Youth Advanced AI Lessons

🛠️ AI Innovator Track 

We don’t just teach AI — we grow AI Builders.

Lessons.

2 Weeks - 10 Lessons.

Program:

AI Innovator Track (Youth Advanced)

Duration:

2 Weeks

Format:

10 Lessons + Mini Capstone

Outcome:

AI Builder Badge

🟢 WEEK 1 — Becoming an AI Builder

🎯 Focus:

Confidence + Core Building Skills

Lesson 1: Advanced Prompt Engineering

Writing structured prompts

Role prompting

Task breakdown prompts

Output formatting control

Practical: Students redesign weak prompts into powerful ones.

Lesson 2: Multimodal AI Creation

Text-to-image

Image-to-text

Audio tools

Basic video AI tools

Practical: Create a mini AI media project.

Lesson 3: AI Tool Stacking

What tool stacking means

Combining ChatGPT + image tool + automation tool

Building small systems instead of one-off outputs.

Practical: Build a 3-tool workflow.

Lesson 4: Workflow Automation (Beginner)

What automation means

Simple no-code tools

Trigger → Action thinking

Practical: Design a simple automated workflow (conceptual or demo-based).

Lesson 5: AI Ethics & Responsible Building

AI bias

Deepfakes

Responsible use

Academic honesty

Data privacy basics

Activity: Group discussion + short reflection task.

🟢 WEEK 2 — Thinking Like an AI Innovator

🎯 Focus:

Systems Thinking + Career Direction

Lesson 6: Introduction to AI Agents

What AI agents are

Step-by-step task execution

Simple agent examples

Practical: Map how an AI agent would complete a task.

Lesson 7: Introduction to RAG (Conceptual)

Why AI sometimes “hallucinates”

Connecting AI to knowledge sources

Retrieval basics (simple explanation)

Activity: Students design a “School Knowledge AI Assistant” concept.

Lesson 8: AI Content & Productivity Systems

Planning content pipelines

Research → Draft → Design → Publish workflow

System thinking

Practical: Build a structured AI workflow for a topic.

Lesson 9: AI Career Paths

AI Engineering

Automation

Data Science

AI Product Development

AI Strategy

Activity: Students choose a future path and explain why.

Lesson 10: Mini Capstone Project

Students build a small AI-powered solution.

Examples:

AI Study Assistant System

AI Content Workflow

AI Research Helper

AI Career Advisor Bot (concept design)

Automated content pipeline

They present:

The problem

The tools used

The workflow

Ethical consideration.

 📊 Assessment Structure

(Coming Soon n' To be included).

1️⃣ Continuous Assessment (40%)

Participation

Practical exercises

Mini tasks

2️⃣ Final Capstone Project (60%)

Graded on:

Creativity

Practical application

Clarity of workflow

Responsible AI use

Presentation

🏅 Completion Badge

Badge Name:

AI Innovator – Youth Advanced

Criteria: ✔ Completed all 10 lessons

✔ Submitted capstone

✔ Passed final evaluation

Badge Purpose:

Shareable on LinkedIn

Add to portfolio

Proof of builder-level skillation.

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Soft AI Academy is the education and talent-development arm of Soft AI Africa, created to train Africans with practical, job-ready Artificial Intelligence skills that solve real problems across the continent.

We focus on hands-on learning, mentorship, and real-world projects, not just theory. Our programs are designed for students, professionals, entrepreneurs, institutions, and governments looking to build or adopt AI responsibly and effectively.