What is NestAI

The Origin

NestAI is inspired from Boundless Biotech. Through COVID-19, our team has discovered the stagnating interest of biomedical engineering in high school, as students began drifting apart from biomedical engineering, Boundless Biotech took a hiatus.

It was only recently when I discovered a random YouTube video of a competition by a prestigious private school on new ideas. I began to ponder, “Why do many private institutions have innovation competitions?”

Completing some research on the subject, I began to identify a core discrepency amongst private schools and public schools: Education on Innovation.

With the proper education on innovation, one can drift into their own passions and develop their own ideas in a feasible manner, and I wondered “Hmm… Could AI help with this?”

A couple weeks later, that answer was yes.

NestAI is composed of three goals:

Improving the entrepreneurial education for children aged 5-19, encourages students to develop their own ideas and materials with a built-in Artificially Intelligent (AI) guide.
Inspires students to pursue their career interests, even if their current institution doesn’t provide the resources to assist.
Enable learners to bridge civic knowledge with taking action by understanding real-world problems, building networks, organizing plans for collective action, and exploring prosocial careers.

What is the Main Problem?

The specific problem that I am working to solve is the lack of access to quality education and opportunities for children from low-income backgrounds and impoverished communities, and the resulting gap in skills and outcomes for the future of work.

The scale of the problem is huge, both in the communities, I am working in and globally. According to UNESCO, more than 250 million children are out of school, and more than 600 million children are not learning basic skills in reading and math. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem, as more than 1.5 billion learners have been affected by school closures, and millions of children may never return to school. The most vulnerable and marginalized children are the hardest hit by the crisis, as they face multiple barriers and challenges in accessing quality education and opportunities.

The factors contributing to the problem include poverty, inequality, discrimination, violence, conflict, displacement, lack of infrastructure, lack of resources, lack of teachers, lack of curriculum, lack of support, lack of motivation, and lack of relevance. These factors prevent children from enrolling in school, staying in school, learning effectively in school, or applying their learning outside school.