- AI + STEM EXPANDED LEARNING | GRADES 3–8
Turn Learning Time into Innovation Time
Kids In Technology delivers hands-on AI + STEM experiences that help students build, test, question, create, and solve real-world problems. Designed for afterschool, summer, intersession, and expanded-learning settings, our programs combine AI literacy, coding, engineering, design, digital citizenship, and project-based learning.
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EXPANDED LEARNING
Grades 3-8
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FRAMEWORK
9 Core Pillars
- LEARNING BY DOING
More Than Another Hour in
Front of A Screen
Expanded learning should feel different from the regular school day. KNT gives students opportunities to move, build, experiment, collaborate, make choices, test ideas, and create with technology.
Students use AI as one tool within a broader STEM experience. They learn when to use technology, when to question it, how to verify information, and how human creativity, judgment, and problem-solving remain essential.
Think
Question information, analyze problems, and make decisions.
Build
Use STEM materials, coding tools, electronics, and engineering concepts.
Test
Experiment, identify what does not work, and improve solutions.
Create
Use technology to design, communicate, and produce original work.
Innovate
Apply AI + STEM thinking to problems that matter to students and communities.
- Program Designed for
Built For Elementary
& Middle School Expanded Learning
The national AI + STEM Expanded Learning program is designed primarily for students in Grades 3–8 and can be adapted for different schedules, school calendars, staffing models, and program goals.
- Bring the program
Three Ways to Bring the Program to Your Students
AI + STEM Expanded Learning Lab
A hands-on, project-based AI + STEM experience where students explore artificial intelligence, coding, engineering, data, digital citizenship, design, and real-world problem-solving.
Programs can be configured as 8-, 10-, or 12-week experiences. Students progress from understanding technology to questioning it, building with it, and creating original solutions.
BEST FOR
- Afterschool
- Expanded learning
- School-year enrichment
- Multi-week clubs
Available as 8-, 10-, or 12-week programs | Grades 3–8
AI + STEM Summer & Intersession Lab
Shorter, high-energy AI + STEM experiences designed for non-school days and intensive learning periods. Students work through collaborative design challenges, coding activities, engineering projects, AI investigations, and innovation challenges that can culminate in a student showcase.
Programs can be customized for a multi-day camp, one- or two-week intensive, or a longer summer learning experience.
BEST FOR
- Summer learning
- Winter break
- Spring break
- Intersession
- Camps
- Intensive enrichment
Flexible schedules | Hands-on projects | Culminating student showcase
Curriculum + Kits + Staff Training
KNT provides the complete program system so partners can build internal capacity and scale implementation without creating an AI + STEM curriculum from scratch.
Partners receive structured curriculum, hands-on materials and kits, facilitator resources, professional development, implementation support, and assessment tools. District or organization staff deliver the program with KNT support.
BEST FOR
- Districts and organizations that want to use their own teachers
- Afterschool staff
- Program facilitators
Our recommended scalable implementation model
- What Students Experience
From Technology Consumers to Confident Creators
Activities are developmentally appropriate, collaborative, and designed around active learning rather than lecture.
- LEARNING Journey
A Progression from
Exploration To Innovation
- HIGH-QUALITY EXPANDED LEARNING
Hands-On. Student-Centered. Built For Meaningful Learning.
KNT programs are designed around the qualities that make expanded-learning experiences meaningful for students.
- WHAT PARTNERS RECEIVE
A Complete
Implementation System
KNT can provide the curriculum, materials, training, and implementation infrastructure needed to launch a high-quality AI + STEM expanded-learning experience.
- IMPLEMENTATION MODELS
Flexible
Implementation Models
Choose the implementation model that best fits your staffing, schedule, sites, and program goals.
Staff-Facilitated Implementation
Kids In Technology provides the curriculum, hands-on materials, professional development, and implementation support. Your teachers, afterschool staff, or program facilitators deliver the experience.
BEST FOR
- Expanded-learning programs
- Multi-site districts
- Afterschool programs
- Summer programs
- Organizations building internal capacity
- Programs seeking scalable implementation
KNT-Facilitated Implementation
For selected programs and locations, trained Kids In Technology facilitators can provide direct program delivery for selected sites, pilots, summer programs, intersession, and short-term implementations.
BEST FOR
- Selected pilots
- Schools needing staffing support
- Short-term programs
- Summer and intersession
- Special projects
Customized Partnership
Kids In Technology can co-design a solution based on your students, schedule, funding, number of sites, desired outcomes, and implementation needs.
BEST FOR
- Multi-site districts
- Workforce organizations
- Municipalities
- Foundations
- Corporate partners
- Community partnerships
- OUTCOMES & MEASUREMENT
Showing More Than Participation
KNT helps partners document what students learn, create, and demonstrate during the program.
- AI literacy growth
- Ability to question and verify AI-generated information
- Prompting and communication skills
- STEM problem-solving and engineering design
- Collaboration and project completion
- Responsible technology use
- Student confidence and reflection
- Capstone projects and showcase presentations
Assessment tools may include pre/post measures, weekly reflections, facilitator observations, project rubrics, student work products, and culminating showcase evidence.
- WHY KIDS N TECHNOLOGY
More Than Two Decades of
Learning By Doing
Kids In Technology was established in 2002 with a simple belief: students understand technology best when they can explore it, question it, build with it, and use it to solve real problems.
Technology has changed dramatically since then. Our hands-on philosophy has not. Today, KNT brings that same approach to artificial intelligence, coding, engineering, digital citizenship, design, innovation, and future workforce skills.
Established
2002
Award-winning nonprofit education organization
20+ years of school and community partnerships
Memphis, Tennessee | Los Angeles, California
- How Students Learn
Hands-On Learning
That Builds Real Skills
AI STEM Literacy™ uses project-based learning, collaboration, communication, and real-world problem-solving to help students actively engage with technology and innovation.
Students do more than learn about technology — they actively create, collaborate, communicate, problem-solve, and apply real-world thinking skills through hands-on learning experiences.
Students learn by doing — creating real projects that connect to their world.
Teamwork, peer learning, and group problem-solving are woven throughout.
Projects address authentic problems students can see and experience.
Presenting, discussing, and articulating ideas builds confident communicators.
Students explore new ideas, experiment, and innovate across subjects.
Every activity includes lessons on ethics, safety, and responsible technology.
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METHOD
Project-Based
- Designed for Schools
Built for Modern Schools
and Learning Environments
Built from years of hands-on school and community implementation experience, AI STEM Literacy™ is designed to support real classrooms, real students, and real educational environments.
- Future-Ready Education
Preparing Students for the Future Starts Now
AI STEM Literacy™ helps students build the confidence, communication skills, critical-thinking abilities, and responsible technology habits needed for the future of education, work, and innovation.
- Students develop confidence and independent thinking through hands-on learning.
- Communication and collaboration skills open pathways to future opportunities.
- Ethical AI use and digital citizenship prepare students for leadership and innovation.
- Career exposure helps students see real pathways to their futures.
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OUTCOME
Future-Ready Graduates
Bring Hands-On AI + STEM Learning to Your Students
Whether you are planning an eight-week enrichment club, a 12-week expanded-learning lab, a summer program, an intersession experience, or a multi-site implementation, Kids In Technology can help build a program around your students, schedule, staff, and goals.