04 — The coaches
Taught by people who do this for a living
Engineers and researchers from Google and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, volunteering their evenings.
Live online courses taught by engineers from Google and academia, for students in the US, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. No tuition, no gatekeeping — just a browser and curiosity.
Not a lecture series. Each level ends with something real: a certificate, a working AI application, a pitch in front of investors.
Self-paced AI and CS fundamentals on the OpenImpact Lab, our free online learning platform. Finishing the Foundation course is what qualifies you for the bootcamp — and it's open right now.
Weekly live sessions with coaches from Google and academia. You aren't studying AI systems — you're shipping one, from the ground up, with two rounds of professional rehearsal before demo day.
The live-fire exercise. Form a founding team of three to five, build an MVP from your own idea or the "Googler Wishlist," and pitch it directly to angel investors.
Six of the AI systems shipped by teams in "The Course of Making AI Tutor for [X]" — real repos, real demos. Drag to browse.
Menu recommendation with RAG + OCR + ChromaDB — upload a menu photo, get waiter-style suggestions.
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 ↗What to pull, how to build your character — confusion ends here.
GitHub ↗A two-hour workshop bringing AI-assisted game building to elementary schools. We supply the coaches, curriculum, and materials — your school just brings the students. Free, like everything we run.
Eight weeks building autonomous LLM systems — pipelines that read a problem, write code, test it, and refine on failure. Every week's slides and problem sets are published openly.
Details land soon. The important part: the roster is drawn from students who complete the free Foundation course, so the smartest move is to start it now.
Express interest in joining the next cohort.
Finish the Foundation course at the OpenImpact Lab.
The final bootcamp roster is announced.
Engineers and researchers from Google and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, volunteering their evenings.
"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 post-graduate students — and career changers. No prior coding experience is needed to start; 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 — that's step one of the whole journey, and it's open right now.
Online, on the cloud. Past cohorts spanned the US, Taiwan, and Hong Kong with sessions scheduled across time zones.
Level one is self-paced. The bootcamp runs one live session a week (about 90 minutes) plus team project work — a few hours weekly for most students.
Free, self-paced, and the first step toward the Fall 2026 roster.
