Portals to Explore

In this section, you will find summaries of upcoming ALA programs which will be offered for high school students. Teachers may sign up for curriculum that they can modify for their own class projects.

Fall 2022: Dragons Lair. This course is learning and building an AI visual recognition program that will meet a need in your school or a business in your community. You can earn certificates by completing our online course. This is a student-directed and project-based program that will engage you towards new insights and discoveries about the uses of AI. Student teams meet in their own private metaverse. More to come.

AirDrone Rescue 2026

Building a customized drone for the San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team

A dark robotic figure from the game "Atactic"

A robot with a shotgun from the game "Atactic"

Atactic: O2O Spring 2027

Humans have only explored only a fraction of Earth's oceans, and yet, on Ganymede, a moon that orbits Jupiter, lies a water world larger than anything on Earth. To explore that world we need to know more about this one. How will A.I. aid in exploring a foreign moon? What type of robotic controls will be needed? How do we prepare for the unknown world with possible unknown dangers? Oceans 2 Oceans is a program exploring A.I., Oceanography, space flight, robotics, programming and more.

An illustration of a man hiding in a dragon cave

Dragons Lair

This online project is designed to help students learn more about AI visual recognition. Students learn about programmer biases, how to collect data, how to train a machine to learn, and finally how to make connections into the real world by addressing a real world problem. More to come.

An illustration of a monster from "The Unknown" game

"The Unknown"'s lead character, illustrated in dark colours

Project: Icarus

Drones have become very popular, but human controlling them have had serious fatal accidents. What if, A.I. controlled the drones for tasks like delivery and filming. In this program, students learn about A.I., programming, drones, and flight. This is a project with future implications and promises.

Martian Quest's lead character, illustrated in bright colours

AiDrone Rescue

Last year 90 people were rescued from the San Bernardino Mountains. 13 died.

From the time a person is lost or injured the clock starts clicking down. Time is the enemy in finding a lost or injured person. Can technology help?

We think so. A team of high school students will work with the San Dimas Mountain Rescue Team and the Dept of Forestry to create a rescue drone.

What should it do? What should it carry? Will adding AI help? What problems will a drone find in the dangerous and rugged mountain canyons? These are the questions the high school team will research and find to build their drone.

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