Summer AI training sprint opens registration June 16 for small business owners, returning citizens, opportunity youth, educators, and career changers. Classes begin July 1.
History does not treat late adopters kindly. When the internet arrived in the 1990s, the communities that lacked access — whether from cost, infrastructure, or deliberate neglect — did not simply miss a convenience. They missed an entire economic era. The same pattern repeated with mobile technology, with e-commerce, with digital banking. In every wave of technological transformation, the communities that were last to enter paid a generational price. Artificial intelligence is the next wave. It is already here. And InnoPower.ai is not waiting.
Beginning July 1, InnoPower.ai launches its Summer AI Training Sprint — a structured, hands-on program designed to put real AI skills into the hands of Indianapolis residents who need them most. Registration opens June 16 and closes June 24. Seats are limited to 20-25 participants per cohort. Foundation and Fluency together total 16 hours of training, delivered in two-hour sessions three evenings per week — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. — with a final exam and capstone project required to earn certification. No prior technical background is needed. The only requirement is showing up.
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The curriculum is not theoretical. Participants move through the fundamentals of AI — how it works, its history, where it creates leverage, and where it fails — then into prompt engineering, the skill of communicating with AI precisely enough to produce genuinely useful results. From there, the training covers how to steer AI output, manage context and length, identify and avoid bias, apply responsible AI ethics, and deploy these skills creatively in real business and professional scenarios. A final capstone project closes the program, requiring each participant to demonstrate applied capability before certification is awarded. Participants leave not just knowing what AI is — they leave knowing how to use it, immediately, in their own work and lives.
InnoPower.ai’s focus is intentional. Small business owners who cannot afford to fall further behind their competitors. Returning citizens reenter a job market that has changed without them. Opportunity youth ages 16 to 24 who are building futures in a world shaped by AI. Professionals navigating career transitions who need new tools for new chapters. Educators in under-resourced schools who need automation skills to increase their own productivity and better serve their students. These are not fringe populations — they are the backbone of this city, and they are the ones the AI industry has consistently overlooked.
InnoPower.ai has already run this play. Thanks to funding from the Indianapolis African American Quality of Life Initiative in 2025, InnoPower trained 35 Master Trainers who each earned a CompTIA AI Literacy Master Trainer Certification. To pay it forward, each of them trained 20 community members — bringing 700 Indianapolis residents through structured AI training in just four months. Train the trainers, and the trainers do the work. InnoPower replicated that same model in Gary, Indiana, and Michigan City, Indiana. The demand this summer brought us back. Among all program completers, 60 percent gained promotions or new employment, 34 percent launched new businesses, and 20 existing businesses integrated AI into their daily operations. These outcomes did not come from passive learning — they came from a program that demands practice from day one.
For ten months, InnoPower.ai has been building exactly what Governor Mike Braun formalized this year with the launch of IN AI — a statewide initiative backed by the CEOs of the Indiana Corporate Partnership designed to make Indiana the most AI-ready state in the nation. The initiative’s goals are ones InnoPower.ai has been executing since last fall: empower Hoosiers with AI tools, drive productivity, create high-paying jobs, and position Indiana as a global leader in the AI economy. We are glad to see the state arrive at this conclusion. We have been holding this ground. With statewide leadership now aligned with the grassroots delivery infrastructure InnoPower.ai has spent ten months building, the goal of reaching every Hoosier who needs AI training is no longer a vision. It is a road map with two teams running the same play.
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For those who have already completed Foundation and Fluency training, the path forward is Build and Deploy — the next two levels of InnoPower.ai’s training system, covering AI automations, workflow design, and autonomous AI agents. These advanced tracks move participants from AI users to AI builders, equipping them to design systems rather than just operate them.
At the highest level of completion, participants are positioned to become what InnoPower.ai calls Knowledge Entrepreneurs — individuals who build ventures, services, and community programs from their expertise and intellectual assets rather than from physical products or capital. In an economy where knowledge is the most renewable resource available to any community, that is not an aspiration. It is a strategy.
For a select group that performs exceptionally in training, an additional 12-hour Master Trainer Track is available. Those selected commit to training 25 or more people in their communities within six months — multiplying the reach of every hour invested in their own development and extending InnoPower.ai’s ecosystem across Indianapolis and beyond.
Register now. Don’t wait for the next wave.
Registration for Foundation and Fluency runs from June 16 through June 24.
Classes begin July 1.
To secure your seat, complete the registration form HERE.
Visit InnoPower.ai or email info@innopower.ai.
