The young people sitting in classrooms today will enter a workforce transformed by AI. For Washington’s business community, that makes the future of learning an economic issue with real consequences for our region.
When we founded KID in 2014, AI wasn’t driving the conversation about education. But we could already see a disconnect between the skills young people would need and how they were learning. We started with a simple idea: give kids real problems to solve and the freedom to build, experiment, get things wrong, and try again.
Twelve years and nearly half a million students, educators, parents, and caregivers later, I’ve learned a lot about what happens when you give young people that opportunity. And as AI changes how we learn and work, a few lessons feel particularly important.
