Student Workshops

Series Focus:

“Who will watch the watchmen?” 

While the inevitability of AI is a reality, we can take great solace in knowing that we can and must prepare our students to be discerning and active stewards of technology, not simple recipients of information.

During this interactive and delightfully competitive workshop, groups of students will dive into a variety of AI generators and software programs, showing off their current technology skills while building new ones. Embedded into the learning are metacognitive moments, in which students reflect on their identity and values; we will explore how the identities and values of those who create AI might align or misalign with our own. We address the consequences of cheating, how implicit bias shows up everywhere, especially in technology, and what is means to live fully into our own morals.

Intended Audience:

Students in grades 6-12, college students, educators and leaders  (as observers to debrief the workshop for "train-the-trainer" purposes)

Series Focus:

This workshop will make you want to vote. Period. In this experiential workshop, students will learn the consequences of not voting in real time as they co-create a reality of their own making in a psychologically safe, but productively uncomfortable learning space. 

As we collectively co-create a new “society”, students will bounce between the present moment and history, learning about the historical impact of racist and sexist voting policies, while seeking to prevent in their own “ideal-classroom-reality.” 

Generate a sense of excitement, empowerment, and passion, and create the civic leaders our current world so desperately needs. 

Intended Audience:

Students in grades 3-12, college students, educators and leaders  (as observers to debrief the workshop for "train-the-trainer" purposes)