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OSE Fellowship – Build the Future $1

Skip College. Build the Future.

Start with our 12-week Builder Crash Course. Help us launch a 4-year Fellowship that transforms builders into regenerative civilization leaders.

Apply for the $100K Fellowship

Phase 1: The Builder Crash Course

The program begins with a 2-week Builder Crash Course where you and your team build a complete, high-performance home — from foundation to finish. This immersive experience gives you hands-on exposure to 20 core trades and tools. This event is open to the public as a 2-week, paid immersion course — a rare, hands-on opportunity unlike anything else in the world.

Following the crash course, you'll apply your new skills in two additional 6-week house builds. In just 14 weeks, you’ll have built 3 full homes — gaining real-world experience in team construction, site leadership, and build process management.

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  • Install and commission a complete photovoltaic (PV) system as part of the home build
  • Build 2 additional homes across two 6-week build cycles
  • Support 6 participants in building their own 900 sf homes to take home — proving that everyday people can build a $40K home under our guidance, instead of buying one for $400K
  • Start on the factory floor and work up to $50/hr or more in as little as 1 year through our work-study program as you lead construction crews
  • Learn hands-on design using FreeCAD, modular systems, and OSE Design Guides
  • Develop learning agility, moral intelligence, and cross-disciplinary problem-solving

    • Phase 2: The 4-Year Journey

    After the Builder Crash Course, you enter a 4-year journey of deep transformation. Each year builds your capacity to lead, design, and replicate regenerative infrastructure while grounded in moral intelligence and collaborative literacy.

    • Year 1: Master core construction skills and modular swarm design-build techniques. Focus on soft skills like learning agility, problem-solving, and moral intelligence to lead humane technology efforts.
    • Year 2: Learn to design open source machines that serve civilization-scale infrastructure. Study systems, institutions, and infrastructures that enable scalable deployment.
    • Year 3: Step into leadership by running real-world swarm builds and build workshops for low-income housing clients as community service. Balance work-study to accelerate your growth.
    • Year 4: Join a capstone project to co-lead the one-month build of a new OSE Campus with 240 people — a real-world showcase of collaborative abundance and regenerative design at scale.

    Each year also includes an immersion experience — travel-based action research or community service aimed at moving the world closer to an open source, zero marginal cost society.

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    “Just seeing such a huge project being undertaken in such a short amount of time is pretty inspiring.”

    — Peter M., Aquaponic Greenhouse Workshop Participant
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    “I teach manufacturing technology and I am sharing this with my students.”

    — D. Bryant, Educator

    “OSE has rekindled my enthusiasm for engineering by making it practical and relevant to community needs. I now think differently about what’s possible.”

    — R. Shaw, Engineer
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    “We built a house! It was pretty much a Dream Team of participants with amazing abilities, complementarities, positive and cooperative attitudes.”

    — M. Chiuli, 5-Day CEB Microhouse Build Participant, Belize