Free · Grades 9–12
Saplings: Learn With AI
An 8-week live online programme that teaches students to use AI to understand, check and learn honestly — safely, with parents involved.
- 8 live weekend sessions
- Recordings on YouTube
- Certificate
Bright Pines Foundation · Grow With AI
Learn to think with AI — not hand your thinking over to it.
Two programmes, one approach. Free AI learning for school students, and job-ready AI skills for people building their careers.
- Section 8 non-profit
- Working with schools since 2019
- Delhi NCR and online
Free for students
Certificate on completion
Paid · 6-week cohorts
Evergreen: AI Career Accelerator
Practical AI for work — writing, research, sales and marketing, automation and chatbots — ending in a capstone project you can show employers.
- Live evening cohorts
- Capstone portfolio project
- Evergreen Certified AI Practitioner
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Find your path
Tell us who you are and we'll take you to the right place.
- I'm a parent
- I'm a student (Grades 9–12)
- I work at a school
- I'm a graduate or job-seeker
- I'm a working professional
- I represent a company or college
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Coming up
Dates for your calendar
Saplings · Session 1
Sat, 17 Oct 2026
11:00 AM IST · Free · Online
Evergreen · Free intro webinar
Date announced soon
Free · 60 minutes · Online
Evergreen · Cohort 1 begins
Mon, 19 Oct 2026
Why now
AI is already part of learning and work. Judgement isn't — yet.
In the classroom
Students use AI for homework and projects, often without anyone showing them how to check an answer or where help ends and copying begins.
In the job market
Employers increasingly look for people who can apply AI to real work and show proof of it — not just a certificate.
Our answer
Teach people to think with AI: attempt first, question the answer, verify it, and keep their own judgement in charge.
Our method
Attempt → Ask → Challenge → Verify → Reflect
The same five steps in every session, until they become the way a learner approaches any answer.
- 1
Attempt
Try the problem yourself first and write down your answer.
- 2
Ask
Put the same question to an AI tool and read what it says.
- 3
Challenge
Ask it why. Push back on the parts that look wrong.
- 4
Verify
Check it against a book, your notes, a teacher or a trusted source.
- 5
Reflect
Write what you learned — from the tool and from your own attempt.
Scroll sideways to see all five steps.
Which programme is right for you?
Saplings
- For
- School students, Grades 9–12, registered by a parent
- Format
- 8 weekly live online sessions, 60 minutes, weekends
- Fee
- Free
- You get
- Saplings Certificate in AI Learning Readiness
- Next start
- Sat, 17 Oct 2026
- How to join
- Parent registers online in two minutes
Evergreen
- For
- Graduates, job-seekers, career switchers, returners and working professionals
- Format
- 6-week live cohort, weekday evenings and one weekend session
- Fee
- From ₹3999 (early-bird)
- You get
- Evergreen Certified AI Practitioner and a capstone project
- Next start
- Mon, 19 Oct 2026
- How to join
- Apply → short call → payment link → seat confirmed
Who teaches
Taught by a practitioner
Atul Singh
Programme Lead, AI Learning Readiness Initiative
Atul is an AI training and adoption partner who helps sales and marketing teams put AI to work. He builds AI chatbots, automations and workflows with tools like n8n, Zapier and Make, and brings that hands-on practice into every Saplings session and Evergreen cohort.
View profile on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)Since 2019
Seven years of work with schools and communities
Before AI learning, we repaired classrooms, built toilets and installed clean drinking water in rural schools, and supported families through the COVID years. That work is why schools trust us with what comes next.
2019
Schools first
Repairing classrooms, adding furniture and building separate toilets so girls stay in school.
2019–2020
Clean drinking water
RO drinking-water systems in rural schools, with hygiene sessions.
2020–2021
The COVID years
Dry rations for families in Delhi and free N95 masks and safety kits through both waves.
2021–2025
Community programmes
Books, learning material and continued school infrastructure work.
2026
Grow With AI
Saplings and Evergreen: AI learning with judgement.
Bring Bright Pines to your organisation
Schools
Free School Connect workshops for Grades 9–12, run with your teachers present.
Companies & colleges
Live AI and automation projects for small businesses, hiring certified graduates, and Evergreen batches for colleges.
Questions people ask
Start where you are.
Register a student for free, or apply for the next Evergreen cohort.
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