​​​​​​​​​​AIYA Programming Is Experiential!​

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AIYA offers five experiential programs that enable students to build basic literacy, explore AI tools & resources, apply AI to real-world problems, and showcase individual and group projects. Together, these programs operate as safe, structured spaces designed to advance conversation and collaboration between students and schools around the world.

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Our ultimate aim is to build a vibrant, self-sustaining student-led community that supports the safe exploration of best-practices around cutting-edge uses of AI in learning. Our spirit is fundamentally hands-on and experiential, prioritizing learning by doing.​

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1. AIYA Autonomy​​​​​

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Solve​​​ hands-on puzzles and challenges that enable you to gain perspectives essential to maintain cognitive agency, critical autonomy, and genuine authorship while consuming and using AI.​​​​

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Requirements

• Participate in AIYA Literacy Week

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2. AIYA Forge​​​

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Explore prompt engineering and the use of AI tools with AIYA Forge. Write code, build apps, construct agents and architect workflows in a collaborative, year-long format. AIYA Forge is a structured space for creative students interested in building things with AI.​​

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Requirements

• Participate in one group building project per semester

• Compete in the AIYA Global Hackathon

• Showcase projects in the AIYA Impact Symposium

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3. AIYA Finance​​​

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Apply AI and agentic tools to the world of finance. Conduct research, enhance analysis, build models, and explore ways to accelerate decision making and execution.

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Requirements

• Participate in one group AI in finance project per semester

• Compete in the AIYA Global Hackathon

• Showcase projects in the AIYA Impact Symposium

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4. AIYA Polis​

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Assess AI’s impact on media and democracy. Discuss the problems and opportunities AI poses for our political and information environment, and propose policy and technology solutions to address them. 

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Requirements

• Participate in one Polis Project per year

• Showcase project findings in the AIYA Impact Symposium

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5. AIYA Impact​

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Showcase innovative AIYA and independent AI projects across every discipline and stage of development. Share how you used AI to produce concrete solutions, outcomes and results.

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Requirements

• Submit individual and group projects

• Showcase project findings in the AIYA Impact Symposium

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