Charlotte Dungan, Chief Learning Officer of the Mark Cuban Foundation, led a 90-minute workshop on agentic AI for teacher leaders from across North Carolina on June 22 at North Carolina Central University’s newly opened Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research…
Mark Cuban Foundation Educator Urges Schools to Coach, Not Police, Student AI Use
At a recent Texas conference, a Mark Cuban Foundation educator told teachers that schools should coach students on how to use artificial intelligence rather than try to catch them using it. Terri Eichholz, who leads AI Bootcamp initiatives for high school…
Mark Cuban Foundation Joins Young Futures Block Party in Austin
Charlotte Dungan and Terri Eichholz from the Mark Cuban Foundation spent two days in Austin with peers building tools, programs, and opportunities to empower the next generation of teens at the inaugural Young Futures Block Party. The May 13 and 14…
UNC Students Build Helpful AI Tools for Teachers
Graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discovered that testing their teacher-evaluation tools with real K-12 classroom teachers led to sharper feedback and faster progress. At the same time, teams who began with non-teacher adults as testers…
First AI Bootcamp Pilot Lands at Boys and Girls Clubs
The Mark Cuban Foundation launched its first Boys and Girls Clubs AI Bootcamp pilot in April at the Wake County NC location, bringing hands-on artificial intelligence education to local high school students through a new community-based model. The three-day program, sponsored…
Indiana Sophomore Launches App That Employs His Classmates
Most of the Hustlers on Rahul Renaaud’s app are kids he goes to school with. They offer services like lawn mowing, snow removal, and tutoring. They’re listed right there on the platform he built, alongside their skills, their portfolios, and their…
At NC 4-H’s Game of Drones, Rural Students Code, Fly, and Compete
On April 11 in Greensboro, NC 4-H’s Game of Drones Competition brought together 15 rural teams of middle and high school students for timed drone and robotics missions. Hosted by NC A&T, Cooperative Extension, and NC 4-H, the free event gave…
Mark Cuban Foundation Students Bring AI Research to National Educator Series
The DataPaths webinar series usually features professionals. Epidemiologists, oceanographers, journalists. People who have spent careers applying data science in the field. On April 1, three students from the Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamp took their place at the table. Shrinithi Shaurya,…
Dallas-Area High Schoolers Tackle Real-World Problems at North Texas Hackathon
RICHARDSON, TX – On a Saturday in late March, over a hundred high school students gathered on the University of Texas at Dallas computer science campus carrying laptops, half-formed ideas, and fifteen hours to turn them into action. The North Texas…
AI Is Already Here. Are We Preparing Students for It?
WASHINGTON — On March 11, the Mark Cuban Foundation joined national leaders in Washington, D.C. for the AI + Education Symposium, a gathering of government officials, educators, and industry voices confronting one of the most urgent questions of our time. How…