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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything students touch in class is faculty-reviewed, free, ad-free, and requires no personal account — the same tools you see on this page.
AI never replaces the teacher. It takes over the repetitive work so our teachers spend more time one-on-one with your child.
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.
