A Partnership with SKYPA Non-Profit

Hi, long time no see! It’s been about a month since I wrote my last blog post, but here I am writing another one about a very special update and collaboration that I have been working to secure.

I am working with the SKYPA Foundation, an NGO in India that focuses on spreading AI literacy to schools throughout the region. I have been collaborating with its leader, Siddhi, and she is currently organizing a team that my team and I can lead to help spread and foster AI literacy across both India and the United States.

The coolest part about working with an NGO in a foreign country is realizing the ways we approach education. For one, India’s education system is quite different from the one in the U.S. Along this line, the disparity between people who have access to education and those who do not is rising rapidly in India, but not as much in the U.S. The education disparity, especially in times when digitization and computer science literacy materials are becoming so pivotal, is one of the driving forces that has motivated me to create AI literacy material in collaboration with this NGO.

Essentially, Siddhi and I will be leading a team of interns in making AI literacy material to distribute throughout schools. We still need to finalize what the final product is going to look like, but we are aiming toward a textbook-style version of all the AI literacy material that we are developing.

I view my partnership with this organization as a win-win. For one, Summit Intelligent Systems will be able to make a massive impact in a foreign country, which will increase our presence there. I am thinking about asking Siddhi to get covered by the newspaper and mention our names there so we can gain publicity in India, which would directly translate to even more publicity in America.

Secondly, working on an AI curriculum is something I have always wanted to spread throughout my community, as I see the disparity between people who know about AI and those who do not. The latter far outnumbers the people who understand and fully apply artificial intelligence to their lives.

I am very excited to help pioneer the creation of this curriculum and contribute to a mission that can make AI education more accessible to students around the world.