Now Enrolling · Fall 2026

AI Career
Workshop

A hands-on, 6-session program where students don't just use AI — they use AI to discover who they are and who they want to become. Powered by the NorthStar platform.

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✓ CPS-Approved Vendor
✓ Up to 25 Students
✓ Two Cohorts Available
🤖 Powered by NorthStar
Students build a real Career AI Bot — trained on their goals, strengths, and interests.
6
Hands-on sessions
25
Students per cohort
2
Cohorts available
1
Career AI Bot per student
Research-backed · CIDR Framework™ · Dr. Salena Burke, Ph.D.
97M
New AI jobs by 2025
65%
Students will work in jobs that don't exist yet
20+
Years of technology expertise
100%
Hands-on student creation
Student Outcomes

What Every Student Walks Away With

This isn't a lecture — it's a creative, personal, and technically rigorous experience designed for every student, not just the tech-savvy ones.

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Foundational AI Knowledge
Students learn how AI actually works — from machine learning basics to generative AI — in ways that connect to real life and real careers.
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Personalized Career Roadmap
Through AI-guided exploration, each student discovers career pathways matched to their unique interests, strengths, and values.
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A Custom Career AI Bot
Every student designs, builds, and showcases their own AI assistant — trained on their goals and capable of guiding their career exploration long after the program ends.
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Self-Discovery Skills
Structured reflection activities help students connect personal identity to professional possibility — building confidence alongside capability.
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Responsible AI Practices
Ethics, bias awareness, and responsible AI use are embedded throughout — not added on. Students graduate as thoughtful, critical technology users.
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College & Career Readiness
Every session aligns to CCR standards, STEM/CS exposure, digital literacy benchmarks, and social-emotional learning goals.
The Journey

6 Sessions. One Transformative Experience.

Each session builds on the last — moving students from understanding AI to creating with it, and finally, showcasing what they've built.

1
What Is AI?
Foundations, history, and how AI works — grounded in what students already experience every day.
2
Designing My Career AI Bot
Students plan their personalized AI assistant — its purpose, personality, and the career questions it will answer.
3
Building My Dataset
Curating the data that will power their Career AI Bot — exploring how AI learns from information.
4
Careers, AI & the Future of Work
Exploring how AI is reshaping industries — and the new career opportunities emerging because of it.
5
Building & Testing My Bot
Hands-on construction, testing, and refinement of the Career AI Bot on the NorthStar platform.
6
Career AI Bot Showcase
Students present their bots to peers and guests — celebrating their AI career journey and what they've created.
Why Choose Us

This Isn't a Career Day.
It's a Career Transformation.

See how the AI Career Workshop compares to traditional career programming — and why schools across Chicago are making the switch.

Traditional Career Day VS AI Career Workshop
Listen to guest speakers → Build a real Career AI Bot
Generic career information → Personalized career exploration tailored to each student
One-time event, quickly forgotten → Multi-session project with a lasting deliverable
Passive listening → Hands-on design, creation, and showcase
Career advice from adults → AI-powered self-discovery driven by the student
No standards alignment → Aligned to CCR, STEM, Digital Literacy, and SEL standards
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Students won't just use AI — they will use AI to better understand themselves and their future.

— Dr. Salena Burke, Ph.D.
Your Facilitator
Dr. Salena Burke, Ph.D.
Founder & President · Jerome Burke Foundation · Creator of the CIDR Framework™

Dr. Burke brings over 20 years of technology leadership and software development experience to every workshop — combined with groundbreaking Ph.D. research on how marginalized youth develop career identity in the age of AI.

Ph.D. Research: Designing Career Identity in the Age of AI: Reflective and Identity-Sensitive Mediation for Marginalized Youth
First Chicagoan, first Black graduate, and first woman to earn a Ph.D. from IIT Institute of Design
Jerome Burke Foundation: CPS-Approved Vendor
Technology executive, software developer, and dedicated educator
Now Enrolling · Fall 2026

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