Momentum AI Capstone Program
Mentor and Curriculum Executve Team Member, Momentum AI, 2023
Program Description
Momentum AI’s free, two-week capstone program brought high school students—especially those from under-resourced, underrepresented, and first-generation backgrounds—to MIT’s campus for an immersive, project-based deep dive into artificial intelligence (AI). Mentors taught students coding skills and AI fundamentals such that students could design and execute projects involving machine learning. Students had the opportunity to hear from MIT professors and researchers from industry leaders like Google during guest lectures. In addition to learning about AI, students also learned about the college admissions process. Social activities were interspersed between classroom sessions to encourage a collaborative learning environement in which students were not afraid to ask each other nor the mentors questions.
Roles
- Mentor for the 2022 and 2023 summer capstone programs
- Curriculum executive team member: Revised curriculum for 2023 program based on 2022 summer teaching experience