digital competitiveness

Problem 3:Low digital trust in Jordan and the Middle East

Problem 4: Lack of intellectual infrastructure required for innovation in the digital economy

Problem 5: University degrees actually decrease chances of employment

Problem 6: Low female workforce participation

Evidence:
Zero-2-Hero in 4 months

Fatema from Aleppo

Refugees and vulnerable hosts building intellectual infrastructure.

100% placement of RBK graduates against a backdrop of 90K unemployed ICT /CS graduates in Jordan

The Reality of a Refugee Code Bootcamp

Training refugees for the 65% of jobs that don't exist today but will in the near future

Thrive v. Merely Survive

Ich bin ein refugee

Hack Your Way Out

Genesis Interview

A Drop In The Bucket :(

Primary Impact: Imparting the kinds of mental tools refugees will use to rebuild their countries

Secondary Impact: Dramatic increases in self-awareness, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-determination, growth mindset, empathy, patience and 2 dozen other personality traits that correlate with happy and successful.

Tertiary Impact: Employment. RBK grads support on average of 6 family members with some supporting up to 12.

Beneficiaries: Refugees and vulnerable hosts - rural females at risk of early marriage, rural males at risk of joining extremist groups.

Deployment: RBK has 2K applications for each 40-seat cohort. Labs are lightweight and rapidly deployable.

Outcomes team tracking. 3rd party tracking. - Employment within 6 months of graduation

Baseline assessments. Periodic assessments through out the training. Summary assessment. Quarterly employer reporting. - Dramatic increases in social intelligence, growth mindset, adaptability, empathy and a host of other soft skills / creative cognition / problem solving.

Baseline assessments. Periodic assessments through out the training. Summary assessment. Quarterly employer reporting. - Digital intelligence / technical ability

RBK has taken agile/scrum and constructivist education to the next level. Called eXtreme Learning, RBK is doing in 4 months what traditional education institutions cannot do in 4 years - deliver high quality, market ready technicians to industry with 5 core skill sets they demand. This includes 1) B2/C1 English fluency 2) soft skills 3) creative problem solving 4) autonomous learning ability and 5) strong technical ability in the tools / frameworks industry uses to produce their product and stay competitive.

Humans deliver the curricula to pairs of humans using a human-centered design pedagogy. Pairs of humans eventually transition to teams of humans solving complex problems. Fostering collaboration, conflict resolution and team building is at the core of RBK's mission. Fundamentally RBK is a leadership institute with a coding problem. We produce good humans, which in turn, are world-class software engineers. Good humans produced in our program inspire other humans both within family and tribe.

RBK.org > Apply.

There are no up-front costs. RBK uses a deferred tuition model. Students reimburse RBK by returning 18% of their monthly salary until their $7K obligation is met. Can range for 4 to 16 months.

RBK is also selling jobs to NGOs. We produce an employment agreement between an alumni fitting their vulnerability criteria and one of our hiring partners, UNDP, SPARK et. al. hands us a check for $7K. Compared to the previous scholarship model where half drop out and only 10% convert to jobs, our pay-for-performance model yields 100% outcomes for our NGO partners.

RBK uses a sustainable business model. For each lab, revenues from deferred tuition, placement fees from hiring partners and donor scholarships exceed expenses after 6 cohorts (2 years). Thereafter, revenues allow RBK to scale organically adding a new lab every 2-3 months. 

Competition if and when it occurs. Conflict. Political destabilisation. Economic recession. Industry taxation or unfavourable regulation which could push our hiring partners out of the country. 

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Tapping Solve's network of leaders and change makers to empower the disadvantaged and render the kinds of skills that will allow them competitive on the world stage as well as rebuild their countries. To call upon your collective knowledge base to guide us in scaling our powerful technology across the refugee landscape and into developing countries. 

Hack Reactor, SAP, UNHCR, UNDP, SPARK, DRC, Jordan Bromine Company, Relief International, The Malala Fund, Jordan Ministry of ICT

Universities, vocational training institutions