Alex kotran And Ehrik Aldana Aiedu educates students mainly folks that are disproportionately impacted with the aid of ai structures with the conceptual expertise and skills they need to thrive as people, creators, purchasers, and citizens.
The company quietly launched with pilots in ohio and florida this spring. And has due to Alex kotran And Ehrik Aldana the fact scaled to reach nearly 3,000 students across 6 states.
The ai training venture is funded through groups inclusive of google, intel, akamai, american tower, macy’s, postmates, github, the j.M. Smucker co.
And booz allen hamilton; our advisory board consists of senior leaders from carnegie mellon (ai4k12), stanford, disney, nike, microsoft, including the u.S. Air force.
Aiedu become a semifinalist inside the college of pennsylvania’s training marketing strategy opposition. And turned into selected to enroll in the distinguished fastforward tech nonprofit accelerator’s class of 2020.
Alex kotran, co-founder & president
Alex is the co-founder and president from the ai education project, a 501(c)(three) tech nonprofit. This is working to make ai literacy curriculum without difficulty on hand to college students. Throughout the USA specifically the ones disproportionately impacted via ai and automation.
The ai training mission launched inside the spring of 2020 within the midst of the covid-19 pandemic with far off getting to know packages in ohio and florida.
To date, the ai schooling mission has partnered with 30+ colleges and education companions throughout five states to provide attractive, digital curricula to over 2,500 students (most people of whom are from identify i colleges or low profits) – all in the course of the covid pandemic.
Their paintings has acquired monetary assist from each outside and inside of the tech quarter with the aid of fortune 500 groups and different generation leaders.
This past yr, the ai schooling undertaking also participated inside the prestigious fast forward accelerator for tech nonprofits.
Alex is a serial entrepreneur, who additionally helped to launch the future society, a 501(c)(three) suppose tank in the beginning founded on the harvard kennedy faculty of government.
The future society is recognized being one of the leading ai assume tanks inside the world, and works. Among the oecd, the un, world bank, ecu commission, council of Europe. And different intergovernmental corporations to increase engagement with stakeholders within the development of ai policy, standards, and law.
In addition to his paintings co-leading the ai schooling task, alex is an guide to north base media. The undertaking capital company based by marcus brauchli, the previous executive editor of the washington post; and h5, the pinnacle ai-powered legal discovery issuer.
Ora d. Tanner, co-founder & leader mastering officer
Ora oversees instructional plan and development of the ai education project’s curricula. Which includes ai-associated lesson plans, initiatives, sports, and education materials for study room implementation by using instructors.
She conducts pedagogical and design studies, instructor expert improvement, educator network building, vetting and curation of ai assets. And is presently strategizing implementation of ai curriculum in the southeast united states of america.
Ora has 12 years school room revel in as a technological know-how educator and is wrapping up her phd in educational generation and educational dimension on the university of south florida.
She lately completed a fellowship at the aspen institute tech coverage hub in san francisco.
Ehrik Aldana, co-founder & chief working officer
Ehrik manages and coordinates the ai training venture’s programmatic paintings, focusing ordinarily on k-12. In his position.
He liaises immediately with education partners on the ground, surveys school rooms, and engages with the ai schooling project’s broader community of advisors to collate comments and guide each content and method.
Ehrik previously worked as a studies fellow at the center for innovation at uc hastings university of law. He graduated with a b.A. In political technology from yale.