Documented system

Open Avenues Build Fellowship

What it is

Mentored project work with industry fellows, producing real deliverables international students can put on a resume.

Why it matters

Project‑based experience without the sponsorship barrier that closes most doors early.

Role

Center‑side partnership coordination, program analysis and the annual report. Run in partnership with Open Avenues.

Status

AY 2025‑26 complete. Four cycles.

The shape of itA partnership pipeline managed on its numbers: four cycles instrumented end to end, from application through completed deliverable.

392applications across four cycles

132selections

79completed projects

50industry fellows mentoring

Cycle	Applications	Students applying	Selected	Completed	Completion
September 2025	148	67	49	30	61%
October 2025	25	10	8	2	25%
February 2026	124	48	40	21	53%
March 2026	95	41	35	26	74%
Year	392	166	132	79	60%

Applications count submissions; students apply to multiple projects. Distinct people: 140 applied across the year, 71 completed at least one project. The completion trend closed the year at its high, 74% in the March cycle.

Where students built

Business and Finance75% of completed projects59

Computer Science and Data9%7

Science and Health8%6

Engineering6%5

Law3%2

Claim discipline

The annual report separates submissions from distinct people throughout, and it documents a data‑entry error found in a source file for the March cycle, 9 recorded where 95 was correct, with the correction shown rather than silently applied. Numbers that survive scrutiny are the only kind worth reporting.