Non-Trivial Research Scholars
The advanced tier of Non-Trivial's research pathway, offering high-achieving students ages 14-20 ongoing custom mentorship, publication support, and career guidance, with top projects earning up to $10,000 and other Scholars receiving at least $2,000.
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Non-Trivial Research Fellows
An 8-week online summer research fellowship for students ages 14-20 to develop an original research or policy project on high-impact issues including AI safety, with $1,000 in project grants available and no program fees; one of the most selective teen programs by application volume.
Algoverse AI Research Program
A 12-week online AI research program pairing high school and college students in small teams with mentors from institutions like Stanford, OpenAI, Meta FAIR, and Google DeepMind to develop LLM-reasoning research submitted to venues such as NeurIPS and ICLR; requires Python experience and a $3,325 fee with need-based and merit scholarships.
Pioneer Academics – Global Problem-Solving Institute: Analyzing AI
A college-accredited virtual research program where high school students in grades 9-12 tackle a predefined 'Analyzing AI' challenge exploring how to steer AI toward safer, more ethical outcomes, combining artificial intelligence, economics, and science-technology-society perspectives under university faculty mentorship.
Encode Justice / Encode AI
A youth-led national advocacy movement, founded by a California high schooler, that mobilizes over 1,000 high school and college students across 40+ states in chapters to shape AI policy, having sponsored laws like California's SB 53 AI safety act.
IBM SkillsBuild for High School – Artificial Intelligence
A free, self-paced online platform from IBM offering high school students courses and digital credentials in AI fundamentals, covering machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, chatbots, neural networks, and AI ethics.
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute – Self-Paced Courses
Free and paid self-paced online courses from NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute covering generative AI, deep learning, and data science fundamentals, with hands-on GPU-accelerated labs and certificates of competency for select courses.