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Small-group AI programs for kids and teens ages 8 to 18, where students finish with something real they built and can explain.
Weekend camps run year round, with intensive sessions over the summer break. Weekday evening sessions from 5pm are coming soon.
Weekend camps are open for enrollment now. Same curriculum, same instructors, same group size, whichever week you take.
Year round, with intensive sessions June through August
Focused blocks across two or three weekends, so a student goes from a blank page to a finished project without it dragging across a term. Over the summer break the same programs run as intensives, and those groups fill first.
Apply for a weekend campWeekday evenings from 5pm, coming soon
Weekday evening sessions starting at 5pm are planned and not open for enrollment yet. If term-time evenings would suit your family better, apply for a weekend camp and say so, and we will contact you when a weekday group forms.
Every one ends with a finished thing your child can open and show someone.
Ages 8 to 14
Write and illustrate original stories with AI as a creative partner.
Ages 12 to 18
Build simple apps and websites by learning to direct AI, not just use it.
Ages 12 to 18
Come up with an original game idea and guide AI to build it, then iterate until it's actually fun to play.
If what you need is a week of full-day coverage, a day camp is the right choice and we will say so. Ours are short focused blocks, 8 to 12 hours in total, run in groups capped at 10.
That is a deliberate trade. The thing we teach is judgment about what AI gives back, which comes from a mentor watching how a student works and intervening in the moment. It does not improve by adding hours to the day.
Questions about formats, dates, and cost. Course-level questions are answered on each program page. Anything else, email us.
Yes. We run intensive sessions June through August, and the same three programs run through the rest of the year as well. Dates are set once a group fills, so applying early is what gets you the week that suits your family.
Not yet. Weekday evening sessions from 5pm are planned and not open for enrollment, so if that is what you need, apply and tell us and we will contact you when a weekday group forms. What is running now is weekend camps, which cover the same three programs.
No, and that is deliberate. Ours are short, focused blocks of 8 to 12 hours, because the skill we teach is judgment about AI output, and that does not improve by keeping a 12-year-old in a room for eight hours.
Ages 8 to 18. Storybook takes ages 8 to 14. Vibe Coding and Game Design take ages 12 to 18. Each group is capped at 10 students so nobody is carried along by the room.
Both, and neither exactly. Students do build software and games, so the technical work is real. But the subject being taught is how to direct AI and judge what it gives back, which is a different thing from learning syntax. A student who finishes here can explain every decision in what they built.
Tuition is $100 per instruction hour, so a full program is $800 to $1,200. The code DIRECT30 takes 30% off for the first 8 students who enroll. There is no separate materials or registration fee.
In person in the Bay Area, currently South San Francisco and Stanford. There is no fixed campus: we set each cohort's venue once the group forms, based on where the enrolled families live.
No. Every program assumes none. Students bring a laptop, and they leave with the project and the files on it.
Groups are capped at 10 students, and dates and venue are set once a group fills. Summer sessions fill first.
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