AI & Machine Learning for Teens

Artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction. It recommends your next video, finishes your sentences, beats world champions at games, and even helps doctors read medical scans. But behind the hype, what actually is AI, and how does a machine “learn” anything at all? This advanced course pulls back the curtain and gives you a real, honest understanding of how modern AI works, from the data it trains on to the neural networks that power tools like ChatGPT.

This is a hands-on course, not a lecture. You’ll train your own AI model in your browser using Google Teachable Machine, watch it succeed and fail, and discover bias and overfitting with your own eyes. You’ll build a gentle intuition for how models adjust themselves to get better, peek inside neural networks, and even read and run real Python machine-learning code. No PhD required, just curiosity.

We finish with the part that matters most: using AI responsibly. You’ll learn how bias sneaks into systems, why deepfakes and misinformation are a real problem, how to protect your privacy, and how to be honest about when you use AI. Then you’ll design your own responsible AI project idea, the same way real engineers plan products that help people.

By the end, you won’t just use AI, you’ll understand it well enough to question it, build with it, and imagine a future where you help shape it. Let’s get started.

What you’ll learn

• Explain clearly how AI, machine learning, and deep learning differ and relate
• Train your own image, sound, and pose classifier with Google Teachable Machine
• Identify bias, overfitting, and bad data in machine learning systems
• Describe how neural networks and large language models actually work
• Read and run simple Python code that trains and uses a machine learning model
• Evaluate AI claims and separate real capabilities from hype and misinformation
• Spot deepfakes and protect your personal data when using AI tools
• Design your own responsible, ethical AI project from idea to plan