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Graduates of MindCraft’s free online business school, who have already created and defended their own business projects, will receive new tools to develop them. AI backpacks from Volodymyr Lytvyn are personal subscriptions to AI services, MindCraft Startup Backpack.
The program is launched by Lytvyn Foundation, founded by Kharkiv IT entrepreneur Volodymyr Lytvyn. AI backpacks will not have the same set of services for all participants. The contents will depend on what the graduate is working on: researching the market, preparing a presentation, creating video or visual content, developing a website or app.
Teenagers join the program with projects of their own, created during MindCraft training. This is a free online business school for students 13–17 years old, founded by Lytvyn within the foundation. Over several cohorts, the school has received more than 1000 applications, and its graduates include 400 teenagers from various regions of Ukraine.
89 of the projects created by the students reached the internal pitch. Graduates present and defend their projects before an expert panel, and the strongest among them receive investments and grants from the Lytvin foundation for further development. The AI backpack program by Volodymyr Lytvyn is launched following the school’s pitching results.
How Volodymyr Lytvyn’s AI backpacks will be formed
Before the program starts, each graduate completes a brief survey and defines one priority task for which they need an AI tool. The answer determines the direction of the MindCraft Startup Backpack and the set of services.
The program covers five directions:
market research, competitors, and target audience;
creation of presentations;
video work: shooting, editing, and processing;
creation of static visuals;
development of websites, apps, and other IT products.
Each participant receives a subscription to one or two AI services for one to three months.
For graduates who do not yet have experience working with complex AI services, the digital backpack can be supplemented with a five online-session course on 90 minutes. The format allows the course to be repeated with updates about AI services.
From school to further business development
MindCraft is part of the Lytvyn Foundation’s system of educational projects for teens. In addition to the online business school, the foundation runs Code The Future hackathons, where participants work on real business tasks in the digital sphere using AI.
For graduates who continue to develop their projects, there is a business club and an incubator with mentor-practitioners. Volodymyr Lytvyn’s AI backpacks complement this system with digital tools.
Lytvyn Foundation also supports a sports-education direction. Together with tennis player Elina Svitolina’s foundation, a program ONE POINT for young tennis players 10–14 years old has been launched. It combines competitions, networking with well-known Ukrainian athletes, and a grant 100 000 hryvnias for the winner from Lytvyn Foundation.
Reference
Volodymyr Lytvyn is a Ukrainian IT entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and owner of a number of successful businesses.
Founder of Lytvyn Foundation — a charitable foundation that builds a systemic free education for teenagers in entrepreneurship and technology. The strongest participants in the foundation’s projects receive grants to develop their own ideas and dreams.
Lytvyn believes entrepreneurial thinking should be formed from adolescence. That is why his foundation works with children 13–17 years old, investing in a new generation that will build Ukraine’s future.
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