ACORN Aspirations

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Acorn Aspirations is an award-winning startup that aims to empower young people to explore innovative technologies in VR, AR and AI to produce solutions to global challenges. Since its inception in 2015, Acorn Aspirations has organised over 15 hackathons, 3 accelerator programmes, 2 bootcamps and a conference, which had over 2,500 young people aged 12-18 co-create with mentors from Universities including London Business School, Imperial College, Kings College, UCL and some of the UK’s leading start-ups. The young participants came from diverse backgrounds including London’s most underprivileged boroughs, such as Tower Hamlets, Haringey, Tottenham Hale, Barnet, Camden and Southwark. Over 50% of Acorn Aspirations community are girls.