Curate a week of AI news for students
Curation is a real job skill: follow a fast-moving field and explain what matters to a specific audience. Track AI news for 5 days, compare your picks with an AI’s, and publish a sourced 5-item digest explaining why each story matters to students.
Posted by The AI Internships
The work brief
- 01For 5 days, spend 15 minutes daily scanning AI news (newsletters, YouTube tech channels, Google News). Keep a raw log — even the boring days.
- 02Shortlist 5 developments that genuinely affect students: new free tools, exam/edtech changes, jobs news, or launches relevant to your country or region.
- 03Ask an AI for its own top 5 student-relevant AI stories of the week, compare against your shortlist, and verify anything you adopt.
- 04For each: 2-3 lines of what happened, a source link, and why a student should care — in your words.
- 05Rank them: which ONE matters most, and what should a student do about it this week?
What you’ll produce
Submission standard
Submit your daily raw log, the 5-item digest with source links (paste URLs in the text), your top pick with the link we can verify, and the recommended action. Include your AI workflow — the prompts you used to challenge your shortlist and what you adopted or rejected. Add the share link to your AI shortlist-comparison chat, and date every entry in your 5-day log.
Your 5-day raw log (date, what you scanned, what you noted)
Date every entry; five distinct days of scanning, including the boring days — not one retrofitted session.
Written responseRequiredThe 5-item digest: what happened, source URL, why a student should care
Written responseRequiredLink to the source for your #1 pick
Public linkRequiredYour #1 pick: why it wins, and what a student should actually do this week
Written responseRequired
You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.
What you must submit as proof
This brief requires evidence an AI can’t fabricate.
Share link to your AI shortlist-comparison chat
A public share link to the chat where the AI gave its own top-5 and you challenged your shortlist against it.
Public linkRequired
Submissions without this evidence cannot be submitted.
Protect other people in your proof. Blur faces, names, phone numbers and email addresses before you upload, and refer to anyone you worked with by role or number ("Listener 1", "the stall owner"). Your proof is only ever used to check your work — it is never published, never appears on your certificate, and is never shown in your public portfolio.
How your work is evaluated
The passing benchmark is 70/100.
Real tracking
29%The raw log reads like 5 real days of scanning, not one retrofitted session.
Curation judgement
29%The 5 picks are recent, relevant to students, and well-sourced.
Own voice
14%"Why care" lines are the student’s thinking, not paraphrased headlines.
Five real days, verifiable picks
29%Auto-fail if the log reads as one sitting, if picks/links are stale or broken, or the AI-comparison chat is missing.
How we grade your AI usage
Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.