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2nd-5th grade
The AI Adventurers program is made for students age 7-11, or any elementary school student with an interest in learning the fundamentals of coding – no programming experience required!
Bright minds come together to explore the foundational logic of artificial intelligence. Through a medley of affirming growth mindset exercises, creative paper-based coding, fun block-based programming, and project-based team hack-a-thons, we cultivate the computational and algorithmic thinking kids need to create confidently. We embed concepts like events, loops, conditionals, variables, and functions within a variety of puzzles, riddles, and activities to make coding fun!
Real World
Coding Fundamentals
Artificial Intelligence
Design
Social-Emotional Learning
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The AI Adventurers program is made for students age 7-11, or any elementary school student with an interest in learning the fundamentals of coding – no programming experience required!
Has your student already completed AI Adventurers 1, and is looking for their next challenge? Check out the AI Adventurers, Level 2: Game Design program!
– Emmy Li, Instructor & Curriculum Developer, Stanford Alum
Program Details
AI Adventurers is a 10 session (1 hour 15 minutes per session) program. Through small-group online classes, students will work with our expert instructors from Stanford and MIT. We keep our student:instructor ratio at or below 5:1.
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Course Syllabus
Day 1: Algorithm Rhythms
Get into an algorithmic groove on your first day by taking an abstract action, breaking it down into steps, and teach your friends new moves! On this day, we learn about how computers think, deconstruct our morning routines, and “program” the teacher to make a sandwich.
Day 2: Talk It Out
On dialogue day, we harness the art of banter to communicate with humans and bots alike. Students will discover how virtual assistants understand speech, practice communicating with each other in creative ways, and code up a conversation on Scratch.
Day 3: If/Then
Our words have power, and we explore conditionals through mapping out decision trees. We will then use our knowledge of cause and effect to program an AI plant to grow when it hears words of encouragement.
Day 4: Choose Your Own Adventure
On Day 4, we explore immersive artscapes that AI can generate. Within these scenarios, we’ll code situations and decision points that lead our adventurers toward promise and away from peril.
Day 5: Team Racing - Need for Speed
Play together through the use of cloud variables on Scratch. Students will customize race tracks and invite their friends to compete in their own virtual stadiums.
Day 6: Obstacle Course
How do self-driving cars sense road signs and pedestrians? In today’s exploration of advanced conditionals, young learners will write functions for an autonomous vehicle as it swerves its way around town.
Day 7: Bug Hunt!
Making mistakes is key to learning which is why Day 7 allows students to embrace failure. In this garden adventure, find bugs and help them fix their buggy features through programming.
Day 8: Hero Origin Stories
Now that we’ve seen lots of different scenes and plots, we get connected with our roots and imagine ourselves as heroes with our own origin stories. Then, we’ll see how AI can help us dream settings and characters to colorize our vision.
Day 9: World Building
What’s a world without music? Today, we craft soundscapes to implement into a class-wide platform game, and each one of us will produce our own AI song!
Day 10: Team Hack-A-Thon
During the team hackathon, each student takes ownership of a portion of the platform game to customize as we tweak the rewards, penalties, sounds, and motion of this interactive adventure.
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