AI Trailblazers · Level 2 · Weeks 2–5

Build your first
AI agent.

You've met AI and learned to prompt it. Now you build with it — four weeks from your first working agent to a published, portfolio-ready project you can put on a college app.

Week 2 → Week 3 → Week 4 → Week 5

🧭 How to use this page

Follow the path down, Week 2 → 5. Tap a week title to open its full deep dive, or tap a chip to jump straight to that part (theory, the build, or the energizer). Each week also has slides, speaker notes, and a Colab notebook in the Teaching Hub.

▶ You can prompt AI — now let's make it act
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Week 2 From concepts to a working prototype

Building your first AI agent & Kaggle foundations

🧠 Agent anatomy · ReAct 🏆 Kaggle ecosystem 🛠️ Build a "DataFetcher" agent ⚡ Energizer
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Week 3 Agents that reason with structured data

Data analysis agents & project scoping

⚖️ Deterministic vs. agentic 🎯 SMART project scoping 📊 Build a "DataExplainer" agent ⚡ Energizer
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Week 4 Build · debug · iterate

Independent project development (hackathon)

🐛 Debugging agentic systems 🏗️ Structured hackathon 🩺 Debugging clinic ⚡ Energizer
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Week 5 From project to portfolio asset

Polishing & presentation

🚀 Pathways & resumes ✨ Polish + Gradio UI 📓 Publish to Kaggle ⚡ Energizer
Open week →
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🏆 A published agent project on your portfolio

The payoff

What you'll walk away with.

Final deliverables & success metrics

  • A working agentic AI project on Google Colab with clear documentation.
  • A public Kaggle notebook telling your project's story.
  • A 3-minute project pitch, sharpened by peer feedback.
  • A portfolio page ready for internship & college applications.

Teaching this? → the Teaching Hub has the slide decks, speaker notes, energizers & Colab notebooks for every week.