A free AI workshop in Chascomús teaches young people to use it for CVs and jobs: AI literacy reaches the neighborhood

By El Cronista (Chascomús) · November 8, 2026.

The municipality of Chascomús, in Buenos Aires province (Argentina), has launched a free workshop called "AI: ideas and prompts to boost your projects." It's aimed at young people between the ages of 15 and 24. A "prompt" is the text instruction given to an AI model to get a response.

According to the local outlet, the workshop is part of UNICEF's Municipio Unido por la Niñez y la Adolescencia (MUNA) program. It consists of four sessions and offers certification from UNICEF and the Fundación Chicos.net.

The format is hybrid: classes are held online, but participants attend at two in-person venues, Escuela Municipal N°1 and the Punto Digital in the 30 de Mayo neighborhood, where computers and internet access are provided. Registration remains open through an online form.

The content is practical. According to Enrique Inciarte, undersecretary for Education, Childhood and Youth, participants work on improving a résumé with AI, simulating job interviews and developing business ideas. The first session was an introductory talk on everyday uses of AI.

The article doesn't give figures for available places or enrollment, nor does it say which tools are used. That means we can't assess its real reach or its teaching quality. What we can assess is the approach.

**Our take.** What matters most isn't the size of the workshop but where it takes place. It's a mid-sized town, with venues that supply the equipment and connectivity, not a bootcamp in the capital. In general, the AI access gap will look like the earlier digital divide: those with devices, connectivity and guidance will get ahead. That's why initiatives that address physical access matter as much as the content.

We also think the focus on employability, through résumés and interviews, is the right one. In the short term, the labor transition will be tough, and young people looking for their first job are among the most exposed, because entry-level tasks are the most automatable. Teaching them to use AI as a tool for improvement, rather than just to fear it, gives them a concrete advantage.

There's an important caveat. Learning to polish a CV with AI is useful, but it's a skill that quickly becomes commoditized: if everyone does it, it stops setting anyone apart. The lasting value lies in judgment: knowing what to ask, verifying the answer and building your own projects. That's where the real potential of the entrepreneurship component lies, if it's covered in depth over four sessions.

In the long term, the underlying thesis is different: if AI leads to an abundance in which people choose work out of passion, the generation that is 15 today should reach that future knowing how to use these tools, not as spectators. A workshop like this won't change course on its own, but it's the kind of cheap, local social infrastructure that ensures the transition leaves no one behind. It remains to be seen whether it will be replicated and whether its results will be measured.