Frequently asked questions.

Motivated students from roughly Grade 8 through undergraduate. There's no requirement to arrive with research experience — curiosity, commitment, and a willingness to learn the computational toolkit matter far more than prior credentials.

Plan for about 10 hours per week across the 6–9 month cohort, including a weekly live online session with mentors and fellow researchers. This is real research, so the time commitment is real — but it's designed to fit alongside school.

Fully online. Weekly cohort discussions happen over video, mentorship is remote, and all training materials live in the members-only resource library. Students can participate from anywhere.

A genuine, citable research manuscript authored by the student and submitted to a public preprint archive such as arXiv. We aim to prepare work to the standard of peer-reviewed venues, but — as our guarantee explains — we never promise acceptance, only the submitted, citable output.

Registration for the orientation is free. There is a cohort enrollment fee, payable once your student has attended the orientation and been invited to join — you'll see the amount when you proceed to payment. You can pay securely by credit card or e-check using the Pay now button on the Apply page, or by bank transfer (ACH) — just email us.

Enrolled students receive a cohort access code by email once enrollment is complete. Enter it on the Resources page to open the training videos, lecture notes, papers, prior research, and worked examples — all of which we expand every week.

Computational Neuroscience (our anchor field), Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Power Systems. Not sure which fits? That's fine — say so on the registration form and we'll help match you to a well-scoped problem.

Roughly five students per cohort, deliberately. Small cohorts mean each student gets a genuinely mentored, well-scoped problem and direct attention from senior research scientists — which is why seats go quickly.