Six weeks. Seven skills. One generation of young people learning to question the systems that shape their world. Open to grades 5 through 12, in-person near Columbia Heights Metro Station, Washington, D.C.
Fellows who complete the six weeks leave with two things: a Civics Remix Certificate of Completion, and a finished work product they built during the program. Both are theirs to share with college applications, programs, and portfolios.
You are not just learning about AI. You are contributing real prompts and research findings to the Civics Remix AI Agent currently in development — the tool that future students will use.
Fellows practice facilitating Harkness peer discussions and leave able to run a room, not just sit in one.
Dissect texts that have shaped power and truth for centuries, then apply those same tools to the AI systems shaping your world today.
Use verified sources to research civic questions that AI cannot answer reliably. Learn to tell the difference between a good source and a confident-sounding one.
Apprentices
Grades 5 to 6
Builders
Grades 7 to 9
Architects
Grades 10 to 12
Every skill in the program is built to last beyond the summer. Click any card to see what you will actually do.
Challenge every claim. Ask for evidence.
Fellows learn to interrogate any claim, including claims made by AI systems, textbooks, and authority figures. The skill is not skepticism for its own sake. It is the disciplined habit of asking: What is the evidence, who produced it, and what is missing from this story?
Facilitate real discussions. Lead peers through inquiry.
Leadership in this program means the ability to hold a room in productive disagreement. Fellows practice Harkness facilitation, the same method used in the most rigorous secondary schools in the country, until they can run a peer discussion without a teacher in the room.
Understand AI bias and inequality.
AI systems are trained on human-generated data, which means they inherit human biases at scale. Fellows learn to identify whose stories AI tells well, whose stories it tells badly, and whose stories it erases entirely, using real prompts and real outputs as their laboratory.
Ask AI better questions. Control the story.
The quality of what AI gives you depends almost entirely on the quality of what you ask it. Fellows learn to write prompts that surface better information, expose bias, and produce outputs that can actually be verified, rather than prompts that produce confident-sounding nonsense.
Dissect texts for bias, power, and truth.
The same texts that have shaped civilization for centuries are also the training data that shapes AI. Fellows read primary sources, historical documents, and classical arguments not as museum pieces but as live evidence of how power gets written into language, and how language gets written into systems.
Investigate real civic questions using verified sources.
Fellows learn to investigate civic questions that matter to their communities using sources that can actually be verified. The goal is not a bibliography. The goal is the ability to walk into any conversation about power, policy, or history and know how to find out what is actually true.
Contribute to a real AI tool used by students globally.
Fellows are not just learning about AI. They are helping build the Civics Remix Agent itself — the tool future cohorts will use to investigate civic questions. Every Fellow contributes a real piece of the system: a prompt template, a sourced finding, a methodology note, or a community insight that the Agent uses to teach the next student.
Every weekday, Fellows show up ready to think out loud. Monday through Thursday is in person, near Columbia Heights Metro Station. Friday is a virtual studio day where each Fellow works on their portfolio artifact.
In-person sessions run Monday through Thursday, 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM, at a location accessible from the Columbia Heights Metro Station. Friday sessions are virtual. Full location details are shared with confirmed Fellows.
Fill out the short form below, and a member of the Civics Remix team will be in touch with program details, application materials, and next steps. This cohort is limited to 25 Fellows.
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