ReadyAI, a teacher-friendly K12 Artificial Intelligence (AI) education company, announced the launch of AI-in-a-Box, a comprehensive AI education solution for K12 teachers and students. Designed for users of all experience levels and abilities, each box provides everything that teachers need to instruct students on how to apply the key concepts of AI to real-world problems – including the curriculum, hardware, and software. AI-in-a-Box empowers schools and teachers to provide 10 hours of STEAM and project-based AI education. The unique curriculum teaches six key concepts of AI, including visual recognition, facial recognition, object manipulation, landmark-based navigation, speech generation, speech recognition.
In use at 15 community organizations and school systems throughout the U.S., ReadyAI has also been working to bring K12 AI education to students and teachers in China, training teachers to become certified AI instructors, and running student AI competitions.
“AI in K-12 is an excellent opportunity to teach youth early fundamentals of coding, design, and the evolution of robotics,” said James Carter, an early childhood educator at both the Jewish Community Center and the Boys & Girls Club in Pittsburgh, PA. “It also can be a stepping stone for our future engineers and other career paths. What made me recognize and follow the path to becoming one of the first ReadyAI instructors was being able to do something I love in science and technology, as well as the opportunity to teach children how to grasp the future by learning AI ideas and curriculum.”
AI-in-a-Box includes a formal teacher training session, providing the tools and resources for teachers to learn key AI concepts in just four hours. One AI-in-a-Box enables up to 15 students to be engaged at once, and can be used to teach up to 1,000 students in a single school year. AI-in-a-Box includes:
- 3 Cozmo robots by Anki
- 3 Fire 7 Tablets
- 3 Xbox One Controllers
- 3 Laptops with preloaded software
- 3 pre-installed Calypso licenses
- Up to 15 ReadyAI Passports for teachers and students to us as a repository for their AI projects
- 15 ReadyAI Badge Stickers for student AI Passports
- 3 sets of flashcards
- 1 Printed binded lesson plan and 1 Quick Start guide
- 3 vouchers to participate in regional competitions that may lead to the World AI Competition for Youth (WAICY)
“From intelligent assistants to self-driving cars, Artificial Intelligence technologies are reshaping our world,” said David Touretzsky, ReadyAI advisory board member and Research Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. “The general public is both thrilled and terrified. Teaching kids about AI is as important today as teaching them about electricity was in the previous century.”