aiEDU’s leadership team spent four days in San Diego last week with 5,000+ educators, investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs at the 2022 ASU+GSV Summit.

Most of the aiEDU team was on the ground in Austin, TX for the 2022 SXSW EDU conference, one of the biggest education events of the year. In addition to some long-overdue in-person team bonding, we hosted two Leadership Roundtables on AI Education and Workforce Readiness.

The AI Education Project is proud to announce that we are the recipients of a $200,000 grant from The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation as part of a push to drive digital equity across America.

Last month, The AIEDU was invited to sit on an advisory group that is working on the state of Ohio’s strategy to revise its Computer Science Learning Standards. As part of that workstream, we submitted a public comment articulating our view about why it’s so important to include fundamental AI literacy as part of these revised standards. That full comment, along with the signatories from our network, is below.

Today, Seed AI, a new nonprofit advocating for more artificial intelligence (AI) resources for communities nationwide, released the results of a survey they conducted in partnership with Morning Consult investigating the public’s perceptions of AI. In short, there is broad, bipartisan, pan-generational support for investing in AI education.

Building on its commitment to serve the underserved, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council (The Corridor Council) is partnering with The AI Education Project to solidify the fast-growing nonprofit’s presence in Florida and bridge the gap preventing disadvantaged communities from basic access to AI knowledge

On March 4, business executives, policymakers, educators, and nonprofit leaders from across Ohio and the U.S. gathered virtually for The AI Education Project’s Ohio Leadership Forum on AI Education and Workforce Transformation.

Last week, The AI Education Project (AIEDU) hosted a virtual gathering of more than 100 leaders from government, K12 education, academia, and civil society for a conversation about how we can bring AI education to K12 schools.

The J.M. Smucker Co. today announced a multi-year gift to The AI Education Project to help us expand our ‘Intro to AI’ program across Ohio and support schools with high quality remote learning during COVID-19.