Students gain a foundational understanding of AI by building projects and developing a portfolio, rather than just using AI tools, with a strong emphasis on responsible AI practices.
The AI Explorers Lab is a live online program designed for middle schoolers in grades 6-8 to delve into the world of Artificial Intelligence. Across 8 hands-on sessions, students learn the fundamental principles of how AI works, moving beyond simply using tools to understanding their underlying mechanisms. The curriculum emphasizes practical application, where participants write smart prompts, train their own AI models, and build functional chatbots. A key focus is on responsible AI usage, addressing topics like bias, misinformation, privacy, and academic integrity. Students will create a portfolio of projects, including an "AI in my life" discovery poster, a personal prompt engineering toolkit, an AI-assisted story, a fact-check report on AI output, an AI-for-good poster campaign, a trained image-classification model, a working chatbot, and an AI-powered quiz or game. The program culminates in a showcase presentation where students present their work and receive a certificate of completion.
Each 90-minute live session is structured with a warm-up, concept explanation, live instructor demo, hands-on building time, testing and improvement, and a sharing segment where students present their work to the cohort.
This program is ideal for middle schoolers in grades 6-8 who are curious about AI and want to learn how it works, build their own AI projects, and understand responsible AI usage, with no prior coding experience required.
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