Bringing equitable AI education to students in Northeast Ohio and across the nation

Empower With AI is a student-led initiative. We teach AI in classrooms and after-school programs, and we build free tools for people who need them.

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What we teach

Two free courses, in person in Northeast Ohio and online everywhere else.

100+students reached
10+in-person sessions

Future is Tech

Python, how AI works, building a chatbot and a machine learning capstone.

AI Awareness

Using AI ethically, what it means for society and staying safer online.

In the classroom and in the community

Jonathan Parran points to a slide on AI current events while students at desks watch.

A student presents an AI lesson on a wall screen to a room of seated students.

A student in a suit talks with a woman at a conference table.

Students at tables watch a lesson on a wall screen.

Jonathan Parran teaches an AI Literacy 101 lesson on how AI is trained, recorded with his webcam beside the slides.

Free lessons and flashcards

The AI Literacy 101 Video Course is 40 short video lessons, from what AI is to how to judge what it tells you. No coding needed, and you earn a certificate when you finish.

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Unhoused AI

Our free finder for shelter, food, clothing, healthcare and more in the US. How it works

Partners

We work with coalitions on Unhoused AI and have taught in schools and after-school programs. See our partners