Programs

Find your way in.

Different programs. One connected ecosystem. Start where you are, and every program connects you to the next.

The WCT Ecosystem

A lifelong community
of technologists.

From first exposure to first job and beyond, WCT surrounds students with the experiences, skills, credentials, and relationships to become technologists. Then it creates pathways for them to return and help the next generation do the same.

Explore
Discover interests and possibilities
Build
Gain hands-on skills and create
Publish
Share real work with the world
Credential
Earn industry recognized credentials
Connect
Find people, opportunities, and community
Launch
Pursue college, careers, and entrepreneurship
Give Back
Return as advisors, mentors, and community leaders

and the next generation begins

TechRiseis where the ecosystem stays connected: students, alumni, advisors, and opportunities in one place.

TechRise

A We Create Tech Community

For: High school and college students, and young adult career changers

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TechRise is the community connecting students, college members, advisors and early-career technologists to advisement, certifications and opportunities. It is where the WCT ecosystem stays connected: members grow from learners into leaders, then come back to advise the next group.

Lead or join a WCT college chapter
A personalized pathway based on your interests
Advisement and help making connections, plus skill building and real industry exposure
Free industry certifications through Google and Coursera

Applications open. TechRise enrolls new members quarterly until spots are full. Open to high school and college students and young adult career changers. Every application is reviewed by our team.

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TechRise Certifications

Free, industry-recognized credentials

For: High school students and young adults, ages 13 to 24

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TechRise members earn industry-recognized credentials across tech, creative, and STEAM fields at no cost. Through partnerships with Coursera, Google, Duke University, Meta, Microsoft, Figma, PwC, IBM, AWS, and DeepLearning.AI, members earn certifications from leading institutions, with career coaching and life skills support to help them land the job.

Choose your path

Cloud Computing
Data Science
Frontend Development
Cybersecurity
Backend Development
Product Design (UI/UX)
Digital Marketing
AI Prompt Engineering
Project Management
Innovation Management
Entrepreneurship and Startup Development
Customer Success
Financial Management
Leadership and Innovation

Self-paced and flexible. No prior tech experience needed.

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To apply, you must be 13 to 24 years old and a TechRise member.

Featured global partnership

TechCert Nigeria 🌍

With Rad5 Tech Hub, WCT brings free global IT certifications to young adults in Abia State, Nigeria, with credentials from Coursera, Google, Microsoft, IBM, AWS, and more across 14 in-demand pathways.

The 2026 application window has closed. Follow Rad5 Tech Hub for the next cohort. Open to ages 18 to 35 in Abia State.

Learn about TechCert Nigeria →

Not quite old enough yet?

TechRise is open to ages 13 to 24, but your younger student can get on our radar now. Leave your info and we'll follow up when they're eligible, and keep you posted on CreativX Lab and NextGen Tech Collective in the meantime.

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CreativX Lab

A We Create Tech Program

For: High school students, grades 9 to 12

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CreativX Lab is a hands-on, no-homework tech exploration series that sparks interest in high-demand career pathways. Through in-person workshops, students get real exposure to a wide range of tech disciplines and creative tools, all in under 50 hours.

UX and Web Design
Digital Media and Creative Tech
Coding and Software Development
Cybersecurity and IT Support
AI and Machine Learning
Engineering and Robotics
Tech and Financial Innovation

Beginner-friendly and taught entirely during program hours, with no outside assignments. A great fit for schools, community centers, and community organizations.

Bring CreativX Lab to Your School →How we teach: Prove It ↓See what students built →

Students building projects in CreativX Lab

CreativX Sport

A We Create Tech Initiative

For: Students across WCT programs, community partners, and adaptive athletes

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CreativX Sport teaches students to think like designers at the intersection of technology and adaptive sport. Students learn the full design thinking process, from research and empathy interviews with real athletes to prototyping, testing, and iteration. Working alongside adaptive athletes and community partners, they explore how to make sport more accessible through footwear, equipment, mobility tools, and gear concepts that could one day move from prototype to product.

Design thinking and a human-centered design process
Prototyping with Figma, CAD, and 3D printing
Empathy-driven research with adaptive athletes as collaborators
Adaptive solutions across soccer, basketball, track, and more
Concepts with the potential to refine, develop, and bring to market

CreativX Sport connects across CreativX Lab, TechRise, and summer intensives. In partnership with the Atlanta Adaptive Soccer Foundation.

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CreativX Sport students working with adaptive athletes

Dance Code Create

A We Create Tech Summer Camp, with Georgia Tech CEISMC and Rainbow Dance Theatre

For: Middle and high school students

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Dance Code Create is a summer camp where students merge coding, music production, wearable technology, and movement into one creative experience. Campers make beats and original songs with code in EarSketch, design and build wearable tech, develop choreography, and bring it all together in a final performance rooted in a cause they care about.

Code-based music production with EarSketch
Wearable technology design and fabrication
Choreography and movement
AI exploration and Georgia Tech lab tours
Career exploration in creative tech
A final performance with original music, wearable tech, and a student-chosen cause

Two summers strong at Georgia Tech. No prior coding or dance experience needed. Where creativity and technology collide.

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Summer 2027

Be first to know when Dance Code Create 2027 opens.

Get dates, registration, and scholarship details sent straight from WCT as soon as they're announced.

Georgia Institute of Technology
Middle and high school students
No experience needed
Scholarships available

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NextGen Tech Collective

Free monthly community tech experiences

For: Students, educators, and the community

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NextGen Tech Collective is our monthly series of in-person and virtual tech experiences. From coding sessions and creative workshops to career conversations and tech trends, these events bring future innovators together, wherever they are.

Free monthly events, virtual and in person
Hands-on workshops, AI projects, and career prep
Great for schools, parents, and community centers

View Upcoming Events →How we teach: Prove It ↓

Community members at a NextGen Tech Collective event

How we teach

Prove It. Don't just ask AI.
Challenge it.

At We Create Tech, students don't just learn to use emerging technology. They learn to question it.

Building on our experiences with AI bias, student-created language models, and real-world problem-solving, we're developing Prove It, an instructional method that combines artificial intelligence with traditional research, community knowledge, and hands-on discovery.

Through CreativX Lab and NextGen Tech Collective, students learn to ask questions, investigate evidence, compare findings, and defend conclusions they reach themselves.

Because the future doesn't just need better AI users. It needs independent thinkers.

Ask
Students choose a question that matters to them and look at what AI says about it.
Investigate
They gather their own evidence through library research, experiments, sensors, interviews and people in the community.
Compare
They hold the AI answer up against their evidence: what matches, what conflicts, what has no support, and what is still uncertain.
Decide
They reach their own evidence-based conclusion and defend it.

Where students use it CreativX Lab ↑ NextGen Tech Collective ↑

Prove It is adapted to each student's age and stage, from guided investigations with younger learners to more independent work with older students. We only bring AI into a lesson when it supports what students are learning.