Cohort 1 sold out Cohort 2 now enrolling · limited spots
In just two weeks, students build a real app with AI and walk away with portfolio proof for college apps and beyond.
first app
first agent
demo day
What You'll Build
Every student picks an idea and ships it for real — something they'll actually use, something their friends will want, something they can send a link to. By demo day it's live, working, and theirs. Pick from ideas like these, or bring your own:
Upload a textbook chapter and let an AI walk you through problems the way a patient older sibling would. Custom prompt, your voice, your subject.
An assistant that runs polls, picks the next game night movie, summarizes the chat, and roasts whoever's lowest in Fortnite. (Optional roast.)
A scheduled agent (built in Replit, powered by the OpenAI API) that checks your calendar, drafts your weekly emails, organizes your school files, and reminds you to start that essay before midnight.
Flashcards, quizzes, and spaced repetition generated from any PDF. Built with you, for you, deployed to a real URL you can send to your friends.
Mom's Etsy shop. Your dog-walking gig. Your sister's ceramics. A live site with a working contact form, an AI chat helper, and the option to wire up payments.
Script ideas, thumbnails, captions, and a calendar of what to post when — generated by an agent the student builds. Creative direction is still theirs. The grunt work isn't.
The Curriculum
Camp covers grades 7–11 (ages 13–17), which is a real range. We pace by what each student needs — faster builders pick up bonus moves, but everyone hits demo day with a tool that works. A 7th grader building their first AI tool is the same win as an 11th grader building a polished app.
Week 1
From zero to a working AI tool you can demo. By the end of week one, every student has something running on their machine that solves a problem they actually have.
Week 2
Sharpen what matters, make it run on its own, and ship it to real people. Prioritize features, add automation, handle the ethics, and write your pitch. End the week demoing live to parents and a panel of judges.
Want the full day-by-day plan? Read the detailed curriculum →
The Schedule
Live, online, and small. Weekday sessions are short and focused (1 hour). Weekend sessions are longer build sprints (2 hours) with built-in office hours.
Samidha — your instructor
Meet Your Instructor
Samidha is a senior product manager and software engineer with over a decade in tech, including Microsoft, Lyft, and Affirm. She holds a B.S.E. (Bachelor of Science in Engineering) in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies of her own.
She has also taught an Entrepreneurship 101 class to high schoolers, coaching them through launching their first real businesses — so she knows how to meet teenagers where they are and push them to ship something they're actually proud of.
She started AI Builders Camp because the gap she saw widening fastest wasn't between kids who code and kids who don't — it was between kids who use AI as a toy and kids who use AI as a tool. The second group is going to win the next decade. She wants to make sure your kid is in it.
Parents, read this
The kids who'll thrive in the next decade aren't using AI to write essays — they're using it to build things. Real projects, real code, real GitHubs. AI Builders Camp is how we set your kid up to thrive in the years ahead.
College admissions offices are seeing AI-generated essays in unprecedented volume. What they're not seeing enough of: kids who can build with AI. A real shipped project, a GitHub history, a demo video — these are the new differentiators.
Two focused hours a day in a small live cohort, building something tangible. No passive scrolling, no algorithm. Your kid leaves the session with code they wrote, not content they consumed.
1:10 student-to-instructor ratio, instructor-led. No teaching assistants, no scaled curriculum machine. Samidha knows every camper's project by name and where they're stuck.
Every student leaves with a working AI-powered tool they built, a deployed bot or scheduled agent they can run live, and a polished demo video. Faster builders also publish a public GitHub repo and a live URL. Real artifacts, not certificates of completion.
At $399 $249 per camper
(early bird price), this is less than two sessions of
math tutoring. Infinitely more leverage. Two weeks of real building
with a senior engineer — small cohort, real project, real outcome.
Each cohort is capped at 10. Cohort 1 is sold out — Cohort 2 spots are first-come, first-served.
FAQ
No. The whole cohort works through the same eight sessions and every student ships a working tool by demo day. Students who already code (or move fast) pick up bonus moves — deeper UI, scheduled agents, public deploys — once they finish the day's goal. We do a short intake call to set expectations.
A laptop (Mac, Windows, or Chromebook — everything runs in the browser). Stable internet. Webcam. A Replit Core account (~$25/mo, parent-paid, can cancel after camp) for the IDE, AI assistant, and deployments. AI access is built into Replit — no separate API keys, no OpenAI account, nothing extra to configure. We send a setup guide to enrolled families the week before camp.
It's screen time the way piano lessons are screen time on a keyboard. Two structured hours of building with a real human instructor and a small cohort. Campers come out with code they wrote, not feeds they consumed.
A working AI tool they built (deployed on Replit, demo-able live), at least one deployed bot or scheduled agent, a 60-second demo video, and — if they finish bonus moves — a public GitHub repo and a live Replit URL. Plus the demo-day experience and a small alumni community.
Camp is led by Samidha Visai, a senior product manager and software engineer with a CS degree from the University of Michigan and 10+ years at companies like Microsoft, Lyft, and Affirm. Camera is on for the entire live session. Sessions are recorded and available to parents on request.
Every session is recorded and projects are scoped so campers can catch up on a missed day. We just ask that campers don't miss the kickoff (Day 1) or demo day (Day 8).
All sales are final. Space is limited, and once you've reserved a spot, we can't offer refunds. If we have to cancel for any reason, you get a full refund.
Replit Core (~$20/mo) is the IDE, agent, and deployment platform — campers code, run, and ship from one browser tab, on any laptop (including Chromebooks). The OpenAI API (parent-owned, parent-managed key with a $10/mo hard cap) powers the AI inside what they build. We picked this stack because it's the most seamless 13+ friendly path from idea to deployed product, and because parents stay in control of the account and the spend. The camp price covers instruction; tooling and API usage are owned and paid by parents.
Three layers:
Built-in guardrails. Students use OpenAI's models (gpt-4o-mini and gpt-4o) and ChatGPT, which have safety training built in — they refuse harmful content, won't generate inappropriate material, and can't be easily jailbroken. These guardrails are always on; we don't disable them.
Instructor review. Samidha reviews every student's project. Nothing gets published, deployed, or shared publicly without her sign-off.
Privacy by default. As part of pre-camp setup, parents disable model training in the OpenAI account settings — so conversations and API calls aren't used to improve AI models. We also teach students not to paste personal info (addresses, full names, school IDs) into AI prompts.
Every camper joins our alumni Discord (moderated) where they can keep building, get feedback, and hear about future cohorts and events. We're planning monthly drop-in build sessions throughout the school year.
Hit the Reserve button at the top to grab your spot. Have questions first? Use the form at the bottom of this page and we'll respond within 24 hours. Spots are first-come, first-served.
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Cohort 2 is now enrolling — limited spots at early-bird pricing.