Expert instruction
We help you understand AI from both the fundamentals and application level of why it works.
Veritas AI
Veritas AI provides ambitious high school and middle school students who are passionate about AI with a suitable environment to explore their interests. VAI programs include collaborative learning, project development, and 1-on-1 mentorship. These programs are designed and run by Harvard graduate students and alumni.
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Why learn AI on high school?
Build foundational skills
The earlier you can build foundational skills in AI, the deeper you'll be able to create projects that matter for the world.
Stand out for college
When you build an independent project using AI, you showcase your abilities, interests, and potential to impact the real world.
Solve real world problems
AI is being used to solve some of the biggest challenges facing humanity today - in fields from healthcare to climate change. With your project, you have a chance to contribute to the larger solutions.
Why Veritas AI?
Learning AI is hard. Here’s how we help:
Direct mentorship
We work with you closely to make sure you don't get stuck and you can build your own AI project.
College preparation
College is right around the corner. We help you think about how to use your project for college applications through workshops and seminars.
AI community
You connect with a community of like-minded peers who are passionate about AI.
What you can create with Veritas AI
Create a responsive video game experience
Use convolutional neural networks to classify medical images
Use convolutional neural networks to predict carbon dioxide emissions
Use computer vision to predict the outcomes in major sports leagues
Predict stock prices using deep learning
Create an algorithm to detect propaganda in speeches
Create a voice assistant to make education more personalized and increase accessibility
Use natural language processing to create a mental health chatbot to detect depression/anxiety
Types of programs offered
- Structure = Group classes with 5:1 student-to-mentor ratio
- Duration = 25 hours over 10 weeks (weekends) OR 25 hours over 2 weeks (weekdays on summer break)
- Student profile = Grades 9-12
- Pre-requisites = none
- Output = A group project with 3-4 other students
- Structure = 1-1 mentoring with an AI expert and 1-1 mentoring with a publication expert
- Duration = 15, 1-1 sessions with a mentor and 2 sessions with a publication expert
- Student profile = Grades 9-12
- Pre-requisites = Basic understanding of python /
completion of AI Scholars - Output = A novel AI model in a field of your interest, personalized mentor evaluation, and publication submission to a high school or college-level research journal OR showcase through presentation/competition submissions
- Structure = 1-1 mentoring with an AI expert
- Duration = 30, 1-1 sessions with a mentor
- Student profile = Grades 9-12
- Pre-requisites = Basic understanding of python /
completion of AI Scholars - Output = Independent research paper in the field of AI, submission to college-level research journal or CS/Science competition (e.g., ISEF Regeneron), and personalized mentor evaluation and 4 1-1 sessions with a publication expert
The Veritas AI Deep Dives are 10-week courses curated for ambitious students interested in the intersection of AI and other fields. You will engage with AI experts, lectures, programming notebooks, and a hands-on project based on the applications of AI in other fields like medicine and finance.
- Deep Dive (AI + Medicine) — Through this course, you will get the opportunity to dive deeper into how AI is transforming healthcare and medicine. You'll work on projects to use AI & ML models to diagnose diseases, sharpen medical scans, and explain their outcomes to aid doctors and patients. The course is designed to help you understand the applications of AI in genomics, hospital admissions, drug discovery, neuroscience, and more!
- Deep Dive (AI + Finance) — Through this course, you will get the opportunity to dive deeper into how AI is transforming financial markets. You'll work on projects to use AI & ML models to predict future financial patterns using past data, forecasting stock prices, and more. The course is designed to help you understand the applications of predictive modeling in finance, banking, wealth and asset management, and fraud detection.
Veritas AI by the numbers
4,300+
Applications
1,000+
Participants
180+
Mentors
50+
Countries
$280,000+
In financial aid