You’re matched to a product and a mentor by what lights you up. Every track ends the same way: something real, shipped, and yours.
Music-driven AI supporting children with autism — built with Seattle Pacific University’s music department.
An AI tutor that sharpens a student’s reasoning instead of replacing it.
Have a spark of your own? Shape it into a real, buildable for-good product with your mentor.
More products rotate in each term.
Whatever you pick, you’ll learn AI from the fundamentals up and understand every line — and the driven ones publish it, like our students did in JMIR and at MIT.
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Meet your mentor, pick your product, and scope a real contribution you can genuinely own — not busywork.
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Learn the AI underneath — enough to understand every line, not just prompt it. That’s the whole point.
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Draft with AI, interrogate every output, and build a real feature the right way — with the “why” intact.
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Deploy real, working software — not a demo that dies on your laptop. Something you can point to.
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Rebuild it from memory and defend every decision. The driven go all the way to a published paper.
Working, deployable software with a repo and a demo you can show a college or an employer.
You can defend every decision and recreate the core from memory — without AI. Earned, not outsourced.
A real venue (like JMIR or MIT URTC), never a pay-to-publish shortcut. The ceiling, for those who reach.
A shipped contribution for everyone. A published paper for the driven.
We’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Tuition funds the mission, and a limited number of need-based scholarships are available each term.
A real spike for college applications — a shipped product and, for some, a publication. The authentic kind admissions officers actually reward, not a manufactured “passion project.”
Portfolio, real skills, and speed. Graduate able to build and explain production AI — not just prompt it. The rare, hireable combination.
You’ll work with people who ship real software for a living — not rotating grad students practicing on you. The person guiding your project has actually built the products, earned the patents, and mentored the papers.
Meet the team01
A short form — no account needed, ~2 minutes.
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A real person reads every application, usually within days.
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Fit, your idea, the right track, cost or scholarships. No obligation.
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To a product and a mentor — and you start building.
Parents in the loop · a safe place to build
Tell us a bit about you and the idea you’re curious about. There’s no account to create and no obligation — a mentor reads every application.