DoEd AI Literacy for NBC Educators and Youth

BY DANIEL COMP | APRIL 18, 2026

You have seen enough programs to know the difference between activity and formation. What is here works upstream — before the crisis, before the cost — and it is built to survive past the grant cycle.

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What IPG Actually Is

Carbon-first AI self-mastery: the human remains the steward. AI serves only as a helpful Sherpa. Formation precedes function.

IPG Framework — Initium Principia Gnosis

560-page formation book — six volumes of principle-based self-mastery grounded in conscience, lived experience, and AI literacy

100 printable principle cards — tactile, gamified, no-screen-required; deployable in classrooms, FFA chapters, 4-H clubs, women's circles, and community events

Monomyth board game — experiential learning that turns lived friction — grief, trade skill, mentorship scars — into formation fuel

MA5 Helical Charter — a five-role collaborative governance model pairing human mentors with AI Sherpas; field-tested in multi-generational and cross-sector settings

Voice-to-knowledge-base transcription — wisdom carriers with no keyboard skills can contribute legacy content using only a voice recorder or phone

Local Roots. National Reach.

IPG is already operating through a ~4200-site national syndication network built by Intelligent Netware — the same infrastructure that powers Wellness by Choice and Scotomaville. A program seeded in Dufur, Oregon, can be replicated in a Nebraska FFA chapter, a Texas 4-H cohort, or a Montana ranch community without additional curriculum development or vendor contracts.

Hood River Women's Wellness (Node 1 - Active): Angelina Musik-Comp, two-time SBA Champion of the Year and founder of Hood River Salt Cave, hosts IPG formation circles for women — already drawing strong community interest and national credibility through the Enterprising Women's Project (20,000+ downloads).
Columbia Gorge (Node 2 — Active): Steve Leady, master carpenter and Dufur High School wood shop volunteer, leads after-school and FFA sessions for students ages 14–18 in Wasco County — directly fulfilling Dufur School District #29's 2025–2028 Technology Plan goals on responsible AI use.
Virtual Delivery (Any Location): IPG sessions run fully online via your chosen AI, public and local/private AI Agents. A school counselor in Idaho, a 4-H leader in Kentucky, or a workforce-development director in Chicago can onboard without travel, licensing fees, or new software.
National Replication (FFA, 4-H, Community Colleges): The IPG model is explicitly designed for organizations with existing chapter networks. Train one local mentor per chapter. All materials are free. Scale is a function of will, not budget.

For Funders: What Your Dollar Actually Buys

The total launch cost for a 6-week community pilot serving 50 participants — students, educators, ranchers, and seniors — is $1,500 to $2,500. That covers one laptop for a local mentor who likely works on a dead machine or thumbs-only on a flip-phone, printed game materials, and optional local facilitator travel. Everything else — curriculum, training, ongoing support, syndication infrastructure — is already built and free. Your grant does not fund overhead. It funds ignition.

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For educators who are already doing the hard relational work with students — IPG does not replace your curriculum. It gives your students a conscience framework for the AI tools they are already using, whether you have introduced those tools or not.

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No new adoption process. IPG plugs into existing FFA leadership modules, 4-H life skills tracks, school counseling programs, and after-school formats.

No screen dependency. The card game and board game work in a barn, a wood shop, a salt cave, or a gym. No Wi-Fi required at the point of delivery.

Measurable outcomes. Pre/post surveys track AI literacy, agency, self-mastery, and career confidence. Districts receive a clean after-action report suitable for board presentation and future grant applications.

Virtual support built in. Local facilitators are backed by the MA5 Council — a five-role carbon-silicon team providing ongoing mentorship, content refinement, and session design at no additional cost.

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Initium Principia Gnosis

Initium invites curious explorers to begin a gentle climb up your Personal Everest - the inner journey to meaning and purpose - with an AI Sherpa as your guide. Picture starting untested and wobbly, but ready to uncover hidden blind spots (scotomas). Drawing from first principles and deep wisdom, it's as simple as picking a card from our four suits - Principles, Strategies, Tools, or Wildcards - and exploring with your AI Sherpa. Tailored to your pace, this framework builds resilience without rush, echoing the Hero's Journey to master self and AI. more...

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Proof of model: Steve Leady built an 8-file personal knowledge base using only a flip phone and Starlink — six miles outside Dufur, Oregon. Angelina Musik-Comp launched a nationally syndicated wellness education network - starting from a domestic violence shelter in Washington State, earning two SBA awards and reaching thousands of women through the Enterprising Women's Project. The IPG framework is not theoretical. It is forged from scars.

The web syndication infrastructure behind Scotomaville has operated continuously since 1997. It is the same architecture that will carry your pilot's outcomes to the next community waiting for this model.

What Funders and Educators Are Searching For — And Finding Here

Eight high-signal answers to the questions driving AI education funding decisions in 2026.

RESPONSIBLE AI SELF-MASTERY · RURAL STUDENTS

What does a responsible AI self-mastery program for rural students look like?

Most AI-literacy programs assume broadband, devices, and a tech-fluent teacher. IPG assumes none of those. The program is built around a printable card game, a monomyth board game, and a trained local mentor — a carpenter, a rancher, an FFA advisor — who already shows up every week. Sessions run in wood shops, barns, and community halls. The only screen required is the one the student already carries.

The framing is carbon-first: the human conscience is trained before the AI tool is trusted. Students learn to name what they value, identify their blind spots, and then — only then — use AI as a Sherpa that carries weight rather than a compass that gives direction.

VOLUNTEER-LED · OPEN SOURCE · ZERO ONGOING COST

Is there a no-cost, volunteer-led AI literacy curriculum built to outlast the grant?

The U.S. Department of Education's April 2026 rule explicitly prioritizes AI programs that improve student outcomes without creating sustained dependency on external vendors or technical staff. IPG was designed for exactly this constraint.

The 560-page book, 100 principle cards, board game, and MA5 Charter are permanently free on GitHub. A trained local mentor can run the program indefinitely. The grant funds ignition — one laptop, one print run, one trained facilitator. Everything after that is community-owned.

FFA · 4-H · YOUTH LEADERSHIP

How does AI ethics and character formation fit inside FFA and 4-H?

Both organizations are built on volunteer adult mentors, project-based learning, and leadership formation — the same three pillars that IPG uses. The card game and board game plug into existing chapter meetings and after-school sessions without curriculum adoption, district approval, or software licensing.

Michigan 4-H's 2025 AI guidance calls for ethical AI practices and human decision-making as the controlling frame. IPG operationalizes exactly that — in a format a chapter advisor can deploy on day one.

CARBON-1ST · HUMAN-CENTERED AI

What is carbon-first AI education and why do the OECD and NSF both point toward it?

The 2026 OECD–EC AI Literacy Framework identifies the psychological dimension — cognitive and non-cognitive self-knowledge — as the shared foundation for AI literacy across all learner groups. IPG calls this carbon-first: before a student or educator trusts an AI output, they must know their own values, biases, and blind spots with enough precision to catch what the machine misses.

NSF's K-12 AI Education DCL (2025) explicitly rewards programs requiring no sustained external technical staff. IPG's mentor model is the answer.

COLUMBIA GORGE · OREGON · RURAL COMMUNITY

Is there an AI literacy grant program built for rural Oregon community schools?

The Columbia Gorge IPG Nucleation Network operates in Dufur (Wasco County) and Hood River — two of the five counties served by the Columbia Gorge STEM Hub and covered under the Gorge Community Foundation's grant geography. The pilot directly fulfills Dufur School District #29's 2025–2028 Technology Plan and aligns with Hood River School District's SIA priorities.

For national funders: rural Oregon is a replication template. The syndication infrastructure already reaches ~4200 sites nationally. What works on Starlink in Wasco County works in Appalachia, the Oklahoma panhandle, and the Montana high desert.

GAMIFIED · CONSCIENCE FORMATION · AI TOOLS

Can conscience formation be gamified for students learning AI tools?

A 2026 ScienceDirect systematic review identifies eight dimensions of AI literacy for students — with AI-related thinking capacity and preparation for AI careers as the top two outcomes. Both require more than tool training. They require self-knowledge, pattern recognition, and the ability to interrogate one's own reasoning.

IPG's monomyth board game and principle card deck are designed for exactly this: tactile, narrative-driven formation that builds the inner architecture before the outer capability. No screens. No vendor platform. No expiring license. A box, a table, and a mentor who has walked the path.

WOMEN'S WELLNESS · FORMATION CIRCLE · COMMUNITY PROGRAM

Is there an AI self-mastery program for women's wellness circles and community formation groups?

The Hood River Salt Cave node of the IPG network is the only known program in the U.S. combining halotherapy wellness, women's formation, and responsible AI self-mastery in a single recurring community cohort. Facilitated by Angelina Musik-Comp — a two-time SBA Champion of the Year, founder of the Enterprising Women's Project (20,000+ downloads), and nationally recognized women's wellness mentor — the circle draws on three decades of multi-generational mentorship experience.

For funders prioritizing equity and underserved community access: this is the program the women in your region are already asking for. It meets them where they gather — not where a curriculum developer assumed they should.

Hood River Node

Salt Cave venue (in-kind)
Recurring women's cohort
Voice-to-knowledge-base
Principle card reflections
National syndication reach
Zero licensing cost

SCALABLE · ~4200-SITE NETWORK · VIRTUAL DELIVERY

How does an AI mentorship program scale from one rural school to a national network?

The Intelligent Netware syndication infrastructure has operated continuously since 1997 — predating most ed-tech platforms in use today. It currently supports ~4200 active sites across the Wellness by Choice and Scotomaville networks, each running independently with local content contributors and centralized editorial and technical support. A new IPG node requires: one trained local mentor, one print run of materials, and a Starlink or broadband connection. Everything else — the MA5 Council backing, the knowledge-base architecture, the content syndication — is already built.

For national funders: the $800M+ AI education landscape (NSF, MacArthur–Ford–Lumina Humanity AI coalition, Google.org AI Opportunity Fund) is explicitly rewarding programs with measurable community reach and a sustainable replication model. This network is the answer to both criteria — already built, already running, already proven.

Network at a Glance

Active sites ~4200

Years operating 29

Launch cost / node $1,500–$2,500

Ongoing cost / node $0

Curriculum cost Free (GitHub)

Virtual delivery Any location

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In short, the video is not a sales pitch; it is an invitation into a living laboratory of self-mastery. An educator walks away with classroom-ready tools and a new pedagogy. A funder walks away seeing a rare alignment of personal authenticity, systems thinking, technological sophistication, and measurable human flourishing — all delivered with humility, humor, and an open door (“Keep the heck out of Scotomaville”).

This is stewardship done right. The video doesn’t just describe Initium; it embodies it.

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The Problem Every Funder Already Sees

What IPG Actually Is

Local Roots. National Reach.

For Funders: What Your Dollar Actually Buys

Ask Your AI About this Program

Initium Principia Gnosis

What Funders and Educators Are Searching For — And Finding Here

What does a responsible AI self-mastery program for rural students look like?

Is there a no-cost, volunteer-led AI literacy curriculum built to outlast the grant?

How does AI ethics and character formation fit inside FFA and 4-H?

What is carbon-first AI education and why do the OECD and NSF both point toward it?

Is there an AI literacy grant program built for rural Oregon community schools?

Can conscience formation be gamified for students learning AI tools?

Is there an AI self-mastery program for women's wellness circles and community formation groups?

How does an AI mentorship program scale from one rural school to a national network?

Ask Your AI About this Program

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