Your talent.
AI as your tool.
Something real built.
AI & Me isn't a class about artificial intelligence. It's a program that puts your God-given talent first — then teaches you to use AI to build something real with it. The tool follows the talent. Not the other way around.
"Let's learn what AI is and how it works."
"You're an Artistic Creator. Here's how to use AI to design, create, and launch something real."
Most schools are teaching kids about AI.
That's not enough.
Knowing that AI exists, understanding roughly how it works, learning to be "responsible" with it — none of that closes the readiness gap. The students who are prepared for an AI-present world are the ones who have already used it to build something. The gap between knowing and building is exactly where AI & Me lives.
AI literacy as a subject — taught from the outside in.
AI as a builder's tool — taught from the talent out.
Every talent type uses AI
differently. On purpose.
When a student knows they're an Innovative Explorer, they approach AI as a fellow experimenter. When they know they're an Artistic Creator, they use it as a creative amplifier. AI & Me is built around the idea that the tool should serve the talent — not the other way around. Here are five examples of how that plays out in practice.
Uses AI to rapidly prototype ideas, run experiments, and generate "how it works" explainer content for the projects they're building.
Uses AI to generate design concepts, draft brand copy, and create visual mood boards that guide a real product or content project.
Uses AI to research causes, draft pitch scripts, and plan logistics for a campaign or club launch they're running with a real team.
Uses AI to analyze a neighborhood problem, generate solution options, and build a simple process document or service toolkit they can actually deploy.
Uses AI to find community resources, draft outreach messages, and create care campaign materials for a social venture aimed at a specific population.
Two semesters in.
What we've learned.
The Ark Academy is a full-time, five-day school in Orlando built on the Finland educational model — individualized learning, natural curiosity, practical application over standardized testing. It was the first school to fully deploy AI & Me as an integrated strand alongside the core Dream Chaser journey. Here's how the deployment unfolded.
"Tailoring education to each child, ensuring they succeed and achieve their goals at their own pace — that's what Dream Chaser Kids is doing."
Finland's education model produces a 93% graduation rate and the smallest performance gap in the world — at 30% lower per-student cost than the US. The Ark Academy was built on those principles. AI & Me is the program that operationalizes them in an AI-present world: individualized, talent-anchored, project-driven.
Source: OECD PISA rankings · Finland comparative data
Built for three
contexts.
Your talent first.
AI as the tool.
Something real built.
Complete the scoping form and we'll design an AI & Me pathway for your school, organization, or church — matched to your student population, format, and goals.