Day of AI in collaboration with Amazon Future Engineer

This spring, thousands of students around the world are participating in Day of AI: a curriculum of lessons and hands-on activities designed to teach kids of all ages and backgrounds the basics and responsible use of artificial intelligence, designed by researchers at MIT. On May 18, MIT RAISE is hosting a global Day of AI celebration featuring a flagship local event at the Dearborn STEM Academy in Roxbury in collaboration with Amazon Future Engineer.

Following remarks by Cynthia Breazeal, Dean for Digital Learning at MIT Open Learning, head of the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Lab, and Director of MIT RAISE, Rohit Prasad (‘08), Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa at Amazon, and Victor Reinoso (‘97), Global Director of Amazon Future Engineer, students will participate in the hands-on App Inventor activity as part of Day of AI’s Alexa lesson.

About MIT RAISE
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) is an initiative from MIT to provide free AI literacy resources, activities, and opportunities to people of all ages around the world. A collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, the Schwarzman College of Computing, and MIT Open Learning, RAISE’s research and impact mission is to advance equity in learning, education and computational action to rethink and innovate how to holistically and equitably prepare diverse K-12 students, an inclusive workforce, and lifelong learners to be successful, responsible, and engaged in an increasingly AI-powered society.