- Grades 5–8
- Beginner
- Free
- 12 weeks · peer pods
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Grades 5–8: block coding, computational thinking, safe AI basics, and your first projects in a peer pod.
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Grades 5–8: block coding, computational thinking, safe AI basics, and your first projects in a peer pod.
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Grades 5–8: block coding, computational thinking, safe AI basics, and your first projects in a peer pod.
Grades 9–12: Python, web, AI tools, team projects, and peer-coach training to mentor younger students.
Coding from first programs through Python & DSA — club projects plus a full interview-prep playlist.
A 6-week journey from AI basics to building with Cursor and Claude Code.
Project-based learning where students build real-world applications.
Structured group mentorship with industry professionals.
Prepare for tech careers with portfolio building, interviews, and internships.
Research bootcamps
From foundations to presenting original work — supervised mentors, experiments, and Demo Day.
8 weeks + 12 weeks mentor research
Research fundamentals for school students
An eight-week introduction to how research works in AI — framing questions, reading papers at your level, running small experiments, and preparing a poster for Demo Day or a science fair.
6 weeks + 8 weeks research
LLMs, evaluation, and responsible GenAI projects
Six weeks on how large language models work, how to evaluate outputs, and how to design a small GenAI research project — followed by an eight-week guided build with weekly mentor check-ins.
4 months · weekly labs
Train, evaluate, and document ML experiments
A four-month program covering data preparation, model training, evaluation metrics, and writing up results — modeled on how university labs run applied ML projects, adapted for motivated teens and college students.
Browse approved projects from Build Lab and AI Literacy cohorts.
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