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Program Description

The Future Builders Academy (“FBA”) is a 4-year immersion program for Civilization Builders combining hands-on building, collaborative design, and open-source product development of housing, infrastructures and architectures, and the Global Village Construction Set. The program blends experiential work, structured learning, and collaborative literacy training to prepare Participants for real-world execution of complex, multi-disciplinary projects, such as saving the world. Each year consists of 10 months of active participation and 2 months of vacation, which may be used for work, study, or both.

The goal of the program is three-fold:

1. Learning how to design and build just about anything — including homes, machines, infrastructures and architectures, tools, consumer goods, agricultural operations, manufacturing systems, and social systems such as education, banking, legal frameworks, governance models, and social security infrastructures.
2. Learning how to learn and solve problems relevant to pressing world issues.
3. Learning how to be a human — namely, an admired leader and constructive global citizen.

The overarching aim is to cultivate an abundance mindset, which unlocks unlimited possibility across the three areas above.

Practical Outcomes

Graduates of the FBA are eligible for partnership with OSE as Civilization Builders, with starting salaries of $72,000/year in construction roles or $95,000/year as construction managers. Apprentices also have the option to continue their studies for an additional 4 years in an advanced immersion track comparable to graduate study. This extended track focuses on transitioning from Civilization Builder to Civilization Architect, enabling participants to design new architectures of civilization based on extensive build experience.

4-year – 8-year – 12-year Programs

OSE offers structured advancement opportunities:

• The initial 4-year program produces Civilization Builders.
• The 8-year track develops Civilization Architects.
• The 12-year track prepares Open Source Ecologists, capable of designing and innovating in systems-level design (institutions of civilization).

OSE intends to partner, hire, or otherwise collaborate with Civilization Architect graduates within its ecosystem to deploy about a million OSE campuses worldwide, for Distributed Market Substitution of the current economy with open source.

That is only the beginning. At this point, OSE will be offering the final post-Master’s study (Ph.D.-level equivalent) in the design/build of innovative institutions to evolve and upgrade existing ones. For individuals who meet requirements of multiple key intelligences — including soft skills, design/build ability, enterprise, and other domains — OSE may consider candidates for advanced placement directly into the Master’s or Ph.D.-level programs.