Context

In Mexico alone, there are around 5.5 million upper-secondary students. Approximately 49% belong to socio-economic levels D+, D and E (AMAI, 2022), representing about 2.7 million highly vulnerable students. Many face shared devices, unstable internet, limited learning resources, and must balance school with work, increasing disengagement and dropout. At the same time, educational content online is scattered and hard to match to a student’s level, wasting time and lowering effectiveness. Furthermore, students lack safe, structured ways to connect locally, leading to weak collaboration, low social capital, and reduced opportunities. This highlights the need for a secure hyper-local environment that centralizes open resources, enables AI-driven personalized learning routes, and supports community, academic, and entrepreneurial collaboration.

Who Benefits?

PathWise is designed for secondary education and early undergraduate students (12–24 years old) , especially those in public schools from low-to medium-income households. These students often face:

Little access to study resources, shared devices, and unstable internet

Low academic support at home and almost no guidance to choose a career path Isolation

Absence of safe, verified spaces to connect with peers in their own city or region to build real extracurricular experience and strengthen their CVs

Limited access to local opportunities (volunteering, entrepreneurship projects, internships, research groups, and civic initiatives) that remain hidden or inaccessible without a structured local network

Limited digital skills, including how to use AI-tools in a safe and useful way

PathWise is built specifically to support this group, the students who are most often left out by traditional educational systems.

Impact

PathWise accelerates upward social mobility by providing underserved students with personalized roadmaps for university admission, scholarships, and academic milestones—areas often blocked by fragmented information. It strengthens professional development through a verified hyper-local network where students collaborate on entrepreneurship, volunteering, and civic projects, generating verifiable experience and portfolio assets. PathWise multiplies study efficiency while enabling same-city collaboration from day one. By centralizing open educational resources and generating personalized multimodal content, the platform boosts early collaboration. Through its AI-driven analytics and big data insights, it detects structural deficiencies in regional study programs. PathWise also measures its impact via anonymized collaboration with NGOs and government policymakers, enabling more inclusive, data-driven educational strategies.

Team work

Our team has previously worked and won in several social entrepreneurship competitions such as Enactus and high-tier hackathons like HackMTY giving us real on-site experience to escalate PathWise.

Adolfo Navarrete Nájera is our UX designer, defining the user experience and structure.

Itzelene Valladares Brito is our front-end engineer and UI designer, building the interface in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Karla Yvette Alemán Pastrana is our data engineer, data analyst and finance lead, handling data structure and financial planning.

Maximilien Tragraz Quintana is our Project manager, Team Lead, AI-prompt and back-end engineer, developing the Python infrastructure and API integrations.

Ana Patricia Figueroa Nuche is our researcher, providing the insights that guide our decisions.

Together, we integrate AI, UX/UI, data, research, and finance to new Society 5.0 approach to tackle inequity in education.