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Programs & Events

Five years of programs, documented.

Every course, bootcamp, and demo day since 2021, plus what’s running now and what’s next. All of them free.

Upcoming & current

On the calendar

2026Starts Nov 14
Fall cohort
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Coming soon

New Fall Course

Our new fall course starts November 14, 2026. Details are being finalized; the roster will draw from students who complete the free Foundation course, so the best way to prepare is to start it now.

Prepare on the OpenImpact Lab →
Now8 weeks
Open materials
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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. These are the everyday skills of a Forward Deployed Engineer. Slides and problem sets for every week are published openly.

Course materials on GitHub →
Archive · 2021–2026

The archive

Every free program we’ve run since 2021.

Programs since 2021, on a timelineTimeline of programs: Android Demo Day, November to December 2021; A Beginner's Guide to AI, February to June 2023; Gen AI Bootcamp, October to December 2024; The Course of Making AI Tutor for X, December 2024 to March 2025; Vibe Coding Happy Hour pilot, May 2026.20222023202420252026Android Demo Day4-week code labBeginner’s Guide to AI8-week courseGen AI Bootcamp8 weeksAI Tutor for [X]10 weeks · 50 studentsVibe Coding Happy Hour2-hour pilot2021 Programs since 2021, on a timelineTimeline of programs: Android Demo Day, November to December 2021; A Beginner's Guide to AI, February to June 2023; Gen AI Bootcamp, October to December 2024; The Course of Making AI Tutor for X, December 2024 to March 2025; Vibe Coding Happy Hour pilot, May 2026.20222023202420252026Android Demo Day4-week code labBeginner’s Guide to AI8-week courseGen AI Bootcamp8 weeksAI Tutor for [X]10 weeks · 50 studentsVibe Coding Happy Hour2-hour pilot
Every program to scale, 2021 to today. Select one to jump to its recap.
2026May 17
2-hour workshop
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Vibe Coding Happy Hour — Pilot Run

Two hours that took 8–14 year olds from “I’ve never written code” to a game they built themselves with the Gemini CLI. Run in person at a Google office in Mountain View with volunteer engineer coaches, teams of about five, and a show & tell at the end. The full curriculum is open source, and schools can still request a session.

Read the recap →
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. The course was inspired by Harvard’s Teaching CS50 with AI and 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 that took high school students from Teachable Machine to a full Portfolio AI project, with Python, APIs, summarization bots and web research agents along the way. 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
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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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