Code the Understand AI
See how AI finds patterns, makes predictions, and why its answers can still be wrong.
Fall 2026 · Louisville · Ages 8–11
Build with AI before it starts feeling like magic.
A hands-on Louisville program where older kids use real AI, practice judgment, and create things they are proud to explain.
What learners practice
Curiosity becomes practical judgment.
Game-like online missions pair with small-group sessions led by an industry operator and shaped with a child psychologist. No coding experience is required.
Give clear directions
Write useful instructions, test the result, and improve prompts that do not work yet.
Check the answer
Spot weak, wrong, or misleading output instead of accepting it because a computer produced it.
Use it responsibly
Practice privacy, fairness, attribution, and healthy boundaries with modern tools.
See modern coding
Learn how clear goals, testing, iteration, and human decisions turn ideas into working projects.
Build something real
Create with AI, explain the choices behind the work, and share the finished project with confidence.
Four-module program
From “what is AI?” to “look what I built.”
What Is AI?
Patterns, predictions, useful questions, and the first habits of checking an answer.
AI & Our World
How AI shows up around us, who makes decisions, and where privacy, fairness, and responsibility matter.
How Coding Got Done
How software is planned, built, tested, and improved—and what changes when AI joins the process.
Build Your Own
Turn an idea into a creative project, refine it with feedback, and prepare to explain it on Demo Day.
How the program works
Learn, meet, improve, share.
Complete missions
Work through twelve focused missions per module at home, released in manageable waves with visible progress.
Meet in Louisville
Bring the ideas into a Saturday library lab for guided practice, collaborative challenges, and live building.
Test and improve
Use feedback, check the work, and make deliberate choices instead of settling for the first result.
Share the build
Finish with Demo Day: explain what was made, how it changed, and what the learner decided along the way.
Fall 2026 schedule
A clear path to Demo Day.
The online program opens first, followed by three Saturday library labs and a final showcase.
Program opens
Builders begin the online missions at home.
Library lab one
Saturday session from 10 AM–12 PM.
Library lab two
Saturday session from 10 AM–12 PM.
Library lab three
Saturday session from 10 AM–12 PM.
Demo Day
Builders share the projects and thinking behind their work.
Tuition
Choose one module or the full program.
One module
$75Per module
- Online missions for the selected module
- Related small-group library session
- A focused way to try the program
Four-module program
$225Full fall program
- All four learning modules
- Three Saturday library labs
- Demo Day on October 24
A refundable $10 deposit holds a place and is credited toward tuition.
Ready to explore?
Give curiosity something to build.
See enrollment details for the Fall 2026 ages 8–11 program in Louisville.