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

Inspirit AI offers an interdisciplinary, project-based artificial intelligence education taught by Stanford, MIT, and Ivy League alumni and graduate students

What do self-driving cars, Alexa, iPhone's face recognition technology, and ChatGPT 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, natural language processing, and neural networks.

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.

Featured Projects

DNA Detectives for COVID-19: Using genomic data, create machine learning models to trace the origins of COVID-19 strains to understand its spread!

Finding Exoplanets: Train models with data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope to detect and characterize exoplanets, potentially helping us discover alien life!

Pneumonia Detection: Experiment with computer vision techniques to train an AI model to detect pneumonia from X-ray images of lungs! Explore how radiologists can collaborate with AI to improve patient outcomes.