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 free, all online.
Upcoming & current
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2026Fall cohort
Dates TBA
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.
Prepare on the OpenImpact Lab →Now8 weeks
Open materials
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 · 2021–2026
The archive
Proof of work: every free program we've delivered as a 501(c)(3).
2026May 17
2-hour workshop
2-hour workshop
Pilot runVibe Coding
Happy Hour
Happy Hour
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 the program is still open to schools.
Read the recap →2024–25Dec 7 – Mar 1
10 weeks
10 weeks
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.
Read about the course →2024Oct 21
8-week bootcamp
8-week bootcamp
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.
Read the recap →2023Feb 3 – Jun 21
8-week course
8-week course
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.
Read the recap →2021Dec 3
Demo day
Demo day
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.
Read the recap →