A hands-on AI & STEM pathway from LEGO robotics in elementary to autonomous vehicles, drones, and soft robotics in high school — with Google Gemini and Claude woven into everyday learning.
AI at SHA is not a concept showcase. Students work with the same AI tools professionals use, and build projects they can drive, fly, play, and publish. This field moves fast — so our school learns alongside our students, putting new tools to work first so they are never behind.
Integrated with the Google Classroom workspace we already run — research, writing feedback, and study support, with school-managed guardrails.
Students learn to think with AI — long-form reading, coding help, and project planning, taught as a skill, not a shortcut.
What AI is good at, where it fails, and how to use it with integrity — taught explicitly from elementary through high school.
Rolling out across 2026–27: faster, more personal homework feedback for teachers, and a 24/7 AI study assistant for students.
Students build and program LEGO robots with block coding — gears, sensors, and challenges that turn curiosity into confidence. AI literacy starts here too: what smart machines are, in words kids understand.
Students step into real hardware and code: first drone flights, first circuits, first game levels — discovering which lab they want to go deep on in high school.
Specialized, project-based courses where students engineer working systems and graduate with a portfolio that sets their college applications apart.
Five specialized courses, taught hands-on in small cohorts in partnership with university-trained engineers.
Build self-driving model cars — sensors, computer vision, and decision logic. Students train their own AI drivers, then put them on the track.
Flight programming, aerial missions, and onboard AI for tracking and navigation — plus the safety discipline real pilots learn.
Design, code, and ship a playable 3D game in C#. Every student finishes with a real title in their portfolio — not just exercises.
Microcontrollers, circuits, and sensors — the layer that makes hardware smart. Students wire, program, and debug devices that work in the real world.
Frontier robotics with flexible materials and bio-inspired design — where engineering meets biology, and where research universities are heading.
The on-ramp: block coding, building challenges, and team competitions that make every elementary student an engineer first.
A working robot, a published game, a trained driving model — lab projects become the portfolio pieces that make a college application stand out. Combined with our UC A–G curriculum and 31 AP courses, students leave with proof of what they can build.
Ask about AI & STEM placement for the 2026–27 school year.
We're offering Scholarships for qualifying High School students and Sibling Discounts — ask us how to apply.
We respond within one business day. Prefer to talk? Call +1 (626) 919-2000 or email admissions@shacademy.org.
