On June 7, Adam Browning at Washington Leadership Academy, a public school in DC, hosted a student hackathon using Playlab. Students had been working as part of consulting teams with different staff at WLA to understand their challenges and design real solutions to address challenges at WLA.

On their last Friday of the school year, they took some of that consulting work into Playlab to build AI apps that address those challenges. We did a 30-min introduction before students spent ~60 minutes building.

While some students built projects related to their consultancies, most created AI apps that were either silly or connected to their interests — which was cool to see as even “joke” apps required them to externalize their thinking, apply computational thinking principles they learned in a course they all took, and to build intuitions about how they could harness an LLM to meet their goals.

Here’s some of what they built

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/167jMXiXkfDg4afruQkTKzuHrdmk_2mouB46Kz5Axa4w/edit#responses