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AI Scholars: An Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Project-Building Program for High Schoolers 2600 (entering 9-12)

AI Scholars: An Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Project-Building Program for High Schoolers

Sessions:

10

Dates:

7/13/2026 to 7/24/2026

Grades:

9, 10, 11, 12

Meeting Times

  • Monday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Wednesday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Thursday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Friday 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Description


What do self-driving cars, Alexa, and iPhone's face recognition technology have in common? They are driven by modern advances in artificial intelligence. Whether you’re interested in law, healthcare, art, or economics, AI is poised to transform every discipline and industry in the future. AI is already all around us today, and by the end of the program, students will understand the underlying concepts and motivations behind technology such as computer vision, neural networks, and natural language processing.

 

In this course, we will explore the foundations of machine learning and explore different applications of machine learning models. In the first half of the course, students learn AI’s core technologies including applications, foundational concepts, and programming tools through live lectures and coding labs. Students will not only learn about different types of machine learning models, but also apply those models to real data sets. In the second half of the course, students will complete an instructor-led group project applying AI to the discipline of their choice (e.g., music, healthcare, astrophysics, finance, etc.), utilizing the programming skills they developed in the first half.

 

Feel free to read more here!

Featured Projects for 2026

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Safe ChatGPT: Build an Authentic Chatbot

Using ChatGPT to build a truthful chatbot and avoid “fake-proofing.”

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Precision Medicine in Colorectal Cancer

Automating the classification of colorectal tissue types to reduce diagnostic variability.

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Moneyball: AI, Sports, and Business

Using AI for sports prediction, inspired by the book and movie Moneyball.

image.jpegPlanet Hunters: Searching for Exoplanets 

Using data collected from NASA’s Kepler telescope to train AI to detect exoplanets.

Fees

  • Class Fee $1,600.00
Total: $1,600.00