BetterMind LabsReviews of bettermindlabs.org

Being a student at BetterMind Labs has been an incredibly valuable experience. The program gave me hands-on exposure to AI and machine learning in a way that felt practical, engaging, and easy to understand. Rather than just learning theory, I was able to work on real-world projects that strengthened both my technical and problem-solving skills. What stood out most was the supportive mentorship and collaborative environment. Our mentors consistently went above and beyond. Often staying long after calls were supposed to end just to ensure we fully understood concepts and stayed on track. They pushed us to remain persistent as a team and helped us overcome every obstacle that came our way, always encouraging resilience, critical thinking, and innovation. BetterMind Labs has helped me build confidence in my abilities and deepened my interest in technology and entrepreneurship. I would highly recommend it to any student looking to explore AI, gain practical experience, and challenge themselves in a meaningful way.

I had a great time interacting with the instructors and the mentors, and I was able to learn many things about both AI/Ml and software development. Overall, it was a very educating experience and I was able to develop many skills that I can apply anywhere and that will prove to be very useful for me in the future.

BetterMind Labs offers an amazing learning experience for high school students. The mentorship was incredibly helpful, and the real-world projects made the bootcamp both practical and engaging. I gained valuable skills and confidence that will definitely help my future studies and career.

The experience with BetterMind Labs was very enlightening and enriching. I genuinely enjoyed the lectures, as well as the small group specialization!

I have taken both the 4 week AI/ML certification program and the 12 week advanced program. I think the program, despite having some downsides relating to its depth, is ultimately quite beneficial due to the undeniable breadth of AI/ML concepts it covers. To start, the course is online, so that will naturally limit what it can teach you. An online course for me simply didn't feel as immersive and won't be as exciting as it could have been. Also, I thought that a few of the webinar-styled lessons on topics I didn't really like felt like they dragged on. Because the course is intended to teach many concepts in AI/ML in just a few months (when fully learning everything takes years, so this is to be expected), it can't fully dive through deep rabbit holes relating to one specific concept. The mentors do a decent job explaining, but analogies have to be used as opposed to a highly technical and mathematical perspective. Despite these drawbacks, there are some stellar parts about the program that I simply can't ignore. To start, this program does a project for both courses: the first program has a basic project with a team of 2 (plus mentor), while the second has a more complex individual+mentor project that feels a lot more forgiving in terms of timing. These give the real deal. The projects showed me with brutal honesty how hard it is to create an app totally from scratch, and made me regard the experience of finally completing my super rewarding. Even though I forgot some of the concepts, just because of the sheer number of stuff I needed to learn, I will always have a very robust view of what someone means when he/she says "AI developer". I now know that building a model entails not just using a model, but compiling everything about I knew about computer science to build a complex micro-serviced structure with a connected front-end and back-end. I also know that "AI" is a fairly generic term and encloses so many more specific career paths within it, such as ML engineering, back-end developer, and even prompt engineering. To me, it's better to learn how complex a field is and forget a few of the concepts than to not be exposed to the field's complexity in the first place. Essentially, the drawbacks aren't because the program is poorly run, but because it is a few-month online program with a finite scope. Although this program isn't magic and isn't fun every single second, I saw it as a good bang for my buck due to it being realistic and opening doors to many fields within AI development, not just one or two.

We had an amazing experience with Bettermind labs and would highly recommend. My teen worked on real world projects and presentations and got good advice from mentors along the way who helped guide her!

This was a wonderful opportunity! I learned so much and made so many connections along the way. Though my program is over they still help me to this day! 100% recommend

I had a really great experience at BetterMind Labs. The program helped me learn how machine learning models actually work and gave me the opportunity to build my own project from start to finish. I ended up developing an AI-based stock forecasting web app using Python and historical market data. I appreciated that the program encouraged problem solving instead of just following tutorials. I spent a lot of time working through data cleaning, debugging code, and experimenting with different models before I found what works for me. Overall, it was a very valuable experience and I’m glad I had the opportunity to be part of it.