Ages 7 – 16 · Africa

Build a robot froma jerry can.

AI, robots, drones, three world languages — and your own little company — taught by seeing and doing, not by reading. You can start today with stones, bottle caps and your own two hands. No computer needed.

Zola, a friendly robot built from a jerry can, bottle caps and wire
Hi! I'm Zola. I'm made of rubbish — and I can think. Let's build you one.
See it work

Teach a machine, right now

This is exactly how real AI learns: you show it examples, it finds the pattern. Tap each thing to say whether you can eat it.

Tap a picture once for can eat, twice for cannot eat.

Examples taught: 0
Now the machine sees something new:
How it works

Start with nothing. Grow into everything.

Most courses assume you already own a robot. Ours doesn't. You climb three steps, and only move up when you're ready.

1
🪨 No device

Hands, stones & sand

Learn what an algorithm is by walking one. Sort bottle caps to learn how machines classify. Draw a drone's flight path in the sand. Costs nothing, teaches the real idea.

2
📱 Shared phone

One phone, many children

Block coding and language practice in a browser. Works on a borrowed phone, offline once loaded, designed for a small cracked screen.

3
🤖 Real kit

Motors, wire & wings

Build from salvage: a motor from a broken toy, a jerry-can chassis, a fan for lift. Then Python, then real robots and drones if you get access to them.

14 courses

Choose your adventure

Each course has 8 modules. Every idea is shown as a picture first, words second.

Why now — for parents and teachers

From 1 September 2025, Beijing made AI lessons compulsory in every public school — at least eight class hours a year, starting at age six. Primary pupils get experiential lessons, junior-secondary cognitive ones, senior-secondary practical ones.

These courses follow that same shape — experience first, then understanding, then building — but rebuilt for a child who may have no computer, no electricity at home, and one shared phone between six siblings. The idea does not require the equipment.

Sources: China's State Council English portal, and R&D World's reporting on the mandate. The unplugged method used in Phase 1 comes from CS Unplugged, developed at the University of Canterbury and used in classrooms worldwide.