Build With AI.Not Just Learn About It.
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.
Real Tools. Real Projects. Real Results.
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.
Google Gemini for Education ↗
Integrated with the Google Classroom workspace we already run — research, writing feedback, and study support, with school-managed guardrails.
Claude as a Learning Partner ↗
Students learn to think with AI — long-form reading, coding help, and project planning, taught as a skill, not a shortcut.
AI Literacy, Every Grade ▶
What AI is good at, where it fails, and how to use it with integrity — taught explicitly from elementary through high school.
AI-Assisted Feedback ▶
Rolling out across 2026–27: faster, more personal homework feedback for teachers, and a 24/7 AI study assistant for students.
From First Brick to First Prototype
Elementary — LEGO Robotics
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.
Middle School — Enter the Labs
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.
High School — Five Signature Labs
Specialized, project-based courses where students engineer working systems and graduate with a portfolio that sets their college applications apart.
Choose Your Lab
Five specialized courses, taught hands-on in small cohorts in partnership with university-trained engineers.
Autonomous Vehicles
Build self-driving model cars — sensors, computer vision, and decision logic. Students train their own AI drivers, then put them on the track.
Drones & AI Hardware
Flight programming, aerial missions, and onboard AI for tracking and navigation — plus the safety discipline real pilots learn.
Unity Game Development
Design, code, and ship a playable 3D game in C#. Every student finishes with a real title in their portfolio — not just exercises.
Embedded Systems
Microcontrollers, circuits, and sensors — the layer that makes hardware smart. Students wire, program, and debug devices that work in the real world.
Soft Robotics
Frontier robotics with flexible materials and bio-inspired design — where engineering meets biology, and where research universities are heading.
LEGO Robotics · GRADES K–5
The on-ramp: block coding, building challenges, and team competitions that make every elementary student an engineer first.
Projects Today. Applications Tomorrow.
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.
Learn by Touching It
Pick a lab and explore right here — NASA's 3D solar system, tonight's stars, a 3D human body, the inside of a cell. The same tools our teachers project in class.
100 Masterworks. Eight Galleries. One Guide.
A museum you can walk through from your desk — paintings, sculpture, treasures and wonders from every civilization, curated along the AP Art History framework. Tap any work and our AI docent tells its story — in any of 8 languages; works marked 3D open as real interactive scans.
AI With Guardrails
Our promise to every family: AI at SHA is never a shortcut around thinking — it is how students learn to understand. Here is how we keep it that way.
Guidance, Not Answers
Classroom AI explains the steps and asks the next question — it does not hand over finished homework. Students defend their work in their own words.
Clear Honor-Code Rules
From upper elementary on, we teach exactly what counts as AI help and what counts as cheating — and AI-assisted work is declared, not hidden.
School-Vetted Tools Only
Everything students touch in class is faculty-reviewed, free, ad-free, and requires no personal account — the same tools you see on this page.
Teachers Stay in Charge
AI never replaces the teacher. It takes over the repetitive work so our teachers spend more time one-on-one with your child.
Give Your Child a Builder's Education
Ask about AI & STEM placement for the 2026–27 school year.
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