SummerAIRES · FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
AI is the tool. What you create is the point.
AIRES guides high school students as they investigate real questions and develop research and innovation projects with expert mentors. Through summer residential programs, seasonal bootcamps and year-round 1:1 mentorship, students build the knowledge and AI skills their work requires.
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Program selection
Explore AIRES programs.
Summer 2027, LA Winter or year-round mentorship. Find the format that fits your goals.
Summer
SummerSummer at Columbia
- Session I:
- June 6–18, 2027 (2 wks)
- Session II:
- June 27–July 9, 2027 (2 wks)
- Session III:
- June 27–July 16, 2027 (3 wks)
SummerSummer at UC Berkeley
- Session I:
- July 18–August 6, 2027 (3 wks)
- Session II:
- July 25–August 6, 2027 (2 wks)
Academic Focuses
Explore your field.
Expand with AI.
Explore questions across engineering, health, business and society. Discover where AI can make a difference.
01Robotics & Intelligent Machines
Investigate how machines sense, move and interact with people. Connect engineering, computer science and design, then explore where AI can improve perception, control or responses in physical systems.
02Biomedicine & Health
Investigate questions about living systems, disease and healthcare. Connect biology, statistics, engineering and human behavior, then explore where AI can reveal patterns, support investigation or inform new approaches to care.
03Business & Society
Investigate how people, organizations and communities make decisions. Connect economics, psychology, policy and ethics, then explore where AI can deepen understanding, inform decisions or support useful products and services.
Learning Pathways to Tangible Outcomes
Research or innovation?
Choose what you want to investigate further, test or develop.
01
Research
Turn a focused question into a defensible conclusion supported by data and evidence.
- Question
- Research Design
- Data and Evidence
- Analysis
- Paper and Presentation
Best for
Students who enjoy theoretical exploration, asking focused questions, analyzing data, and building a clear, evidence-based argument through rigorous writing.
Top Papers
Selected top papers receive guided submission and publication support.
Mentor recommendation letters are provided at the individual mentor's discretion.
Presentation Matters
Explain your research question, methods, findings and limits. Practice answering questions with feedback from academic mentors and judges.
02
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Turn a real user problem into a tested solution and a credible pitch.
- User Problem
- Discovery
- Prototype
- User Testing
- Pitch
Best for
Students who enjoy hands-on building, experimentation, and innovation, and who want to solve real-world problems, test ideas, and develop a credible pitch.
Seed Funding
Selected top projects receive up to $5,000 in seed funding for continued development.
Funding is selective and subject to program terms.
Presentation Matters
Pitch your idea, demonstrate your prototype and explain your decisions. Practice answering questions with feedback from academic mentors and judges.
Student Works
See what AIRES students create.
See the questions students investigated and the research, prototypes and presentations they created.
Research
Rare-Disease Monitoring
Students explored how AI-driven digital biomarkers can support remote monitoring for spinal muscular atrophy by researching human behavior, AI overreliance, statistical governance, and rare-disease care.
UC Berkeley 2026
Research
Adolescent Trust in Digital Information
A quasi-experimental study investigating how warnings about AI-generated content influence adolescents’ judgments of digital images, revealing a tradeoff between heightened skepticism and increased misclassification of authentic content.
Yale 2026
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Startup Legal Guidance
An AI-guided legal assistant that explains startup law in plain English, identifies required documents, and helps first-time founders understand basic legal requirements.
Yale 2026
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Biodiversity Education
An interactive bird-survival game that turns ecology and conservation into consequential choices, using migration journeys and protection challenges to make biodiversity learning experiential.
UC Berkeley 2026
Mentors
Meet your mentors.
Guidance from professors, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs. Participation varies by program and year.
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Dr. James G.
Health systems researcher and AI strategy educator
- Senior Advisor, Stanford Medicine
- Visiting Professor, University of Michigan (2027)
Education MIT · Princeton · Harvard · Northwestern Kellogg · Carnegie Mellon
BusinessEntrepreneurshipBiomedicine & Health
Applies AI strategy and health-systems thinking to help students build evidence-based approaches to complex health and organizational problems.
Dr. Trevor G.
Historian and educator working across AI and the humanities
- Professor, San Francisco State University
- Former Visiting Professor in Computer Science, Stanford University
- Co-head, HistoryGenie
Education UC Berkeley · University of London
Business & SocietyHistory
Challenges students to apply AI critically to historical and social evidence, building rigorous research arguments grounded in disciplined analysis.
Dr. Yi W.
Life science entrepreneur, investor, and public health researcher
- Life Sciences & Health Technology Mentor, Yale Ventures
- Angel Investor, NuFund Venture Group
Education Duke University · Brown University · University of Michigan
BusinessEntrepreneurshipLife Science
Guides students applying quantitative and computational methods to life-science and public-health research, from hypothesis design through data analysis.
Voices
What AIRES students and parents say
The mentors walked me through building a product from scratch and how different AI platforms work. They made sure I understood how to use each tool—not just what to click. I genuinely learned so much and felt supported throughout.
The seminars were extremely interactive and helpful. I got to hear from and collaborate with my peers, and CoLab gave us plenty of focused work time.
I would like to sincerely thank you for your care, guidance, support, and encouragement throughout the past three weeks. I truly enjoyed participating in the AIRES 2026 Program and learned a great deal from the experience.
I really enjoyed the AIRES program. I made so many new connections and friends, and I learned so much.
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FAQ
AIRES summer program questions, answered.
AI is the tool. What you create is the point.
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