💻🧑‍💻 College-level Intro to Coding & AI online summer courses @ UofM for high schoolers - now enrolling🧑‍💻💻

[Amy Robinson]

Good Morning, 

Enrollment has opened for our 2026 Joy of Coding online courses, specially created by the University of Michigan Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for high schoolers who want to experience first-hand the power and thrill of coding computers, including AI, to do amazing things.

These days, almost all STEM fields, not just Computer Science, use coding and AI as a means to instruct the computer to "do more" cool stuff e.g., designing vaccines, programming robots and driverless cars, inventing apps to detect and diagnose diseases in humans, animals and plants and so on.  

Via our Joy of Coding initiative, over 5000 students, from 50 states and 26 countries have taken our college-level, high-school-student-accessible Intro to coding, AI and data science courses.  These courses are offered in a learn-at-your-pace, online, fully instructor-supported format.

• Intro to Coding and Computational Thinking course is ideal for beginners with no prior coding background who want to experience the power of coding firsthand.
• Intro to Data Visualization and AI course is a perfect follow-up for students with prior coding experience (such as our Intro to Coding Course or AP Computer Science) who want to learn how AI works to ultimately train, evaluate and improve their own AI
• Intro to Training, Evaluating and Fine-tuning an AI offers an excellent introduction to students who have completed the data and visualization and AI course on how modern AI systems learn from data.

Looking for students 13+ that have taken high school algebra who:

• Enjoy the logic in math,
• Love solving problems creatively and
• Are willing to reach out for help to our team of coaches when stuck - everyone gets stuck somewhere when learning something new!

Students may begin courses any time after June 17, 2026, and complete them at their own pace by August 28, 2026.  Each course requires about 4–6 hours per week.

The cost is $149 + tax per course; need-based financial aid is available.

 
To receive priority consideration, apply by May 31, 2026 on our website.

To learn more about the initiative and the prior successes, please visit this link. Also linked is a Professor's note. 

Included is a flyer and other key details about the course. For further questions, please email joyof...@umich.edu.