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- Can AI Laugh? Duration: 30 minutes Grade Levels: K–2 Can AI and humans be used for the same thing? Is AI capable of empathy and emotion? This activity supports young learners to develop basic AI literacy by helping them… Read More
- Community Voices: Evaluating AI Risks and Rewards Duration: 75 minutes Grade Levels: 6-12 Students will take on the roles of community stakeholders and determine whether or not they would vote for or against adopting AI solutions to community issues. Then they will be… Read More
- The AI Sustainability Challenge Duration: 90 minutes Grade Levels: 6–12 Consider the environmental challenges posed by the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Develop sustainable approaches to reduce these negative impacts. Read More
- AI Adventures: The ’Zine Duration: 15-20 minutes Grade Levels: 3-12 AI literacy magazine for kids with puzzles, games, and articles. Winner of the 32nd Annual Communicator Awards’ Award of Excellence. Read More
- Making the Call on AI Referees Duration: 45 minutes Grade Levels: 3-8 In this lesson, students will explore how AI models are trained by testing a simulated AI referee on judging penalty kicks in soccer. They will work in teams to run… Read More
- Reading the Rules Duration: 30 minutes Grade Levels: 4–12 Use these fun icebreakers to understand the complex details of the criteria and constraints for The Tech Challenge. Read More
- Data-Driven Energy Exploration Duration: 90 minutes Grade Levels: 4th-12th grade Explore how to analyze data by building and testing one of three self-powered vehicles. Contribute to a class data set, then iterate on the design based on the data. Read More
- AI to the Rescue: Finding Lost Pets Duration: 45 minutes Grade Levels: K-5 How would artificial intelligence find a lost pet? In this version of the classic “Guess Who” game, students examine the process that AI uses to make predictions. Read More
- Animal Identification with AI Duration: 50 minutes Grade Levels: 4-12 Explore how conservationists use artificial intelligence as a tool for animal identification. Read More
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Artificial Intelligence
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Get with the (computer) program

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Big thinkers, unite!

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Engineering with empathy
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