Company: Praxis AI, Clemson, SC
Company Description: Praxis is the act of transformation powered by data + humans + machines. Praxis AI is a modern education & research company dedicated to solving many of the world’s toughest problems. Founded in 2019, Praxis AI has revolutionized learning at a U.S. university, built a virtual institute for indigenous health research, designed the ISO Digital Learning standard, and hosted a cancer BioHackathon.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution
 Nomination Title: Praxis AI's AI Teaching AI to High Schoolers
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January 1, 2023
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Praxis AI is transforming virtual and hybrid learning through the magic of AI. Students grow together in a safe, virtual environment leveraging AI-powered resources including AI generated content, an AI agent named Pria who communicates with the best large language model (LLM) AI resources (ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, others), experiential Jupyter Notebook labs in fully functional VMs, and collaboration between learners Pria, and mentors in Discord.
Our “Praxis Foundations of AI” junior/senior high-school course – featuring AI-expert Reed Bender – guides students through a cutting-edge collection of resources and labs to equip them with the skills and tools to understand both the mathematics underlying machine learning and the revolutionary Python applications to implement AI.
The Praxis LXP is available 24x7x365 via any web browser and includes four learning paths, thirteen lessons, and over fifty hours of content. The learning paths have been organized into four fundamental elements (Water, Earth Air, Fire) that coordinate the stages of learning:
The first Learning Path, Water, gives students the foundational understanding necessary to progress in AI development. Students learn statistics, linear algebra, and data science techniques that are universal tools in Machine Learning.
The second Learning Path, Earth, takes these concepts and applies them to the most basic tools in machine learning that are crucial to understand. Students are led through interactive Python code in which they are taught how to perform linear and logistic regression, K-nearest neighbor classification, principal component analysis (PCA), and dimensionality reduction techniques such as autoencoding.
The third Learning Path, Air, is dedicated to the ideas underlying the more advanced AI systems today such as neural networks and large language models.
Finally, in the fourth Learning Path, Fire, students aggregate all this knowledge to perform time-series analyses and create advanced generative AI models. This equips the students with a deep understanding of the mathematics and theory which underlie groundbreaking tech like ChatGPT in today’s world.
In the final project, students build their own large language model using the skills and coding expertise they developed throughout the course. This qualifies students for the Foundations of AI digital badge from Praxis AI/Credly.
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The Governor’s School of Science and Math (GSSM) in South Carolina is ranked in the top 10 of all high schools in the United States. Praxis AI empowers GSSM students to learn AI, data science, programming, and computational biology skills in several online, experiential courses.
One of the few advanced public residential high schools of its kind, GSSM creates uniquely challenging experiences for SC's top students within a culture that promotes high achievement. GSSM’s two-year residential high school program—as well as its virtual high school program, summer camps, and outreach programs—all invite young people to explore the subjects they love in a diverse, inclusive, and uncommonly supportive academic environment.
Praxis AI is honored to empower virtual STEM courses at GSSM as its students embrace the school’s rigorous approach to education and in so doing begin to realize their full potential.
Students who complete this course qualify for the Foundations of AI digital badge. Earners have successfully demonstrated experiential skills in data science, statistical learning, clustering, neural networks, generative AI and practical AI applications. The Foundations of AI badge requires 50+ hours of hands-on activities and labs across 16 skills that make up a foundational understanding of artificial intelligence for both research and industry applications.
Benefits to the students include:
- Seamless discovery of high-quality learning content
- Customized and personalized learning journey
- Access to the most relevant and current information in real-time
- Increased engagement and retention of knowledge
- Time-saving and efficient learning
For learning institutions, our platform offers a valuable solution for delivering top-notch education. By integrating AI-powered content curation, institutions can:
- Enhance the learning experience for students.
- Stay ahead of the curve with access to the latest and most relevant educational material.
- Foster student engagement and knowledge retention.
- Increase institution's reputation as a leader in technology-enhanced education.
- Save resources and time previously spent on manual content curation.
Join the AI-powered revolution in learning today and experience the future of education!
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The following attachments, URLs, and support materials are available to provide evidence of the success of Praxis AI’s Foundation of AI course at GSSM:
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