{"id":9869,"date":"2022-06-20T10:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/fully-funded-mest-training-program-for-software-developers-in-africa-2020\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T10:27:05","slug":"fully-funded-mest-training-program-for-software-developers-in-africa-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/fully-funded-mest-training-program-for-software-developers-in-africa-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Fully Funded MEST Training Program for Software Developers in Africa 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MEST offers a fully sponsored 12-month graduate-level entrepreneurial training in business, communications and software development, including extensive hands-on project work, culminating in a final pitch and the chance to receive seed funding.<\/p>\n<p>The year-long training programme provides Entrepreneurs-in-Training (EITs) with MBA-level entrepreneurship training in business, software development and communications.<\/p>\n<p>While diving deep into fundamental business and technology concepts, EITs complete 3 Capstones per year \u2013 they form teams, come up with an idea, build and validate a product, attain customers and pitch the idea in front of our board.<\/p>\n<p>The year culminates in a final exam in the form of an investor pitch, after which some companies will receive seed funding and enter the MEST Incubator.<\/p>\n<p>MEST offers graduate-level entrepreneurial training in business, communications and software development, including extensive hands-on project work, culminating in a Final Pitch and the chance to receive seed funding.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Worth_of_Award\"\/><strong>Worth of Award<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<p>The MEST program is fully funded, including free tuition, room and board, 3 meals per day and a small monthly stipend.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Eligibility\"\/><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<p>Applicants must have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A deep passion for starting a software company<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurial or corporate work experience<\/li>\n<li>A degree from a top University or Technical College (or equivalent experience)<\/li>\n<li>Accepted candidates must be able to commit to spending a year in Accra, Ghana at the MEST training program starting August.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Apply\"\/><strong>How to Apply<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<p>Apply online via their website by clicking the link below<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadline:<\/strong>\u00a0applications close<strong> February 7, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Click_here_for_more_details_and_to_apply\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/meltwater.org\/Join-mest\/become-an-eit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><strong>Click here for more details and to apply<\/strong><\/a><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEST offers a fully sponsored 12-month graduate-level entrepreneurial training in business, communications and software development, including extensive hands-on project work, culminating in a final pitch and the chance to receive seed funding&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uptymes.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}