Turn Ideas Into AI-Powered Apps

Through design thinking, students identify meaningful problems in their community and transform them into portfolio-ready projects: such as AI-powered mobile apps, websites, or video games. Each project is guaranteed to launch in the app store, with support in developing original intellectual property and achieving ‘patent-pending’ status.

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Open to middle and high school students worldwide.

Discover What Matters, Bring It to Life

Want to tackle big challenges in healthcare, law, or sustainability, but not sure where to start? Or maybe you already have an idea and just need guidance to validate and launch it. With the mentorship and support in Nova AI Product Launch, you can turn your vision into a real app or AI-powered project and finish with a project that makes an impact: no coding experience required.

Nova mentors are from top 25 universities

You deserve world-class support to reach your full potential. That’s why every Nova mentor is a graduate candidate, professor, or alumnus of a top 25 university, including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. We want middle and high school students to create meaningful work that showcases their best selves.

The Nova AI Product Launch Guarantee

Every student leaves with something real: an AI-powered mobile app, web app, video game, or other AI product to proudly showcase. Mobile apps are guaranteed publication in the app store, and web apps are guaranteed to go live online.

Each invention includes built-in legal support and filing so that students’ inventions receive “patent-pending” status.

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Student Projects Showcase

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AI Speech Coach for Public Speaking

An AI-powered speech training app that helps users practice and improve public speaking with real-time feedback and personalized coaching. Using speech recognition and natural language processing, it analyzes pacing, tone, clarity, and filler words—then delivers instant tips for improvement. Features include practice modes for presentations and impromptu speaking, plus an interactive progress dashboard to track growth over time.Users can access speaking drills, review feedback, and build confidence as more effective communicators.

Personalized AI Tutor for Underserved Students

An AI-driven tutoring app that provides personalized learning support for students, especially in underserved communities. It uses NLP to break down complex subjects, offer step-by-step explanations, and create customized study plans based on student performance. The app includes speech-to-text and text-to-speech features for accessibility and a progress dashboard to track learning milestones. Students can also connect with volunteer mentors and peers for collaborative learning.

AI Environmental Impact Analyzer

Encourages users to make eco-friendly choices by scanning product barcodes to analyze carbon footprint, recyclability, and ethical sourcing. Using AI and machine learning, it suggests sustainable product alternatives, tracks carbon emissions, and provides real-time sustainability tips. Users can scan receipts and bills to monitor consumption patterns. The app promotes environmental awareness through personalized challenges to reduce waste and emissions.

Women’s AI Health
Companion

An AI-powered women’s health app that combines menstrual and mental health tracking with personalized care recommendations. It uses a generative AI assistant to provide cycle- and mood-based tips, and a smart provider match engine to connect users with nearby healthcare services based on symptoms, insurance, and availability. The app includes an integrated calendar that syncs cycle data, check-ins, and appointments into one visual timeline, helping women manage both physical and emotional health in a single hub.

Cultural Bias in Deep-Learning Models

Won: Washington State Science & Engineering Fair

This project investigated cultural bias in AI emotion recognition by training two ResNet-18 models, one on South Asian faces and the other on Caucasian faces. Each model misclassified emotions from the other group, but introducing a small proportion of cross-cultural images improved accuracy across demographics without reducing within-group performance, showing that modest data diversification can reduce bias in sensitive applications like healthcare, law enforcement, and education.

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The Ethics of Genetic Selection

Published in: Curieux Academic Journal

Emerging tools for genetic selection raise difficult ethical and social questions. Advocates see opportunities to lessen human suffering by reducing inherited conditions, while critics warn about reinforcing inequality and creating narrow definitions of genetic “normalcy.” Lessons from the history of eugenics illustrate the risks of exclusion and discrimination, and debates about disability highlight that quality of life is not easily defined. Access to genetic technologies is also shaped by socioeconomic inequality, adding another layer of concern. Responsible progress in this field depends on strong safeguards, inclusive decision-making, and a commitment to respecting human diversity.

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What Makes Nova AI Product Launch Different:

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What will your Nova Patent experience look like?

Nova Patent Program:

Results in a novel innovation (a mobile application or physical product) that makes a positive impact on the world and achieves "patent pending" status.

Build a mobile application or other software product with your team in an area you're passionate about

Achieves "patent pending" status

Select from a curated list of patentable projects

14 small 2-hour group classes

Maximum of 5 students to 1 mentor

3 sessions with a patent writing expert to support application writing and submission

2 - 4 months long depending on cohort

Nova Scholar Patent Pathway

The AI Product Launch program includes Patent Pathway, a selective track that pairs students with intellectual property specialists to explore patent protection.

What’s Included:

Expert Guidance → Up to 3 sessions with patent professionals experienced in youth innovation and early-stage IP.
Hands-On Support → Step-by-step help drafting and preparing provisional or design patent applications.
Prestige Credential → Guaranteed “Patent Pending” status, a unique distinction that strengthens college applications, competitions, and portfolios.