I am thinking of creating a startup, entirely focused on building up the engineering muscle of early career professionals, students and interns by offering them a real world opportunity to build software in a real world production environment with real world customers.
Here is where I am: I am starting conversations with universities to introduce the program, reaching out to my social circle, especially parents of kids in this situation to ask for seed money and trying to figure out which city would be best placed for such an endeavor. Couple of caveats: Ideally, I want to build this with at least one physical location with in person experience. This is to give the new hires full exposure to building things with guidance from senior engineers in close proximity. Finally, the seed is not guaranteed to provide a return on investment, at least initially.
Here is what you can do: If you are in this situation, reach out to me. If you have a program at your university that might be interested in collaborating with me on this, please either have them reach out to me or share the contact info with me via email. Finally, if you have been blessed and fortunate and successful enough to help, either by financially contributing or by contributing your time helping next generation of software engineers, please reach out. Depending on the size of interest, I am happy to setup a 501c to allow tax deduction of your charitable contribution.