In the following video, Ishan provides some guidance on the types of available summer programs which can help students decide on whether or not a program like this is worth pursuing.
About Leangap
Leangap is a competitive program that is fast growing in popularity. The CEO, Eddie Zhong, is a young whiz kid who established the startup not long ago because there weren't any entrepreneurial summer programs on offer when he was looking for one.
Reviews of/ Further information on Leangap
http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-accelerator-teen-startup-founders-2015-1
"Already, applications from around the world have begun flowing in. Students from China, Europe, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California and Texas are all vying for spots in the program.
Well-known entrepreneurs are also eager to get involved. Joe Thornton, former principal at Boston-based Highfields Capital Management and Bain Capital, has provided Zhong with funding and has signed on as Leangap's chief operating officer and chief financial officer. And Tim Peterson, who was formerly a molecular biologist at Harvard University and MIT is the company's new chief technology officer."
"Cambridge-based Leangap will debut this summer, and is billed as the first high school entrepreneurship accelerator program in the world that helps students ages 14 to 18 conceptualize and launch their businesses in six weeks."
http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/01/23/accelerator-for-high-school-students-leangap-price-dates/
"This week, Sara Castellanos at the Boston Business Journal broke the story on Leangap, a new Cambridge startup accelerator for high school students—which also happens to have a 17-year-old who's dropped out of high school as one of its founders. Expect the buzz to continue building now that the story has been picked up by Business Insider."
"Eddy Zhong is the kind of kid who could give an adult an inferiority complex: He launched a successful smartwatch company, Blanc Inc., at age 16, and now at age 17, he’s created a startup accelerator program for teenagers.
Called Leangap, his accelerator seeks to help high schoolers build their own companies through a six week summer academy. Since he announced the program in January, Leangap has received more than 100 applicants from as far away as India and Taiwan. The pilot session is set to begin in June."
https://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-Leangap-or-MIT-Launch
"Both programs are excellent in regards to comparing them against the very little opportunity ambitious high schoolers have today. But when it comes to the "itty-bitty" details, MIT Launch has the advantage for two crystal clear reasons...."
http://dreamschoolproject.com/teen-entrepreneur-creates-real-world-summer-business-program-for-teens/ - "One of the most distinguishing features of LeanGap is the high level of mentorship. Zhong and his team are bringing in a team of Harvard-, Yale-, and MIT-educated investors, developers, engineers, and entrepreneurs."