As part of the Siena Google AI Education Accelerator program, learners have access to the following self-paced, flexible programs. Whether you’re looking to enhance your current skill set, switch careers, or gain a competitive edge in the job market, these certificates will help you reach your goals – no prior experience required.

Google AI Essentials Specialization
What you will learn:
- Use generative AI tools to help develop ideas and content, make more informed decisions, and speed up daily work tasks.
- Write clear and specific prompts to get the output you want - you’ll apply prompting techniques to help summarize, create tag lines, and more.
- Use AI responsibly by identifying AI’s potential biases and avoiding harm.
- Develop strategies to stay up-to-date in the emerging landscape of AI.
This program consists of 5 self-paced courses:
Introduction to AI
What you'll learn
Define the field of AI
- Explain how AI functions at a basic level, including how AI technology is trained to learn from data
- Describe the capabilities and limitations of AI tools
- Recognize the importance of human oversight when using AI
Maximize Productivity With AI Tools
What you'll learn
- Recognize how generative AI can be used for several different workplace applications
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI for increased productivity and optimized work processes
- Evaluate whether generative AI is an optimal tool to apply to a specific task
Discover the Art of Prompting
What you'll learn
- Create prompts that provide clear and specific instructions for a variety of use cases
- Describe the role of writing effective prompts in producing generative AI output
- Apply specific prompting techniques, including few-shot prompting
Use AI Responsibly
What you'll learn
- Identify AI harms and their potential impact on users and social structures
- Recognize possible privacy and security repercussions of AI use
- Explain risks and biases that are inherent to modern AI and best practices for how to approach them
Stay Ahead of the AI Curve
What you'll learn
- Develop strategies to stay up-to-date in the emerging landscape of AI
- Evaluate additional AI tools and their potential for future application in the workplace
- Describe a variety of innovative ways AI has been integrated into the workplace
Google Prompting Essentials Specialization
What you'll learn
- Practice using 5 steps to write effective prompts
- Apply prompting techniques to help you with every-day work tasks
- Use prompting to speed up data analysis and build presentations
This program consists of 4 self-paced courses:
Start Writing Prompts like a Pro
What you'll learn
- Define prompting in reference to generative AI tools
- Recognize and apply the prompting framework (task, context, references, evaluate, iterate) to create effective prompts
- Understand the importance of evaluating outputs and refining prompts as key to receiving the outputs you want
Design Prompts for Everyday Work Tasks
What you'll learn
- Apply the prompting framework to draft text content, help with brainstorming, create tables and timelines, and summarize lengthy text
- Apply prompting strategies to adjust the particular tone and style of text output
- Understand the benefits of long context windows
Speed Up Data Analysis and Presentation Building
What you'll learn
- Apply the prompting framework to extract insights from data, identify and fix spreadsheet formulas, and explore data visualization
- Develop a responsible prompting practice when entering data into generative AI tools
- Understand AI sampling parameters, how they work, and strategies for their use
Use AI as a Creative or Expert Partner
What you'll learn
- Understand and apply prompt chaining, including chain of thought prompting, for complex tasks
- Understand prompt versioning and the benefits of saving and reusing your prompts over time
Google AI Professional Certificate
In this program, you’ll deep dive into AI through practical activities designed for real workplace tasks. You’ll learn how to use generative AI to sharpen your strategy, streamline repetitive tasks, and create custom tools unique to your work. You’ll also leave with a portfolio of AI projects to show off your new skills.
After completing the program, you will be able to:
- Use expert prompting and responsible judgment to apply AI confidently.
- Strengthen your professional skills by using AI to generate plans, tailor content, and analyze data.
- Build your own personal suite of reusable AI assets during 20+ hands-on activities.
- Create functional apps for your workflow through vibe coding.
- Become more productive by chaining tasks into powerful, time-saving AI workflows.
This program consists of 8 self-paced courses:
AI Fundamentals
Establish your foundation of AI expertise. Learn how AI works, when and how to use it, and how to write prompts that deliver high-quality results.
- Learn how generative AI works, and develop a practical understanding of how you can use AI in a professional setting.
- Practice building prompts using a structured framework that can improve the quality of the AI responses you receive.
- Understand how and why AI may produce inaccurate or biased results, to ensure you can use the technology responsibly and ethically.
- Examine your day-to-day responsibilities to find practical ways to integrate AI into your workflows.
AI for Brainstorming and Planning
Learn to use AI as a thought partner to map out project phases, establish realistic timelines, and organize your initial ideas into a cohesive strategy.
- Collaborate with AI to inspire new ideas and build on existing thoughts, helping you move past a blank page and into a creative flow.
- Analyze and rank your ideas by applying AI to test them against specific goals, ensuring your focus stays on the highest-impact work.
- Examine your roadmap for hidden risks, using AI to help spot dependencies and prepare for challenges before they impact your plans.
- Organize assets into a unified resource using Gemini Notebook, building a project hub that helps your team stay aligned and informed.
AI for Research and Insights
Practice using AI as a research partner, its research capabilities to summarize complex topics and pressure-test ideas for better decision-making.
- Try compiling customized reports using Gemini Deep Research, creating comprehensive summaries that help you uncover actionable insights in less time.
- Build a centralized research hub in Gemini Notebook, using AI to summarize your documents and highlight key themes across your regular workload.
- Collaborate with Gemini as a thought partner, gaining fresh perspectives and new angles to strengthen your day-to-day responsibilities.
- Examine AI findings by verifying data against original documents, ensuring all responses are grounded and support responsible AI use.
AI for Writing and Communicating
Learn to refine rough drafts into polished communication, using AI to tailor your style for different audiences and test different perspectives.
- Summarize meeting notes with Gemini in Google Meet, turning long discussions into clear action items to help keep your regular work on track.
- Refine your work by asking Gemini to provide critical feedback and prepare for peer and leadership reviews.
- Create tailored documents with Gemini Canvas, tailoring your communication to fit specific personas and styles for your role.
- Explore different communication strategies by simulating workplace scenarios and role-playing conversations with Gemini Live.
AI for Content Creation
Collaborate with AI as a creative partner, using Gemini to help produce high-quality images, videos, and professional presentations..
- Experiment with turning early concepts into visual assets, using image and video models to help bring your creative vision to life.
- Create engaging visual presentations from basic slide decks, using Gemini to help make your communication more compelling.
- Standardize your creative process by setting custom guidelines, ensuring AI-generated content stays aligned with your brand.
- Pressure-test your creative assets by using AI for feedback, identifying specific improvements to help you meet your professional design goals.
AI for Data Analysis
Transform messy data into clear insights, using Gemini in Sheets to help clean and analyze information throughout your workflows.
- Review your business goals with AI to identify the appropriate success metrics, helping you measure performance more effectively in your role.
- Practice reformatting messy information with targeted prompts, turning unstructured data into an organized table in Google Sheets.
- Collaborate with Gemini to build spreadsheet formulas, using natural language to help streamline complex calculations in your projects.
- Create clear data visualizations with AI, helping you share evidence-based trends and insights with your team.
AI for App Building
Vibe-code custom apps with everyday language, instructing AI to build practical tools that help you expedite repetitive parts of your workload.
- Review your workflows to find opportunities where a custom AI solution can solve unique challenges in your role.
- Practice using vibe coding to translate plain instructions into web apps, helping you create functional tools for your work.
- Collaborate with AI to diagnose and fix technical issues, ensuring you can build stable prototypes to support your projects.
- Develop scalable custom solutions using AI Studio, gaining the confidence to build more sophisticated tools throughout your work.
AI for App Deployment
Dive deeper into vibe coding and learn how to build custom, time-saving tools from scratch—and confidently share them with anyone.
- Brainstorm ideas, organize them into a plan, and uncover hidden flaws with AI to ensure your app has a solid foundation.
- Use AI to easily troubleshoot and fine-tune your app. Identify weak spots and fix them fast, so your tool works exactly how you want it to.
- Make your app user-friendly, add clear user instructions, and easily manage access so approved users can use your custom solution safely.