| # 📜 ZEN AI Co. / historic-proofs | |
| **Permanent Blockchain-Verified Dossier: The ZEN AI Pioneer Program** | |
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| ## 🌍 Overview | |
| This repository preserves the **ZEN AI Pioneer Program**, the **first verifiable youth AI literacy initiative in U.S. and world history** (2023–2025). | |
| - **Historic milestone**: Guided students as young as **11 years old** to build and launch **cloud-hosted AI applications**. | |
| - **Verified proof**: Anchored to the **Bitcoin blockchain** using [OpenTimestamps](https://opentimestamps.org). | |
| - **Public permanence**: Cross-archived on [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/the-zen-ai-pioneer-program-historic-first-in-yout), Zenodo (DOI), and Web3 storage systems. | |
| - **Global expansion**: Reached **40+ states** and international learners with homeschool kits, cloud deployments, and blockchain credentials. | |
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| ## 📂 Files Included | |
| - **`The_ZEN_AI_Pioneer_Program.pdf`** | |
| → Official dossier documenting the origins, scope, and global impact. | |
| - **`The_ZEN_AI_Pioneer_Program.pdf.ots`** | |
| → OpenTimestamps proof file. Contains cryptographic commitments linking the dossier’s SHA-256 hash to a Bitcoin block. | |
| - **`hash.txt`** | |
| → Text record of the stamped SHA-256 hash: 534351e1f8a2c025c89eeac196f6314205699d1455ed382a3b2ca9755b410c1b | |
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| ## 🔑 Verification Workflow | |
| **1. Validate the blockchain timestamp** | |
| ```bash | |
| ots verify "The_ZEN_AI_Pioneer_Program.pdf.ots" | |