Flagship program
Real World Ready
A flagship program that helps young people build the skills, habits, and inner tools to move in the real world — starting things, making decisions, communicating clearly, working with others, and navigating their careers with intention.
- Practice-heavy experiences where students actually do things in the session (not passive lectures).
- Careers, people, and projects looked at as systems — broken down into small, deliberate experiments.
- Real-world projects, outreach, communication, and shipping work into the world — not just “doing assignments”.
Partners
Who Real World Ready is for
Real World Ready usually runs in partnership with organisations that work with young people — colleges, foundations, communities, and companies. We also occasionally run open cohorts that individual students and young professionals can join directly.
Colleges & Universities
A parallel “real-world curriculum” that sits alongside degrees and prepares students for work, projects, and life after college.
- Engineering & science colleges
- Professional degree programs
- Campus innovation / entrepreneurship cells
Nonprofits & Foundations
Youth-focused programs where opportunity-finding, initiative, and long-term career readiness are central to your mission.
- Fellowship & scholarship cohorts
- Community learning initiatives
- CSR programs for youth skilling
Student & Tech Communities
Communities that attract self-driven learners and want a structured journey that turns curiosity into projects, contributions, and real opportunities.
- Developer & open-source communities
- Campus clubs & maker spaces
- Startup / innovation communities
Outcomes
What students walk away with
Real World Ready is not about motivational speeches or neat lists of “skills”. It is a sequence of experiences where students start things, work through friction, make decisions, communicate, reflect, and see themselves differently on the other side.
Start and keep moving
Tools to move from overthinking to action — handling fear, perfectionism, and confusion so that ideas actually turn into projects, outreach, experiments, and visible proof of work.
Clarity & navigation
Ways to think about careers and life as systems — mapping options, running small tests, making decisions under uncertainty, and adjusting with feedback instead of drifting or freezing.
Communication & collaboration
Practice in expressing themselves clearly, asking for help, reaching out to people they don’t yet know, and working with others on real work instead of staying in solo “assignment mode”.
Formats
Program formats
Real World Ready is modular. Under the hood there is a growing library of 30+ sessions — across self-knowledge, communication, people skills, meta-learning, building, doing, and more. Together, we select and sequence what makes sense for your learners, calendar, and constraints.
Signature series
A multi-week journey combining live sessions, activities, and reflection — designed as a flagship program for your organisation or campus.
Intensive bootcamps
Short, high-energy formats (2–5 days) that kickstart new behaviours — starting, shipping, and rethinking how students approach their future and their work.
Custom tracks
Tailored tracks for specific cohorts — student leaders, fellowship batches, volunteers, or community organisers — built from the same Real World Ready building blocks.
In the wild
Examples of Real World Ready in the wild
Real World Ready often runs under co-branded names with our partners. With TinkerHub, for instance, it runs as “Beyond the Blueprint”. With FOSS United, it powered tracks at FOSS Hack 2025 to help students decide what to build and how to tell the story of their work. The DNA stays the same: real-world learning, initiative, communication, execution, and reflective thinking — just adapted to each community.
Featured case study
Beyond the Blueprint · TinkerHub Foundation
A multi-session Real World Ready series for undergraduates across Kerala, co-branded with TinkerHub. Students explored agency, shitty first drafts, career design, system thinking, and navigating their future — in rooms that were honest, interactive, and surprisingly vulnerable.
- 170+ students in person at Kochi camp, plus multiple online sessions
- Deep shifts in language, confidence, and how students approach opportunities
- Documented as a full written case study with videos, screenshots, and student stories
FOSS Hack 2025 · FOSS United
An adaptation of Real World Ready for FOSS Hack 2025, focused on helping student developers choose meaningful problems, scope projects realistically, and showcase their work — from README and licensing to demos and storytelling. You can read FOSS United's write-up of the collaboration here .
- Program tracks aligned with a real hackathon and deadlines
- Emphasis on contribution, collaboration, and clear storytelling of projects
Sai Rahul Poruri, CEO of FOSS United, shares how Real World Ready shaped the way hundreds of students approached the FOSS Hack 2025 hackathon.
Interested in running Real World Ready with your students?
Tell us a bit about your learners, your context, and the kind of movement you want to see in them. We’ll help you scope the right mix of sessions and formats and see whether there’s a strong fit — whether you're a college, a community, a nonprofit, or a student trying to bring this to your campus.