MEET teaches computer science, entrepreneurship, and leadership to excelling high school students (ages 15–17) over three years. It is highly selective; with a <8% acceptance rate. The program comprises three consecutive summers with volunteer instructors from MIT and weekly program sessions in the two intervening years at the MEET hubs in
Jerusalem and
Nazareth, taught by MEET alumni. Run entirely in English, the program provides MEET's 300 high school students with the skills, values, and network to become "agents of change" in the region. Students learn intensive computer sicence, entrepreneurship, and engage in a dialogue curriculum called "Deeper Understanding." Graduates of the program stay connected through the Alumni Program and continue developing social and business projects at the MEET Venture Lab in Jerusalem, in partnership with
Google. The students are excelling youth from the West Bank, Jerusalem (East and West), and the Nazareth area. Students are evenly distributed across gender and nationality and gain a deeper understanding of each other and the conflict through working on pragmatic projects with real-world impact. The entire program is conducted in English. Neither students nor instructors pay to participate. ==History==