🔥AI & Business Workshop for Purpose-Driven Youth
Go from Idea to Demo using AI in 4 Days! 🚀
Summer 2025 | Middle - High School students invited!
This isn’t just another bootcamp.
It’s a unique, multi-skill, hands-on experience, packaged into 4 days. Modeled after startup programs in Bay Area and New York ($10,000+ value), workshops like this are typically reserved for entrepreneurs and product leaders. We have adapted it for age 12 to 18+ student audience and are bringing it for the first time to Cordoba Academy!
🎓Students will learn to think like builders, design with AI, and showcase ideas that matter!
👉🏽 What you will do:
🔍 Identify & scope real-life problems and propose solutions
🧑🏽💻 Prototype your ideas using AI-driven "vibe coding"
🎤 Craft your pitch and present to a live audience
💡 Learn about cutting-edge AI tools, debate key issues
🌟 Practice professional skills: strategy, planning, management, confidence
🎁 Walk away with realistic project work you can share in college or job applications
🌱 Sign-up for 1:1 coaching with Kashif*
*5 students, first come/first served. Parents encouraged to join. Students with learning disabilities, IEP / 504 Plans prioritized.
👉🏽 Registration Details:
Requirements: No prior experience is required with coding or AI. Just bring your laptop 💻, lunch 🥗, and curiosity!
Dates / Time: July 21 – 24 | 9 am - 3:30 pm daily
Sign-up early so you have a spot. To maximize engagement, we are limiting the workshop to 15 students. Registration closes on Fri July 18.
How to Register: Purchase the ticket. $290 per student "launch special" price only for summer 2025.
✅ Students will learn and apply concepts & skills that serious professionals are mastering right now to secure their future success.
✅ Each student will get to build their own project.
👉🏽 What each day will look like:
Sessions will run 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM promptly everyday, with short breaks. Please arrive in advance.
Do bring your lunch / snacks. We want you to be energized! (Oh, and bring your laptop.)
We will aim to complete all work in class.
Each day will be divided into Business and AI immersion sessions. We will reinforce functional skills and entrepreneurial mindset throughout.
Approach: We believe in challenging students beyond comfort, but also creating room for practice & mastery. We will balance the learning stage and goals of our students and encourage a mutually supportive environment. Which is why...
Phone use policy: "If you're there, you're not here," said...well, I said that. Students may use their phones if required for workshop activities or during breaks. Phones must otherwise be put away. Please plan accordingly.
👉🏼 Still have questions? Attend an Info Session:
Email Kashif at kashif@onceupon.pro
Join a Q&A session: Each session has its own Zoom link. We suggest copying & pasting the options below to your calendar.
Mon 6/30, 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Click here to join.
Wed 7/2, 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Click here to join.
Wed 7/9, 5:30 - 6:30 PM. Click here to join.
Workshop will be led by Kashif Ali.
Founder of Neuron Labs | Certified Executive Functioning Coach | Startup advisor
Seasoned business leader, ex-Microsoft | MBA/MS.Ed – Wharton/UPenn | BA – Dartmouth