About RAISE

We create and share, innovate and study, forward-thinking AI-powered educational technologies, materials, and experiences to help people learn, create, critique, understand, and shape the world through computational action.

Our mission is to rethink and invent a more positive and inclusive future of education and learning in the era of AI. Our work informs, engages, and empowers millions of teachers, learners, innovators, researchers, and leaders worldwide.

We bring together the curiosity of experts, the creativity of innovators,  the rigor of world-class research, the experience of practitioners, and the perspective of leaders in a shared commitment to making a better, more inclusive, AI-powered world for shared prosperity. Rooted in MIT’s hands-on, minds-on approach to innovation, we believe AI is for everyone — and by empowering people to take responsible computational action, we help shape a better future for all.

The MIT RAISE Initiative

RAISE is MIT’s home for AI education. Whether it is with MIT App Inventor, in the MIT FutureMakers program for high school and early college students, Day of AI, or our other programs, “the students are placed as the designers of these systems in our approach.” Breazeal says. “We educate them in these methods. They build things with it. They design things in groups,” all to ensure people are “more savvy and cognizant about [AI] so they can make intelligent, informed decisions.”

Impact by the Numbers

MIT App Inventor

  • 15 years of MIT App Inventor
  • 24M learners used MIT App Inventor since inception
  • 2M users a month
  • 19 MIT App Inventor translated in 19 languages
  • 7.7M AI apps created
  • 200 countries use MIT App Inventor
  • 80% of primary schools in Hong Kong use MIT App Inventor
  • 48% of global south countries use MIT App Inventor

Day of AI

  • Global Day of AI programs in 6 countries
  • 1.5M students reached with Day of AI curriculum

FutureMakers

  • Over 40% (of 90 respondents) have gone on to top 25 universities, including 37% of the 47 high school participants now in college.
  • More than 100 organizations have hired past participants for internships.
  • An all-female 2021 Deep Learning track team (Team Code Blue with their project Machine Vision-based Facial Asymmetry Stroke Test) filed their first patent and are in the process of building a healthcare startup focused on early stroke detection.
  • A participant was awarded a US Congressional Medal for Youth in 2023 based on a project he started during the 2021 FutureMakers program. The app, Udiet, created by him and his teammates, focused on helping individuals jumpstart their health journey by aligning app recommendations with their age and budget.