PersonaLM
Learn complex topics from your favorite charactersWhetstone
Professional certificate tutor for Anthropic’s new CCA ExamSarto
Students building AI solutions for small businessesAEO Grader
Improve Website Discovery in the Agentic EraThinkHigher
Scenario based training for students to become data analystsStrata Mundo
Personalized math games for middle school students
Jasjeev was a content creator who enjoyed making educational videos. During the the fellowship, he kicked around a number of ideas before landing on Persona AI. His main inspiration is ensuring his neurodivergent brother has a better education experience than the current status quo.
Educational content and curriculum is boring. It’s hard to stay engaged and there’s no current personalization. PersonaLM is a platform that enables any student to build custom characters paired with their own content material.
Why it matters
52% of K-12 students report not being engaged at all in their learning. They’re bored and understandably so from generalized curriculum. The answer to kids being bored is to meet them where they are and personalize differnet kind of support.
Main progress over 100 day fellowship
He hit 5M+ organic views in 30 days, grew waitlist to 1,000+, and started his first beta pilot to understand how users create and interact with new characters.
By Xiangan He
With the introduction of requirements for the Anthropic exam at several of his clients, Xiangan saw a new problem. Many developers had to pass the exam to keep their job. With the exam being brand new, there wasn’t a lot of support to prep.
With Whetstone he built an immersive tutoring environment that helps people pass it on their first try. It’s important because there’s a 6 month cool down if they fail.
Alongside Anthropic’s CCA exam, he also piloted it for CISSP Certification for cybersecurity.
Why it matters
72% of people fail certifications like the OSCP on their first try. At the same time certifications are either requirements for an increasing number of careers or they lead to significant increases in wages or salary. New personalized tools enable higher probabilities for success.
Main progress over 100 day fellowship
He ran 2x paid pilots for the Anthropic CCA tutor. One with a major developer agency and another with a consulting firm. He also ran one pilot with BU students with the CISSP tutor.
By Ryan Leong
Ryan took a leave of absence from college because it did not offer a way to keep up with the latest in AI. As he talked to other students, he also saw a big gap between what different businesses were asking for and what students wanted to help build.
His idea is to connect businesses with aspiring builders, who are currently students, to ship AI native solutions. From customer service support agents on Whatsapp to agentic workflows to automate back of office work, Ryan helped connect real needs from businesses to students who wanting to ship real solutions.
Why it matters
For the first time, college graduates have a higher unemployment rate than non-grads. It’s higher than the national average.
This trend is often blamed on AI but when polled business owners and hiring managers regularly cite a lack of college education lining up with real world requirements of the job.
Getting students that experience is critical to bridging that gap, and Sarto pays them to do it.
Main progress over 100 day fellowship
He ran one paid pilot himself with an automation for real estate business, and had talked to several local businesses and worked with five students to help them build solutions for those businesses.
By Feodor
Everyone who runs a business on the internet knows SEO. Add specific keywords that map to your business on your website and get discovered by search enginers like Google.
Now on the internet there’s AEO, Answer Engine Optimization, where results get summarized by LLM bots reading websites. From web search in ChatGPT or Claude and Google’s new answer box, AEO is important for businesses to rank for new internet searches.
Feodor saw that his country, Russia, was falling behind in both adoption of AI but also in best practices. So he set out to build a tool to bring insight to businesses and tap into the budding market there.
Why it matters
In the age of AI, people are having conversations with AI agents and getting specific recommendations. AEO is key to making sure a business or app shows up in those convos.
Main progress over 100 day fellowship
He piloted an early version of a teaching platform with his team, Jay and Harsh. For their AEO build, they talked with dozens of businesses for feedback on painpoints.
By Joseph Ching, Lillian Gong + Morgan Hough
There’s a gap between what students are learning in the college classroom and what employers want to hire for.
And there’s a large disconnect between hundreds of one click applications and the filtering systems trying to make sense of resumes and answers.
So the team brought together their research experience to come up with a simulation based tool that enables students to practice tasks in a virtual, team based environment.
Why it matters
Async communication is just as important today as doing the work. Interview processes are also linear and one way paths, with often no feedback. Creating a platform where students can practice and get feedback on both their process and their communication enables more context to evaluate connection in the hiring process.
Main progress over 100 day fellowship
They piloted with two student consulting clubs, and they validated feedback on the scenarios from industry experts.
Everyone knows someone who “hates math” or doesn’t see the point. For Barbara, that was her brother. Despite not being supported in school, he’s a successful car mechanic now running his own garage.
Barbara, a mother and owner of an Acton Academy, knows this problem all too well and set out to build an answer to it.
Her idea: build a system to gauge a learners understanding of mathematics and then use games to grow both their knowledge and their love of math.
Why it matters
Math isn’t just useful for crunching numbers. It’s likely that many more people would likely find passion for the field if they were making video games rather than learning by repitition on a black and white sheet of paper (or screen.)
Main progress over 100 day fellowship
Barbara ran a pilot at her Acton Academy to get feedback from middle school students. She even ran a workshop to help them design their own games.
By the end of the fellowship, she grew a pipeline of 26 interested schools and owners to explore a co-operative model.
Sasha built out interactive curriculum management systems to connect higher ed professors with their students in large 1,000+ person lectures.
Mike and Scott built early on project based learning guides with Barbara.
Xiangan built a middle school math tutor platform in first week with real paying customers and demos.
Jasjeev worked with Vedansh on an online math tutor for paid pilot.
Follow along for more builds.
Worldwide Studios is an education nonprofit on a mission to help anyone build anything.
We host 100 day fellowships, like this AI for Education fellowship, for people to explore the latest tools through ambitious projects.
Next round of fellowships are live here.
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