AI Club at Wilmot Elementary

No. Students are never on devices; that's a written rule of the program. Kids spend the session building with their hands: play-doh, LEGO, craft supplies, paper codes, and games. The only technology in the room is the instructor's laptop and a projector, used on some weeks for a short whole-group moment.

None, and nothing. Kids never type into an AI tool, never make accounts, and never enter anything that could be stored. On projector weeks, the instructor photographs their builds (the builds, not the kids, unless you've given photo permission), shows the photos to an AI tool on the big screen, and the whole group reacts together. Enrollment information is covered by our COPPA policy: nothing is collected from children directly, safety notes go only to the instructor, and student data is deleted within 90 days after the session ends. Read the full policy.

At Wilmot, Jenny teaches every session herself: EverBot's founder, who wrote the curriculum. Before EverBot, she spent 18 years in the federal government in a position of public trust, which meant a full OPM background investigation: fingerprints, plus interviews with her neighbors, coworkers, and previous employers. Any contract instructor EverBot hires passes a background check before stepping into a classroom. Classes are capped at 15 students, and allergies, learning needs, and any safety notes you share at registration are reviewed before every session.

Here's a real one, Week 3 of Spy Academy: HQ has a tip about a suspect, but only a vague description. Every kid builds what they think the suspect looks like out of play-doh and craft supplies. Then the instructor photographs a few builds, shows them to the AI on the projector, and asks it to describe what it sees. Some guesses are wildly wrong, and the room erupts. Then the debrief: everyone heard the same description and built something different, and the AI saw something different again. Details matter when you talk to AI. That's the lesson, and nobody touched a screen to learn it.

You choose at registration, with three options: photos OK for marketing, photos shared only with enrolled families, or no photos at all. Either way, the camera points at the builds, not the kids, unless you've said otherwise.