A mentor–mentee program that inspires, educates, and brings underserved Black communities into technology. Free education, a named mentor, a real pipeline into work — and a five-phase path for the founders among you.
Mentorship builds sustainable long-term success. BTMP's global platform creates space to fail, but not to be a failure. Whether through speaking, educating or advising, there is a way for you to give back.
Commit to share best practices, offer support and spark imagination about what is possible within technology — or step onto the path yourself.
Fulfil your desire to make an impact. Two hours a month, a structured development plan and training on how to give feedback that actually lands. Most mentors renew for a second year.
The way to begin. The way forward. From adolescence, teens and onward to adulthood, the path to a career or a company is long and necessary — and much shorter with someone experienced beside you.
Education, mentorship, placement, incubation and organisational training — designed to hand off to each other rather than stand alone.
Self-paced coursework, small-group labs and live speaker sessions that take a curious beginner to job-ready practitioner without asking them to quit their life.
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A structured match between a mentee and an experienced technologist, with a shared development plan, scheduled sessions and measurable checkpoints.
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Career development for people entering the workforce and for mid-career professionals pivoting into technology, ending in real introductions to hiring partners.
Explore this serviceThe world has changed and has never been so reliant on technical tools as it is today. We teach against that reality, not against a syllabus written a decade ago.
Systems fundamentals, Linux, networking, version control, two programming languages and the deployment pipeline that turns code into a running service.
Kinematics, sensors, actuators and control loops, taught on real hardware in the lab and on simulators at home.
Statistics, classical machine learning, deep learning and the evaluation discipline that keeps a model honest once it leaves the notebook.
Defensive and offensive fundamentals, threat modelling, incident response and a quarterly live range exercise against a scored scenario.
Spatial computing, 3D pipelines and interaction design for headsets and handhelds.
Communication, written argument, estimation, conflict, negotiation and the entrepreneurial habits that separate a contributor from a leader.
We support future founders and entrepreneurs by providing resources and guidance to start and run their new businesses. The path to becoming a pioneer is filled with hurdles and steep learning curves. Shipyards focuses on helping founders get the information they need to excel from lab to funding and lab to market.
A ten-class introductory course on becoming an entrepreneurial pioneer and what it means to be one. Founders leave with a written problem statement, a customer hypothesis and an honest self-assessment of what they can and cannot build alone.
Our pre-filtration system that advises prospective startups on processes, needs and documentation to minimise the difficulties and mistakes common in the startup industry. This is where we tell founders the hard truths early — before they are expensive.
With our incubator partnerships we help secure resources, funding, advisory and experienced mentor guidance to build out your product in depth. Teams ship a working system against real users.
Our accelerator platforms provide startups with everything needed to finish the last mile to market: pricing, positioning, compliance, hiring and the investor materials that survive scrutiny.
Even after going to market, startups often need extra support on marketing, advertising and handling growth and scale. We provide continued access to advisors so the founder is not alone at the moment the company starts working.
I came in able to write a script and left able to ship a service. The difference was not the material — it was somebody senior telling me, every two weeks, exactly what was still missing.
Janelle R.Backend Engineer, Cohort 4
Shipyards told me in phase two that my market was not there. That conversation saved me two years and my savings. The next idea went through all five phases and raised a seed round.
Kwame A.Founder, Shipyards 2024
As a mentor I expected to donate a few hours. I got a structured plan, training on how to give feedback, and a mentee who now outranks me in production incidents handled.
Priya S.Principal SRE & BTMP Mentor
Our team ran the organisational training and then hosted three mentees. Retention in that group is the highest in the engineering org eighteen months later.
Daniel M.VP Engineering, Partner Company
BTMP talent undergoes a demanding process working through a development plan customised to see them succeed. Mentees gain the ability to reduce team friction and maximise collaboration.
Technology needs people who are ready to hit the ground running. We foster a drive in our mentees to run through the finish line — whether that is funding a new company or securing a new job.
Long-form pieces from our curriculum leads, mentors and founders.
Prompting is not a skill — evaluation is. A practical curriculum for judging model output, measuring drift and knowing when not to use a model at all.
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The field screens for demonstrated capability more than any other corner of tech. Here is the evidence portfolio that actually gets read.
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Six real job families behind the word 'robotics', what each one pays, what it demands, and the cheapest honest way to find out if it is for you.
Read the articleAnyone from adolescence onward who is serious about building a career in technology. We run tracks for teenagers exploring the field, for adults entering the workforce for the first time, and for professionals pivoting from another industry. There is no degree requirement and no entrance exam — the application asks about your goals, your available hours and what you have already tried to learn on your own.
Core mentorship and the education platform are free to accepted mentees. Where a track needs hardware, exam vouchers or cloud credits, BTMP covers them through partner funding. We also offer stipends to remove the barriers that most often end a promising cohort — unreliable internet access and the absence of a working machine.
Plan for six to ten hours a week: roughly four hours of self-paced coursework, a two-hour small group lab, and a one-hour mentor session every other week. Tracks run twelve to twenty-four weeks depending on discipline. Everything is recorded, so a missed session is recoverable.
Tell the programme team. Re-matching is a normal outcome, not a failure — roughly one pair in eight re-matches after the first quarterly review. We ask both people for written feedback, adjust the matching criteria, and restart with a fresh development plan.
No, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does. What Pipelines guarantees is a verified skills gap report, at least six rehearsed interview loops, negotiation coaching, and warm introductions to partner engineering teams that have open requisitions. The hiring decision stays with the employer.
Applications for the next cohort are open. Tell us where you are and we will map the path forward.
