Our AI With SureStart Programme
Through Singapore’s first structured AI literacy programme with university-backed mentorship, students complete a 15-week course fully integrated into the IB Middle Years curriculum. They work hands-on with generative AI, machine learning, and app development, guided by a Harvard Teaching Fellow and an AI researcher holding 88 patents.
Your child will design an AI-powered app that tackles a real-world problem and present it to industry judges at the Create-a-thon finale. They leave with a standout portfolio piece demonstrating their ability to identify problems, build innovative solutions, and perform under pressure - skills universities value highly.
Key Learning
Your child develops analytical thinking, creativity, adaptability, and leadership while learning to use AI responsibly. These skills come together in projects that solve genuine problems, with feedback from industry experts.
Milestones Development
Innovation Capstone Project: a working app that addresses a real-world challenge, presented to industry judges and added to your child's portfolio.
Learning How To Learn, Whatever Tools Come Next
The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimates 65% of children entering primary school today will work in jobs that do not yet exist. The specific jobs are unknowable. The skills to adapt to them are not.
Students in this programme learn to question AI before trusting it. They examine how algorithms make decisions, where bias creeps in, and who is responsible when things go wrong. They develop a critical eye, learning to question outputs, spot bias, and understand limits. These are the questions that will define their working lives.
Key Learning
AI as a socio-technical system, ethical decision-making, critical evaluation of AI outputs, projects tackling problems like climate, health, and inequality.
Milestones Development
Career pathway seminars with tech professionals. Exposure to AI applications in healthcare, environment, business, and creative industries.
What Your Child Gains Over Time
Research shows that students in bilingual programmes often make strong gains in both language development and overall learning. In this programme, students not only learn two languages, but also learn through both languages—using them to think, communicate, and solve problems across subjects. This strong bilingual foundation prepares students well for the IB Middle Years Programme.
By this stage, your child will have spent years reading, writing, discussing, and interpreting increasingly complex ideas across subjects in two languages, developing both academic proficiency and confidence.
Capstone Projects From the AI With SureStart Programme
Image Classifier for Waste Management
An app that identifies recyclable materials, helping families sort waste correctly.
Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Advisor
A tool that provides personalised sustainability tips based on your daily habits.
Virtual Marine Pet
An interactive app that teaches marine conservation through a virtual pet.
Earth Guardians AI App
A climate action app offering personalised sustainability recommendations, inspired by the LA wildfires.
MEET THE PROGRAMME INSTRUCTORS & MENTORS
Dr. Taniya Mishra is the founder and CEO of SureStart, a pioneering AI education incubator. An AI researcher with 88+ patents and numerous publications, she has held technical and leadership roles at AT&T Labs, Affectiva, and Interactions. Taniya speaks globally on ethical AI and innovation, and her work has been featured in Fortune, MIT Technology Review, NBC Learn, and The Atlantic. She has received awards including WomenTech Mentor of the Year and Leading Woman in AI by Nasdaq.
Leonardo Neves is a Principal Research Engineer at Snap Inc. and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University with expertise in natural language processing, data mining, and generative AI. He serves as an advisor for SureStart’s generative AI instructional design, helping shape responsible AI education and mentor students globally. With 1,700+ citations and over 10 AI/ML patents, Leo brings deep technical insight and real-world industry experience to preparing the next generation of AI leaders.
Dr. Ali researches human-robot interaction and creative computing at NYU. She designed and supervises XWA's 30-week Grade 7 robotics course, where students build expressive robots using machine learning, computer vision, and generative AI.
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FAQs
Get answers to the most common questions from prospective parents about our school.
AI foundations begin in KG2 (age 4) through the XCLerate programme, where children develop computational thinking and coding basics. The SureStart programme runs in Grade 6. Grade 7 adds creative robotics.
Dr. Taniya Mishra (88 patents, recognised by Nasdaq) leads the curriculum. Leonardo Neves (Harvard Teaching Fellow, Snap engineer) designs and develops the programme. XWA teachers are trained by SureStart.
Yes. SureStart graduates have secured internships at Amazon, Snap, Google, Microsoft, and Accenture. The programme also partners with MIT RAISE, Cornell Tech, and Carnegie Mellon, giving students exposure to leading AI research institutions.
No. Students learn how AI systems work: the mechanics behind the interface, the way models are trained, where bias enters. The goal is critical understanding, not passive consumption.
In Grade 6, every student builds an AI-powered app addressing a real-world problem. They present it to industry judges at the Create-a-thon. In Grade 7, they build creative robotic systems. These are portfolio pieces.
No. The programme is integrated into the IB curriculum. In KG2 to Grade 5, XCLerate runs during Units of Inquiry. In Grades 6 and 7, AI and robotics complement the IB MYP framework.
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