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✓ Grant SubmittedLinkedIn Future of Work Fund — $200K–$300K · Results expected 60–90 days
Agentic AI2026 marks the shift from AI demos to civic deployment — DJMP is already there
AI EthicsAI literacy is becoming a human right — nonprofits must lead the equity response
CybersecurityPrompt injection attacks on AI agents cannot be fully patched — workforce training is the answer
PathwayAIDJMP’s autonomous AI agents connect Chicagoland residents to federal workforce funding
FortinetOfficial Academic Partner · Training Chicago’s next cybersecurity workforce
✓ Grant SubmittedLinkedIn Future of Work Fund — $200K–$300K · Results expected 60–90 days
Agentic AI2026 marks the shift from AI demos to civic deployment — DJMP is already there
AI EthicsAI literacy is becoming a human right — nonprofits must lead the equity response
CybersecurityPrompt injection attacks on AI agents cannot be fully patched — workforce training is the answer
PathwayAIDJMP’s autonomous AI agents connect Chicagoland residents to federal workforce funding
FortinetOfficial Academic Partner · Training Chicago’s next cybersecurity workforce
DJMP Institute · Our Mission

Building AI architects and cybersecurity defenders from students the system overlooked — starting in Chicagoland.

We are not waiting for the AI economy to include us.
We are building the people who will build it.

500+
Students Served
$750K
Federal Grant Won
$1.7M+
Active Applications
4
Years Running
Summer 2026 · Campaign Live Now

200 students. 6 weeks. $95,000 needed.

Privileged families pay $288/week for summer enrichment.
Our students pay $0 — but only if we hit our goal by May 9, 2026.

$95K
Campaign Goal
200
Students to Serve
—
Days Until May 9
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The resources exist. The access does not — and that gap is not an accident.

DJMP Institute exists to dismantle it.

The Problem We Solve Every Summer

While some students build resumes,
ours are being left behind.

💙 Privileged Student’s Summer
💻Coding bootcamp — $2,000/week
🤖Robotics camp — $1,500/week
📚Academic enrichment program
🎓College prep courses
👥Networking with future peers
$288
Average weekly cost families pay for summer enrichment
— National Summer Learning Association
🟥 Underserved Student’s Summer
🔇No structured programming
🎮Video games and unstructured screen time
😢Academic skills declining daily
🚫No access to technology education
📈Falling further behind peers every week
$0
Cost to DJMP students. Every program. Every lab.
Fully funded through grants & donors.
⅔
of the 9th grade reading gap traces to cumulative summer learning loss
2 mo.
of reading proficiency lost by the average student every summer
9 in 10
teachers spend 3+ weeks re-teaching lessons at the start of every school year
Our Response · Five Learning Labs

We don’t teach about technology.
We build with it.

🤖
Robotics
Engineering mindset, physical computing, and team-based problem solving. Four active US FIRST Robotics teams competing statewide.
4 Active FIRST Teams
💻
Computer Programming
The foundational language of the digital economy. Students build real tools — not classroom exercises. The Stay Safe App was built here.
Real tools. Real deployment.
🧠
Data Science & AI
Pattern recognition, civic intelligence, and agentic AI. Our students don’t just use AI — they architect it. PathwayAI was built on this pillar.
PathwayAI — Live in production
➕
Math Enrichment
The foundation everything else stands on. Rigorous, contextualized, and connected directly to the technology disciplines students are building.
Foundation of the pipeline
🔒
Cybersecurity
The most fundable, most urgent discipline of our era. Fortinet Academic Partner — one of 863 globally. Students graduate into a $400K+ job market.
Fortinet Academic Partner
Where This Began · 2017
“They didn’t ask for a classroom assignment. They mapped every shooting in Chicago and built a safer route home.”
Martin Pieters · STEM Director, Rainbow PUSH Coalition · Saturday Academy 2017

DJMP students mapped every shooting in Chicago from May–June 2017, built a heat map giving students a safer route home, and unveiled the Stay Safe App at Rainbow PUSH’s 46th Annual Convention. Covered by ABC7 and the Chicago Sun-Times. Recognized by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. That is who our students are.

The architects of tomorrow will come from the communities that need them most — because we refused to let them be anything less.

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The Research Trajectory · 2012 → 2026

This work has a decade of proof behind it.

2012
Saturday Academy Founded
Rev. Jesse Jackson asks Martin Pieters to solve the technology pipeline problem for underserved communities.
2017
Stay Safe App
Students build a gun-violence heat map. Covered by ABC7, Sun-Times. Recognized by Cook County Board.
2019
Northwestern & IIT
MRSEC Research Fellow. ISMRM abstract. ML faculty alongside Stanford, UChicago, King’s College London.
2022
$750K Federal Grant
MSEIP Grant — U.S. Dept. of Education. 14 winners nationwide. DJMP Institute incorporated.
2026
PathwayAI Live
Three autonomous agents. Ten federal databases. AWS MLU Fellow. $1.7M+ active grant applications.