AI for Girls

IN COLLABORATION WITH NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC

Our Empower: AI for Girls course has successfully been running every term at Ngee Ann Polytechnic for the past few years, giving girls from all polytechnics the opportunity to learn basic skills in AI.

Learning Model

  • Self-directed learning for 9 weeks + 10th-week Capstone project presentation.

  • A fixed set of 5 modules to go through at the same starting point. Students are free to advance as quickly as they want.

  • Optional modules at the back for students to go through if they have completed the fixed set of modules

Learning Outcomes

Encourage the girls to learn and grow as far as they can go in the area of Data Analytics, namely to

● Understand a business problem

● Know how to handle and manipulate data

● Perform exploratory data analysis

● Be able to interpret and perform data visualization

● Know fundamental Machine Learning models to solve different problems

● Appreciate the opportunities and challenges of applying AI in real life.

Curriculum

MODULES

  • Introduction to Python

  • Intermediate Python for Data Science

  • Pandas Foundation

  • Introduction to Data Visualization with Python

  • Supervised Learning with scikit-learn

  • (Optional) Unsupervised Learning in Python

  • Capstone Project

Week 1-4

Week 5-10