Built by students.
For real clients.
Every project started with a prompt, a $10,000 budget, and a team of students who were closest to the problem — and trusted to solve it.
The Net Gala
A social networking event for BIPOC teenagers interested in healthcare careers
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NewComm's inaugural cohort designed and produced The Net Gala from scratch — a formal networking evening that brought together 100 students from across NYC and 50 healthcare professionals for conversation, catered food, and relationship-building.
The evening gave young people from historically marginalized communities direct access to general practitioners, anesthesiologists, medical administrators, psychiatrists, and surgeons — all in a setting designed to feel like belonging, not auditioning.
The Net Gala modeled what NewComm believes: that proximity to professionals — real proximity, over real time — is how the next generation of healthcare leaders gets built.
ProspHER
A financial empowerment festival for young women of color
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ProspHER is an interactive festival designed to teach young women financial literacy and expose them to alternative career pathways — through hands-on stations where they actually do the work, guided by professionals in each field.
At the cosmetology station, students styled hair. At the building station, they constructed models. At the web development station, they designed websites. In partnership with 914United, ProspHER gave participants real-time experience in trades and licensed professions.
Every station was staffed by a working professional. Every conversation pointed toward a concrete next step. The festival was built so that young women left with more than inspiration — they left with a plan.
Roots and Routes
A project accelerator for student passion projects, culminating in a block party
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Roots and Routes started from a simple observation: students are already learning — launching businesses, building products, pursuing passions. The gap is that no one is funding or celebrating the learning they're doing on their own.
Cohort 3 built a project accelerator that funded 10 student ventures — a cookie business, an eyelash enterprise, a custom prom dress, a voice-activated drone, a mini marathon exclusively for teenagers.
The whole thing culminated in a block party — a public celebration of student-driven learning. When young people build something real, it deserves to be celebrated publicly, with music and food and a crowd.
Every project starts
with a prompt.
A question. A community. A $10,000 investment in students who are closest to the problem. See what they build.
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