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Choose Your Challenge
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  • Explore future work, systems, and human capability.

  • Use advanced AI workflows intentionally.

  • Create something real with practical relevance.

  • Work inside a premium innovation cohort.

THE EXPERIENCE

Not a course. A studio.

Participants build, test, create, collaborate, and explore future pathways through applied AI-enabled learning.

For curious builders, creators, and future professionals.

WHO IT’S FOR

AI Futures Studio is designed for ambitious emerging adults who are excited by possibility, curious about AI, and motivated to build something meaningful.

✔ Ages 16–24

✔ Curious about AI and future careers

✔ Interested in entrepreneurship, innovation, or creative work

✔ Motivated to build something real

✔ Open to experimentation and collaboration

✔ Interested in future-focused learning experiences

This is for those who want to shape what's next.

Not just prepare for it.

FOUNDING COHORT

Small by design.

AI Futures Studio is intentionally small.

We are curating a founding cohort of thoughtful, ambitious emerging adults excited to build, experiment, and explore what future-ready learning can become.

10 participants

6-week founding innovation cohort

Hybrid (Edmonton + virtual collaboration)

CAD $795

What You'll Leave With

Limited scholarship consideration available for exceptional applicants demonstrating strong fit and financial need.

DEMONSTRATION PILOT

Designed as an early validation environment.

AI Futures Studio is a flagship initiative of Education & Workforce Futures Lab.

This founding cohort serves as an early demonstration pilot exploring future-ready learning models, AI capability development, and education-to-workforce innovation.

The purpose is not simply program delivery.

It is to generate implementation learning, test assumptions, observe participant engagement, and inform larger future innovation pathways.

✔ Flagship initiative
✔ Founder-led demonstration pilot
✔ Selective admissions
✔ Small cohort experimentation
✔ Future learning innovation

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No.

    AI Futures Studio is a selective applied innovation cohort designed around experimentation, collaboration, and future-ready capability development.

  • No.

    Applications are reviewed selectively by the founding team to ensure strong cohort fit.

  • No.

    Curiosity, initiative, and openness to experimentation matter more than prior technical expertise.

  • No.

    AI Futures Studio is designed as a hybrid experience, combining Edmonton-based and virtual collaboration elements.

  • Participants will leave with practical AI experience, a stronger understanding of emerging future pathways, meaningful collaborative experience, and a tangible project or artifact developed during the cohort.

  • Yes.

    Limited scholarship consideration may be available for exceptional applicants demonstrating strong fit and financial need.

  • Selected applicants may be invited to a short conversation before final admission decisions.

    Accepted participants will receive onboarding and payment instructions.

  • AI Futures Studio is scheduled to begin in mid July 2026. Accepted participants will receive detailed onboarding information following admission.

  • AI Futures Studio is launching as an early demonstration pilot under Education & Workforce Futures Lab.

    This founding cohort allows us to test future-ready learning approaches, observe participant engagement, and generate implementation insights that can inform broader education and workforce innovation.

  • You do not need to have a clear career plan to participate.

    AI Futures Studio is designed to help participants explore possibilities, develop practical capabilities, and gain greater confidence about future directions.

What You'll Leave With

Practical AI Skills

Learn how to use leading AI tools for research, productivity, creativity, problem-solving, and project development.

A Portfolio Project

Complete a meaningful project that demonstrates initiative, creativity, and future-ready capabilities.

Greater Career Clarity

Explore emerging opportunities, industries, and pathways influenced by AI and technological change.

A Future-Ready Toolkit

Develop workflows, tools, and habits that can support learning, work, entrepreneurship, and personal growth.

A High-Ambition Peer Network

Join a small founding cohort of curious builders, creators, and future professionals.

Certificate of Participation

Receive recognition for completing the founding cohort.

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The 6-Week Journey

Week 1 — Identity & Curiosity.

Students explore:

  • personal interests

  • strengths

  • values

  • problems they care about

Week 2 — Future of Work

Students explore:

  • how AI is changing industries

  • emerging roles

  • interdisciplinary careers

Week 3 — Sector Exploration

Students investigate industries such as:

  • health

  • technology

  • energy

  • environment

  • design

  • creative industries

Week 4 — Challenge Projects

Students work in teams on real-world challenges. Examples:

Healthcare
→ Design a solution to reduce patient wait times.

Energy
→ Imagine how AI could improve renewable energy systems.

Education
→ Rethink how students explore career pathways.

Week 5 — Refinement & Feedback

Improve your work through testing, iteration, and peer feedback.

Week 6 — Showcase & Reflection

Present your project and reflect on future pathways and next steps.

Apply for Consideration

Applications are now open for the founding cohort.

AI Futures Studio is a flagship initiative of Education & Workforce Futures Lab.