​🛑 School is back. The tools that will actually teach are being built this weekend.

​Every classroom, every campus, every learner is asking the same question in 2026: what does AI change about how we teach and learn? Not the demos. The daily work. Homework, feedback loops, attention, mastery, motivation.

​Building a chatbot is easy. Building a tool a teacher adopts twice is the hard part. This weekend we build for the students, teachers, and administrators who show up Monday morning.

​🛠️ Join our Discord for credits, team formation, and support: Join Discord Server — 1-2 Builders per team

​Your Play book for the day

​https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fwfurFgm3b-HYVT_mnvTtlTeZqpX5gbHv_APgwy5YAo/edit?usp=sharing

​Master Slide for submission

​https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LC9RFUhlsuUjJ_ncHrT5Fnlf-gjglRGLQoIuAz1IPK0/edit?usp=sharing

​📅 Schedule

• ​9:00 AM Check-in 10:00 – 10:30 AM Opening Remarks and workshops

• ​10:30 - 11:20 AM Panel

  • ​Deeksha Brihdish, Product Experience Analyst I Innovations Specialist I Founder @Parikatha.io

  • ​Yuning (Lia) Zhao, Lead Product Manager

  • ​Philip Vahey Founder and President at Applied Learning Insights

  • ​Jyoti Srivastava, Award-Winning EdTech Leader, Manager at Castilleja School

  • ​Alex Berry, Senior Product Manager at Khan Academy

• ​12:00 PM Lunch

• ​1:00 PM Build

• ​4:00 PM Hard submission deadline

• ​4:00 – 5:00 PM Demos (3 min limit)

• ​5:00 PM 🏆 Audience voting and award ceremony

​Focus Tracks

​🎓 Track 1 · Teacher-Facing Tools Grading, lesson planning, formative feedback, IEP drafting, differentiation. Build something a real teacher would use twice.

​📚 Track 2 · Student Learning Homework helpers that don't just answer, that teach. Spaced repetition. Bloom's taxonomy in practice. Show retention, not just "helpfulness."

​🧠 Track 3 · Learning Science in the Loop Interventions grounded in cognitive science. Metacognition scaffolds, distributed practice, active recall. Bring the research citations.

​🃏 Wildcard (Open Category) Any concept that doesn't fit the tracks above. If it solves a real problem in education, build it.

​🏆 Prizes and Bounties

​1st $500 | 2nd $300 | 3rd $200

​🏫 Educational resources and customer pipelines: TAL Education Group offers outstanding teams introductions to TAL's product and partnerships team for follow-up evaluation and potential pilot pathways. Founded in 2003, TAL Education Group is one of the world's largest education technology companies, having served over 10 million students through more than 1,000 learning centers across 110 cities, and now building the next generation of AI-powered learning products.

​💰 2M Investment: Beta Fund's flagship founder program for the next generation of agent-native companies. The most exceptional teams will be invited to interview for the Fellowship and may receive an immediate $200,000 pre-seed investment from Beta Fund, with up to $2 million in total funding reserved through the seed stage.

​🤝 Cohosts & Partner

​Epic for Kids bridges the gap between traditional reading and digital innovation, serving as a comprehensive library and literacy platform for K-8. By integrating accessible digital resources with targeted intervention and assessment tools, Epic empowers educators, districts, and families to drive literacy outcomes while sustaining student engagement and a lifelong love of reading.