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Empowering Students to Meet the Generational Challenge of AI
We Are a Global Student Network Advancing Learning & Problem-Solving with AI in Our Schools
The AI Youth Alliance (AIYA) is a network of student chapters around the world dedicated to developing and promoting hands-on opportunities to learn, lead and innovate with AI in our academic communities.
In collaboration with faculty and administrative advisors, we seek to deliver experiential programming that empowers students to exert agency in learning and develop the AI fluency, foundational techniques, and critical literacy that are essential for career success and personal well-being in an AI future.
Meeting the Generational Challenge of AI
AI represents an unprecedented challenge to our generation's well-being and future success. On the one hand, it is an incredibly powerful tool that promises to expand our horizons, amplify our capacity to pose and answer questions, and operate as a force-multiplier to solve problems in the real world. At the same time, AI threatens to harm academic development and cognitive well-being in immediate and profound ways.
In order to thrive in the Age of AI, we must equip ourselves with the foundational AI literacy and technical fluency necessary to secure our futures.
A recent MIT study on the cognitive consequences of AI usage demonstrated that offloading necessary cognitive effort can lead directly to a measurable atrophy in critical thinking, analytical capacity, genuine authorship, and true subject mastery.
Our Experiential Approach to AI Learning
AIYA takes a fundamentally experiential approach to AI learning. We provide students with structured opportunities to engage in hands-on activities and collaborative exercises to promote critical AI literacy and essential technical fluency.
Join AIYA today to participate in programs that help you build literacy, explore tools & resources, apply AI to real-world problems, and showcase individual and group projects:
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AIYA Autonomy: Develop basic AI literacy by taking part in an entertaining collection of exercises and challenges in a workshop format.
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AIYA Forge: Write code, build apps, construct agents and implement workflows in a collaborative, year-long program.
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AIYA Finance: Apply AI models and agentic tools to conduct research, enhance analysis, build models and execute transactions in competitive and collaborative formats.
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AIYA Polis: Research, analyze and discuss the impact of AI on our political and information environment; propose policy and technology solutions to address them.
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AIYA Impact: Showcase exciting AI projects from across disciplines and share how you used AI to produce concrete outcomes and results.
AIYA's Tentpole Events
Our tentpole events anchor our each of our experiential programs throughout the year or "season". Each season kicks off with AIYA Literacy Week in the fall, followed by the AIYA Global Hackathon in the spring, and culminating with the AIYA Impact Symposium at the end of the year.
AIYA Literacy Week
Engage in AI challenges & problem sets that allow participants to realize AI’s vast potential and surprising limitations through direct, hands-on experiences.
AIYA Global Hackathon
Compete and collaborate with students around the world in a first-of-its-kind international hackathon dedicated to building apps and models using AI.
AIYA Impact Symposium
Submit your creative, research, and impact projects that use AI or center AI as their subject. Showcase your projects online and in the annual AIYA Impact Symposium.
Join the Movement
to Empower the
AI Generation!
Sign up to bring direct, hands-on AI programming to your school:
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Build basic AI literacy
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Explore AI tools & resources
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Master AI skills and techniques through collaboration and competition
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Solve real-world problems
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Showcase your AI projects & findings
Sign up for AIYA programming!
Connect to the AIYA Network!
Become an AIYA Founder!