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How mentoring works at The Foundry

The mentors are
in your community.

The strongest mentors a school has are its own: old scholars and parents who have built things and want to give back. The Foundry gives you a structured reason to bring them in by module, supports the outreach, and augments with its growing network across schools.

The base
Your old scholars and parents
The program's first mentors are the people your school already knows: alumni and parents who have built businesses, run teams, and raised capital, and who want to give back. The Foundry gives you a structured, recurring reason to bring them into the classroom, and the school keeps the alumni and parent engagement that flows from it.
How it runs
Matched to the module, prepared properly
We give you the framework to activate that network: who to approach for which module, how to brief them, and how to prepare the students so the session does real work. A founder for problem discovery, a lender for the financial model, a designer for the prototype. Sixty minutes, on a topic they know inside out.
It compounds
The network grows across schools
Over time the mentor base builds across every Foundry school, so we can bring mentors from one community to another and support schools whose networks are thinner. We add the occasional marquee name for a set-piece moment, but the test is always whether someone can land with a 16-year-old, not whether they're the biggest name.
// Become a mentor

If you've built something,
we want to hear from you.

Mentors usually come in through a school they're connected to, as an old scholar or a parent. You come in by module to give students access to the craft you've spent your career building. Each session is 60 minutes, in a specific school, on a topic you know inside out.

We match the brief to your craft, prepare the students before you arrive, and make sure the time you spend is doing real work. The schools we partner with want their students close to real founders, lenders, designers, marketers, lawyers, and operators. If that's you, get in touch.

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