An AI studio for schools

Less reading about AI.
More building real tools.

Second Bell Studio runs small, hands-on cohorts that get teachers and students building working tools with AI — live, in a small group, and yours to keep. This summer, pick your door.

For teachers

Build with AI

A hands-on cohort where you build a real classroom tool from scratch — no coding experience needed — and keep it. Four weekends, live, small group.

$595 foundingOpens June 22 Explore the teacher cohort For students 14–18

Summer Build Studio

Six weeks with a 1:1 mentor. Ship a real app at a public URL — and learn the words to talk about it for portfolios, the Common App, and interviews.

$1,100 founding8 seats · Jul 7 Explore the student cohort
the second bell means — get to work
Teacher cohorts·Student cohorts·School partnerships·You own what you make
For schools

For institutions ready to make this stick past one workshop.

The cohorts are this summer's product. For schools that want it to last, we run an annual Faculty + Stack Partnership — faculty build cohorts on your calendar, a plain-English AI policy your community can actually read, and quarterly stack audits of what AI is in use, what it costs, and what's risky.

See the partnership
The build wall

This isn't theory. These are real, shipped tools.

Nine working tools, built by a teacher and shipped into real classrooms — extensions, web apps, automations, a desktop app. Cohort readers see what they'll be able to build; schools see what we can build and run.

Extension Better Feedback Web app Canvas Quiz Generator Extension Gradebook Enhancer Automation Canvas → Sheets Web app Reflection Wall Web app APES Simulations Desktop Secure Browser Automation Pro Sort Extension Page Punch
See the full build wall

your build can hang here too →

From the founder
Chris Meehan, founder of Second Bell Studio
"I kept watching good ideas die in the gap between 'wouldn't it be cool if' and 'okay, but who builds it.' Second Bell Studio is the studio I'd have wanted as a teacher — and as the student who already had the idea but didn't yet know how to ship it."
— Chris Meehan Working teacher & active developer · AP Environmental Science + Academic Technology Director

The honest part.

we'd rather under-promise.

No admissions promises.

We won't claim a cohort transforms student outcomes or selective admissions.
No “district transformation.”

One working tool, one shipped app. That's the scope — on purpose.
No certificate as an outcome.

An honest completion letter with your contact hours. That's it.
No platform to rent.

The deliverable is yours. There's no LMS to log into forever.