Four projects of the kind students finish in a single term. Talk to the agent. Click through the website. Play the game. Run the automation. Then imagine it on a college application.
Maya's agent answers questions about cheese, tells terrible jokes, and — because she completed the safety mission — refuses to make things up when it doesn't know. She wrote its rules, tested it until it broke, and fixed it.
Elias drafted this with AI, then spent two missions cutting it down — deleting the parts that sounded like a robot and rewriting the rest in his own voice. His grandmother in Manila reads it. Click the tabs.
Most salamanders lose their gills and walk onto land. Axolotls just… don't. They keep their feathery gills their whole life and stay in the water. Scientists call it neoteny. I call it a lifestyle choice.
Built by a team of four. Version one was unplayable — too fast, no scoring, nobody had fun. They playtested with the class, cut a whole mechanic, and shipped version three. That is the actual lesson.
Priya's class kept mis-shelving returned books. She named every step a human does, handed those steps to a worker she built, and now the cart prints a sorted list each morning. Her librarian uses it.
None of these children learned "AI." They learned to define a problem, describe it precisely, test their own work, catch a confident wrong answer, and hand something finished to another human. The AI was the instrument. Those are the skills.
A portfolio that started in third grade. Piloting Spring 2027 with one founding partner school.