Georgia State U and Operation HOPE Program Fosters AI Literacy in Underserved Youth

A pilot program co-led by Operation HOPE and Georgia State University is working to construct technical, entrepreneurial, and financial-literacy expertise in Atlanta-area youth to assist them thrive within the AI-powered workforce. The AI Literacy Pipeline to Prosperity Project (AILP³) kicked off earlier this month with a week-long summer time camp for rising ninth–eleventh graders hosted at Georgia State’s J. Mack Robinson Faculty of Enterprise.

Contributors engaged in immersive, hands-on actions comparable to AI literacy bootcamps, design-thinking sprints, mentorship from native tech leaders, and alternatives to develop AI-driven prototypes, in response to a information announcement. College students have been taught by a multidisciplinary group of Georgia State college targeted on innovation, finance, know-how, schooling, and entrepreneurship, in addition to business specialists from Atlanta’s ecosystem of AI firms.

“With AILP³ and our inaugural summer time camp, we’re planting the seeds of innovation and financial mobility the place they’re wanted most,” commented Brian Betts, President and CFO of Operation HOPE, in a press release. “Georgia State has been an distinctive lead companion in designing and executing the pilot, and we’re equally grateful to the unique coalition of thought leaders, from the AI Ethics Council to Atlanta’s HBCUs, who helped form this imaginative and prescient from the start.”

“It was thrilling to collaborate with our GSU college and business companions to form each ingredient of this expertise, from program curriculum to scholar engagement, and to create such a transformative alternative for these highschool college students to develop and deepen their AI literacy expertise,” mentioned Dr. Jen Bailey, Robinson’s affiliate dean for undergraduate packages, who led the curriculum design and program supply for the AILP³ camp. “Their curiosity, creativity, and drive made this inaugural cohort a robust reminder of what is doable after we make investments early within the subsequent era of innovators.”

The AILP³ initiative is constant to develop a variety of programming, together with Ok-12 immersion packages, AI-focused scholarships, apprenticeships and household assist for employees displaced by automation, and plans to make use of the Atlanta pilot as a template that may be replicated nationally. It’s supported by Georgia State College’s scholar success mannequin and Operation HOPE’s “HOPE Inside” platform, which has generated greater than $4.2 billion in financial exercise for underserved communities throughout the US. For extra data, go to the AILP³ site.