AI Startup Challenge
What would your teen invent to make school life easier? In this two-day hackathon, students work in startup teams to design an AI product, test a prototype with classmates and pitch their idea. They’ll learn to explain who their product helps, where AI adds value and what they changed after someone tried it.
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What your child will do
Find a problem worth solving
Teams choose someone to design for and ask about a specific frustration. For example, how does a new student find a club they’ll enjoy? The answer helps the team decide what their product should do.
Build it and let someone try it
Students sketch or link a few screens to show how their idea would work. For a club finder, a tester might enter two interests and see a sample AI recommendation. The team watches where the tester hesitates and asks what they expected.
Pitch what you learned
Teams use the feedback to refine their idea and present it to the group. They demonstrate the feature, explain one change they made and identify a limit, such as what happens when a club listing is out of date.
What they’ll make
Each team creates a paper or clickable prototype of one feature, keeps notes from user testing and delivers a short pitch. By the end, your teen can walk you through the design and point to a decision their team made because of a tester’s feedback.