A one-day workshop that helps you get noticed by colleges. Turn your passion and purpose into a story, a portfolio, and real impact.
Passion and impact isn’t enough. You need proof.
Getting into college isn’t about joining five clubs and hoping it adds up. It’s about having a story that’s actually yours. Most students have the spark but no plan, the passion but no proof.
That’s why admissions officers ignore 97% of student passion projects, they skip the foundation. SKAII Forward fixes that in a single day.
And yes, you’ll use AI. Not to do the thinking for you, but the way the sharpest people already do: to move faster, build bigger, and bring ideas to life.
You won’t sit and listen. You’ll build, create, and pitch, moving from a blank page to finished work with mentors right beside you.
Project 01
Before you build anything, you figure out who you are. Through hands-on card sorting and an AI that interviews you like a curious friend, you’ll walk out with a 10-word mission statement and a bio that sounds like you on your best day.
Project 02
Ideas are cheap. Proof is everything. You’ll map the timeline, the tasks, and the real action behind your mission, then build a live one-page website. A real URL, live on the internet, ready for any application, before the afternoon is over.
Project 03
Now it gets loud. In teams, against the clock, you’ll design an AI robot for 2035. What does it do? What should it never do? Then you pitch it. Three slides, one team, zero boring.
The line that makes your whole story click.
You at your best, ready to paste anywhere.
A real URL you can put on any application.
Proof you can build and present with others.
Something to mark the day you started.
Initiative, storytelling, AI fluency, and grit.
Your spot at SKAII Forward. All three projects, one full day, and you leave with your story, a live portfolio website, and a SKAII Forward certificate.
Purchase Pass →Everything in the Standard pass, plus two private check-ins after the event. Personal time with a SKAII mentor to talk through your progress and get guidance on where to take your project next.
Limited to 4 spots
Purchase Pass →Limited to 30 students
One day. A whole portfolio. Skills that outlast the certificate. Lock in your spot before it’s gone.
Reserve Your Spot →The world is changing faster than school can keep up. AI is reshaping how people learn, create, and work, and the teens who get comfortable with it now will be the ones who lead later. SKAII Forward helps your teen build that fluency early.
This isn’t a screen-time free-for-all or a lecture about the future. It’s a structured, hands-on day with a real outcome your teen can show on a college application that same night.
They’ll leave with tangible assets (a mission, a bio, a live website) and something harder to teach: the confidence that comes from finishing something real.
We balance offline, face-to-face activities with smart, guided use of AI, so your teen learns to lead the tools instead of leaning on them.
We’ve led AI workshops for youth through programs with CACI, George Mason University, and Girl in Tech. Our approach blends AI and imagination as a force for good.
Riya is the Director of AI Transformation at CACI and a CACI Fellow, an honor reserved for the company’s most exceptional technical talent. She guides organizations through their digital transformation journeys, empowering them to dream, reimagine, design, and realize their future. She brings visionary technology leadership, turning bold ideas into a clear, compelling picture of what tomorrow can be.
Riya is leading enterprise AI with a passion for guiding the next generation of leaders and AI-powered creators.
Beyond her professional realm, Riya’s passion for shaping tomorrow extends far and wide. She is deeply committed to nurturing the aspirations of the youth community. You can find her helping her daughter set up shop at Children’s Business Fairs, putting together gift boxes for children’s hospitals, and helping the volleyball team set clear goals and dream big!
In both her professional and personal spheres, Riya Jung strives to be a catalyst of innovation, empowerment, and compassion, driving positive change and inspiring those around her to reach greater heights.
Darin is the Founder and AI Creative Strategist of Skaii. She previously built an award winning, multi-million dollar agency, Outright, trusted by global brands like Google, YouTube, and Marriott. Darin brings the creative entrepreneurial spirit to Skaii, with training from MIT and Harvard. She believes the intersection of AI and imagination is a positive force for the world.
Darin is a longtime champion for the next generation of leaders. You will find her leading AI workshops with the youth community, mentoring kids at Children’s Business Fairs, and supporting causes like No Kid Hungry.
Darin believes in the potential of our youth and inspires them to step into the truest version of themselves, exude their brilliance, and create real impact in our world.
Drew is an AI Developer Intern at CACI International and an AI Development student at the University of Maryland Global Campus, on the Dean’s List.
Drew brings a unique perspective to AI, shaped by time as a collegiate basketball team captain and a professional basketball player abroad in South Korea. When a career pivot brought him back home, he discovered AI through peers at community college and never looked back, teaching himself coding and AI concepts from the ground up.
Drew is passionate about showing the next generation that AI is for everyone, not just tech insiders. At Skaii Forward, he’s here to share how students and athletes alike can use AI to open doors they didn’t know existed.