Shruti Dhariwal

Graduate Student
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  • Lifelong Kindergarten

PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab

Current: Building a new co-creative AI education and computing platform for young people (CoCo). Winner, 2024 Global Learning Tools Prize, supported by Gates Foundation, OpenAI, Ballmer Group, and others. Work featured in MIT News and EdSurge. Deeply care about designing technologies and experiences that support young people in Being. Creative. Together.—always, but especially in the era of AI.

Prior: LEGO Papert Fellow 2020-21; Learning Innovation Fellow 2017-18; Best paper award for master’s research work; Published work on new creative learning tools in several international conferences—IDC, C&C, CHI; Co-authored and co-led a $90K education innovation grant at MIT, among other initiatives.

Project Research

🎲 Little Language Models: Empowering Children to be Future AI Modelers

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within our CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Post Research

CoCo and MIT RAISE among 2023-2024 Tools Competition winners

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.
Project Research

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Post Research

Meet the 2020 LEGO Papert Fellows

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
Thesis Research

SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories

Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
Post Research

Shruti Dhariwal receives Best Short Paper Award at 2018 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference

Congratulations to Shruti Dhariwal on receiving the Best Short Paper Award at the 2018 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference.
Publication Research

BlockArt: Visualizing the 'Hundred Languages' of Code in Children's Creations

Shruti Dhariwal. BlockArt: Visualizing the 'Hundred Languages' of Code in Children's Creations. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C '19), San Diego, CA, USA. June 2019.