Where Arena has run so far.
Three engagements: a student course in Hong Kong, a student cohort in Beijing, and AI training for university staff at Tsinghua.
Bodley Academy: twenty students, five days.
A five-day course Phillip An designed and taught for Bodley Academy, with one real problem for each student.
Net Promoter Score across the 20 students in the course.
The pitch winners' check, in real seed money. The team spent it on a domain name.
For a ten-year-old to launch a sign-language-to-speech app, a problem he chose himself.
He walked in not knowing what an API was. He built it because his cousin is deaf, and kept iterating after demo day until the audio was clean enough for his grandmother to trust.
International School of Beijing: grades 7 to 12.
Arena's five-day student cohort at the International School of Beijing, one year after Hong Kong.
Every team launched a live product with real users, grades 7 to 12.
Final pitch prize. First real revenue earned during camp week, before the prize was even on the table.
Students who answered the post-camp survey. All six asked to continue.
The final pitch was judged by founders and operators from Harvard, Y Combinator and AI labs. Alumni now keep working on their projects in the School-Year Mentorship Program.
Schwarzman College: hands-on AI training.
AI training for a large group of staff at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua, taught by Phillip An.
The same hands-on format as our teacher training, built around the staff's own work, with their judgment in charge.
