INDUSTRY and TECHNOLOGY@Altus
This section explains where Technology and Industry are converging that will change the education, learning and impact models. The Altus Education model not only gets you to the Top Schools/ Ivy Leagues but also prepares you for a great internship and jobs of the future.
/THE NEXT TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION IS IN THE WORKS/
While the video looks pretty futuristic, we perhaps may not have to wait till 2050. We will perhaps be there in 20 years from today.
The industry is changing right now, with everything nearly going digital. That’s the new normal. With technology comes skill and, thus, job obsolescence. Students in high school today will encounter an entirely different world when they graduate where the skills needed would be exceptionally high-end and taught in a few schools.
/WHAT WILL BE THE RULES TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE FUTURE?/
High schoolers need to understand that the concept of work is going to change drastically in the next 5 to 6 years.
The high schoolers generation is observing their parents, who in turn watched their parents. Today high schoolers cannot imagine working for a company for 30 years and then retiring. The concept of innovative work entices them instead of the concept of retirement. They hate politics and seriously want to build wealth. It’s the new generation!
The video below explains a clear idea of where the future is headed.
/WHAT WE TEACH & HOW WE TEACH/
We crowdsource knowledge from hundreds of professionals from Harvard Business School PLD program and the Industry.
Knowledge is democratized, but the application of knowledge is the way of the future. Students at Altus Education can connect with professionals in the industry way early in their careers and ask for feedback for their project work.
What Altus Education does really well is to find what kind of a project, its outcome, and relevance will help get to the school of choice, an internship later, and followed by a job or gig post their graduation. That’s our vision – to connect their school, their subjects, their skills, their projects, work experience into one whole trajectory.
/HOW DOES THIS IMPACT STUDENT PROJECTS – APPLIED LEARNING/
Our approach to experiential learning is the way pilots learn how to fly. We create the atmosphere of a “flight simulator” through our mentorship and coaching model that helps build the foundation for enriched project-based learning, followed by prototyping and finally measuring the outcomes and the impact.
/SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS & IMPACT/
The project below is under the “Patent Pending” status with the US Government.
This project is a design of a wearable device that connects with “pacemakers” to help patients monitor their health in real-time and also connect with remote health monitoring.
The project is being run by Abhi Barat of Shrewsbury High School. Currently, he is engaged in reaching out to professors, industry professionals and pacemaker manufacturers to critique and fine-tune his project.