AI PROGRAM FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
Discover AI by building it.
A six-day introduction to artificial intelligence for curious middle schoolers. Explore how AI sees, talks, and makes decisions, then team up with Stanford mentors to build and present your own AI project.
What students explore
Hands-on activities make big ideas click. Every concept turns into something students build and test themselves.
Interactive activities to introduce new technical concepts (i.e. chatbots and recommender systems).
Discussions on the social impact of AI to develop students’ critical thinking skills.
Guided coding explorations in which students apply AI to real-world problems in Python.
AI project work as students complete a multi-day, interdisciplinary project.
Featured middle school projects for 2027
Apply your new understanding of AI to build an interdisciplinary project, guided by a Stanford mentor. Sample projects for 2027 include the following.
Problem to Prototype: Build a Personalized AI Assistant
Design and build a personalized AI assistant to create a focused, high-impact solution to a real-world problem.
AI Chatbots for Education
Build your own AI-powered study assistant using OpenAI tools to create safe, effective learning tools.
AI + Disaster Relief
Leverage machine learning and fundamental techniques in natural language processing to help first responders allocate resources in crisis situations.
Recommender Systems
Build an AI-powered movie recommender system using IMDb's movie database and deploy your own custom web application.
Program Overview
Discover AI and its applications, explore Silicon Valley, then build and present your own app.
Field trips built into the week
Step out of the classroom and see AI at work, then bring what you learn back to your project.
Stanford University
Tour campus with AI PhD candidates and hear what research at a leading AI university looks like.
AI Startup Visit
Tour campus with AI PhD candidates and hear what research at a leading AI university looks like.
Meet Inspirit AI Faculty Members
Our team consists of alumni and graduate students from Stanford University who have done cutting-edge research, and have founded several AI startups that have been acquired by large tech corporations.
Dr. Kuan-Chuen Wu
Stanford Master’s · Harvard Bachelor’s
Dr. Akshay Jagadeesh
Stanford PhD · UC Berkeley Bachelor's
Dr. Brianna Chrisman
Stanford PhD in Biomedical Engineering
