رُشدInnovation Initiative in Syria

We build the people who build the future.

Rushd turns ambitious students into job-ready builders who create value, take ownership, and grow into mentors and leaders in the new Syria.

A track is a room you join, not a course you buy.

You are not signing up for a playlist. You join a group that meets, builds, and gets reviewed on a schedule, led by someone who does this work for a living. The track only decides what you build.

The numbers speak for us

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You learn from people who work in the field.

Rushd pairs every student with an engineer working in the field, for a year or more. You build something real, your work gets reviewed, and later you mentor the students who come after you, without losing the mentors who taught you.

See what previous cohorts built

How it works

You are paired with a mentor working in the field you are training for. You meet regularly, you build, and your work gets checked. Mentors give direction and feedback. They do not lecture.

Where it leads

Finishing does not mean leaving with a certificate only. It means coming back as a mentor for the next cohort, keeping the network you built, and keeping the engineers who taught you. They are still in the field, and still there to ask.

Who it is for

University students in Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering, or something close, with a basic grip on programming and the will to stay a year or two.

What it costs

Nothing. Rushd is free. Places are decided on merit, and you keep yours by doing the work.

What makes Rushd different

Most programmes hand you material and leave you to it. Rushd puts you next to someone who does the work for a living.

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Rushd

You pay to enrol.

Free. You join on merit.

Someone with barely any experience in the field they are teaching.

An engineer working in the field, meeting you regularly.

Exercises that ship with the solution already written.

Real products, with problems nobody has solved for you.

Nobody reads what you produce.

Your work gets checked, and you are told what to fix.

It ends when you get the certificate.

It never ends. You stay on, you mentor the next cohort, and your own mentors are still there to ask.

Recorded lessons you watch alone.

Regular meetings with your mentor and the rest of your cohort.

The Transformation Journey

Student is where you start. Builder, mentor, and leader are who you become.

Rushd is designed as a compounding path. You build your craft, take ownership, help others rise, and become the kind of person people trust with bigger problems.

  1. Student

    You enter with raw ambition. You build discipline, technical depth, and the standards expected of serious professionals.

  2. Builder

    You stop consuming and start creating. You ship real products, solve real problems, and become genuinely job-ready.

  3. Mentor

    You strengthen your own edge by helping others rise. Teaching, feedback and responsibility become part of how you grow, and the engineers who taught you stay reachable for whatever you get stuck on.

  4. Leader

    You leave able to initiate, create value, and lead with substance, whether inside a company, a venture, or your community.

The same program, learned separately.

Same work, same standard, same year. What changes is who you learn beside.

Rushd

Mixed cohorts. You are paired with a mentor working in the field, you build something real, and your work gets checked.

Rushd for Girls

The same year, run separately, with women who work in the field as mentors.

The girls-only channel in a Rushd cohort Discord server

Every cohort gets a girls-only channel of its own, and the students we train go on to mentor the ones who come after them, with their own mentors still a message away.

Built for people who intend to matter.

If you want more than credentials, Rushd is where you build capability, credibility, and the confidence to create real impact.

Become a Student

You are at university, you can code a little, and you want to be the one who ships. One to two years, free, on merit.

Become a Mentor

You do this work for a living. Give a few hours a month to the people who will be doing it next.

Become a Volunteer

Design, editing, writing, events, operations, and more. Rushd runs on people who are not only engineers.

Like what we're building?

Partner with us. Fund a cohort, an event, or a CTF, mentor a track, or just say hello.

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