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LUCID ACADEMY · APPLIED AI FOR AMBITIOUS STUDENTS

Lucid helps high-school students understand modern AI and use it to build a tested product or research project with close technical mentorship. Start in the ten-week AI Innovators cohort or pursue a focused goal through 1:1 Research.

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No programming prerequisite. The included Launchpad teaches the essential coding and tool skills before the cohort begins.

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Sep 12–Nov 223 live hours each weekGroups of 5 or fewer
Nidhi Sharath with her Best Presentation Award
MEDICAL AI · INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION

Automated brain-tumor segmentation

Illustrated portrait of NidhiNidhi · Only high-school presenter at TMC AI Summit · IYRC Best Presentation Award

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REGENERON ISEF 2026 · FIRST AWARDSA new avenue for treating retinal diseaseAI FOR MATERIALS · PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONIllustrated portrait of SatyaMachine learning for photocatalyst discovery

Our mentors have worked, researched, or published with

Amazon Robotics
Carnegie Mellon
Sanofi
Johns Hopkins APL
Stanford Medicine
IEEE
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WHY LUCID · IN 70 SECONDS

AI changed the ceiling for a high-school student.

AI has expanded the problems a student can realistically attempt. See how Lucid turns that opportunity into a working, tested project.

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FALL 2026September 12 – November 22, 2026150+ students taughtPods capped at 5Virtual · live
VERIFIED STUDENT RESULTS

Research published. Products shipped. Major awards won.

Lucid students have turned mentorship into work recognized by journals, international conferences, science fairs, and real users.

150+students taught across Lucid programs$6,000Regeneron ISEF 2026 First AwardPublishedsingle-author paper in Catalysis TodayBest presentationinternational research presentation

Hear directly from students.

These quotes link to the original recorded interviews.

“We always got to apply the skills on our own. It taught us how to figure things out for ourselves and make the models work.”

RishikaStudent · Pennsylvania
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“The program was a short lesson followed by lots of hands-on coding and group work. It was a great way to learn.”

AyaanStudent · Texas
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“This class was different because most of what we learned came from practicing and writing code ourselves.”

RyanStudent · New York
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TOP-DOWN AI EDUCATION

Build with today's tools. Learn the AI underneath as you improve the project.

High-school students can learn fast enough to become AI-native while the field is still being defined. Lucid starts with a real application, then teaches the code, model concepts, data, math, and research methods needed to make it work.

THE LUCID PATH
02 / TWO WAYS TO WORK WITH LUCID

Start in a cohort. Go further one-to-one.

AI Innovators is a structured ten-week build. The 1:1 Fellowship is for a student already pursuing a specific competition, paper, product, or longer technical goal.

FLAGSHIP · TEN-WEEK FALL PROGRAM

AI Innovators

Learn how modern AI works, then apply it through Physical AI or AI for Science to build and test a complete product or research project.

  • 3 live hours + 1–2 project hours weekly
  • Build groups of no more than five students
  • Named technical lead for each track
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INDIVIDUAL · THREE TO SIX MONTHS

1:1 Research Fellowship

For students who already have a clear technical target. Lucid scopes the work, finds the right available specialist, and builds a custom milestone plan.

  • Weekly 1:1 technical mentorship
  • Built around one named student goal
  • Rolling admissions and specialist matching
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04 / WATCH THE WORK
MEDICAL AI · FULL PROJECT PRESENTATION

Watch a student explain a brain-tumor segmentation system from model to results.

The presentation walks through the technical approach, evaluation, and conclusions—the work itself, not a certificate standing in for it.

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Full project presentation

Brain tumor segmentation with CNNs

FREE PARENT GUIDE · UPDATED FOR 2026

A parent’s guide to helping your child use AI well.

A plain-English map of modern AI, the questions to ask any program, and examples that separate meaningful student work from a polished demo.

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FALL 2026 APPLICATIONS

Choose a track. Build work you will be proud to put your name on.

The application takes about ten minutes. We use the conversation that follows to understand the student’s interests and recommend the right starting point.

Start the application AI Innovators begins September 12 · No prior programming course required.