Live online courses taught by engineers from Google and academia, for students in the US, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. No coding experience needed, just a browser.
Each level ends with something you can show for it: a certificate, a working AI application, and a pitch to investors.
Self-paced AI and CS fundamentals on the OpenImpact Lab, our free online learning platform. Finishing the Foundation course qualifies you for the bootcamp, and you can start it today.
Weekly live sessions with coaches from Google and academia. Your team builds a working AI system from scratch and rehearses the presentation twice before demo day.
Form a founding team of three to five, build an MVP from your own idea or from the “Googler Wishlist,” and pitch it to angel investors.
Six AI systems built by student teams in “The Course of Making AI Tutor for [X].” Each card links to the team’s project. Drag to browse.
Upload a photo of a menu and it suggests dishes the way a waiter would. Built with RAG, OCR and ChromaDB.
GitHub ↗Walks you through any recipe step by step, with help when you’re stuck.
GitHub ↗Collects preferences, curates attractions with live data, and writes the itinerary.
Live demo ↗Advice on what to pull and how to build your character in gacha games.
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Open to hosts
A two-hour workshop that gets 8–14 year olds building their first game with an AI coding agent. The pilot ran at a Google office in May 2026. The curriculum is open source, and schools can still request a free session.
Current course
Eight weeks building autonomous LLM systems: pipelines that read a problem, write code, test it, and fix it when it fails. Slides and problem sets for every week are online.
Starts Nov 14, 2026
More details are coming soon. The roster is drawn from students who complete the free Foundation course, so it’s worth starting now.
The new fall course begins. Finishing the free Foundation course at the OpenImpact Lab is the best way to be ready.
Volunteers from Google and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, plus the teaching assistants who keep sessions and systems running.
“To all the students, whether you were on stage presenting or just listening in: we wish, from the bottom of our hearts, that you find a career you are passionate about.”
High school, college and graduate students, and career changers. You don’t need any coding experience to start, and everything runs in the browser.
Nothing. Every program since 2021 has been free, funded by donations and corporate matching. We’re a 501(c)(3) public charity.
Start the Foundation course on the OpenImpact Lab. It’s the first step for every program, and you can start it today.
Courses are online, and past cohorts spanned the US, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with sessions scheduled across time zones. Vibe Coding Happy Hour workshops run in person.
Level one is self-paced. The bootcamp runs one live session a week (about 90 minutes) plus team project work. Most students spend a few hours a week.
The Foundation course is free and self-paced, and it’s the first step toward a spot in the fall course.
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