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Elementary schools
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Happy Hour
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Coding Happy Hour for Elementary Schools

A two-hour workshop that introduces elementary school students to AI-assisted game development — small teams, one coach per 3–5 students, and a playtest showcase at the end. We bring the coaches, curriculum, and materials; your school brings the students. Completely free.

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2026Fall cohort
Dates TBA
Coming soonAnnouncing 2026
Coming soon

New Fall Course — 2026

Our newest course launches in fall 2026. Details are being finalized; the roster will draw from students who complete the free Foundation course. Key gates: applications close March 7, certification by March 14, selection announced March 22.

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Now8 weeks
Open materials
Current courseMLE-STAR
Current course

MLE-STAR Bootcamp — Building Autonomous LLM Systems

An 8-week curriculum where students build end-to-end pipelines that read a problem, generate code, run it against automated benchmarks, and refine on failure — the working skill set of a Forward Deployed Engineer. Slides and problem sets for every week are published openly.

Course materials on GitHub
Archive · 2021–2025

The archive

Proof of work: every free program we've delivered as a 501(c)(3).

2024–25Dec 7 – Mar 1
10 weeks
Course of Making AI Tutor for X poster

The Course of Making AI Tutor for [X]

Fifty university students from Taiwan, HK & the US built their own AI Tutors in teams of five, each coached by a Googler — inspired by Harvard's Teaching CS50 with AI, built on Google Cloud with the Gemini API.

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2024Oct 21
8-week bootcamp
Gen AI bootcamp presentation day

Gen AI & The Future of SW Development Bootcamp

Eight weeks taking high school students from Teachable Machine to a full Portfolio AI project — Python, APIs, summarization bots, and web research agents. Organized by CSEB and VC.in.Taiwan.

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2023Feb 3 – Jun 21
8-week course
2023 online classes highlights

A Beginner's Guide to AI & Android Development

Sixteen students with zero CS background built an AI-powered Android pose classifier, then learned cloud-based Android system development on Google Cloud.

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2021Dec 3
Demo day
Android System Development on the Cloud poster

Android System Development on Cloud — Demo Day

The conclusion of our very first code lab: four weeks on the basics of cloud computing and Android, capped with students presenting their debugging journeys live.

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