No-cost pilot · Virginia schools

Try the curriculum for one semester. Pay nothing.

From Sand to Agents is aligned to Virginia CS SOL and VDOE AI guidance. The free pilot is one school, one grade band (K-2, 3-5, or 6-8; high school is not included), for one semester. Use it in class, after school, or as send-home work. During the pilot, the school may post pilot PDFs on a school-controlled site for its own community (staff, students, and families). If the pilot ends without a paid license, posted pilot PDFs must be taken down within 30 days.

What you get

Full band, one semester

  • One school, one grade band (K-2, 3-5, or 6-8; high school is not included), for one semester
  • Student lessons, teacher guides, assessments, and rubrics
  • Family letters and printable take-homes
  • Differentiation notes for IEP, 504, and ELL
  • Standards crosswalk you can verify — not hand-typed
  • No student accounts, no rostering, no student data collected

What we ask in return

Short feedback only

So we know whether the materials help in real divisions — not a research study, not a sales call.

  • 2–5 teachers: ~4-minute survey after units 2 and 4
  • One administrator: ~10-minute mid-semester check-in
  • Parents (optional): 2-question pulse if family letters go home

Forms: /feedback/pilot. No purchase order. No invoice. No auto-renew. If it is not useful, tell us — that answer helps too.

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Grade bands in this pilot

K-2Smart Machines Around Us
4 units · authored
3-5How Computers Think
4 units · authored
6-8The Machine Underneath
6 units · authored

High school is not included in this pilot. High school AI foundations (9-12) is authored and public at /c/ai-foundations.

See it before you decide

Preview the materials

Walk through a lesson, verify standards alignment, or read the pilot FAQ — no signup required.

How to start

Reply or write us

Reply to the Schoolhouse email you received, or write us with your division, the one school, the grade band (K-2, 3-5, or 6-8), and a teacher contact.

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