AI Course for Kids & Teens Australia

Q: Is there an AI course for kids with no coding experience?

Yes. Most children have never written code before joining the Future AI Innovators Program, and they do not need to. They work with AI tools directly, build projects without writing code, and still finish with something that runs. Children who want to go further can continue into the Advanced AI Builders Program afterwards, which does use Python.

Q: Around 100 children may join. How can the group still be small?

The full program may have around 100 children, but your child is not sitting in a group of 100 for the entire morning. The first part of the session is taught by the lead teacher, with cameras and microphones normally off and support coaches monitoring questions. After a fifteen minute break, your child joins their regular coaching group of around 10 to 12 children, with the same coach throughout the program.

Q: What if my child does not like the program?

Tell us by the end of the second morning and we will give you a full refund. No complicated process and no questions asked.

Q: What do we need at home?

A suitable computer, an internet connection and the basic equipment listed in the Welcome Pack. On Day 2 your child trains a model using the webcam and several tools need a full browser, so a phone will not work and a tablet is not recommended. The program provides the required learning tools and accounts.

AI School Holiday Program for Kids & Teens Ages 8–17

Future AI Innovators is a live online AI course for kids and teenagers aged 8–17 across Australia. Designed for the January 2027 school holidays, the 10-morning program introduces artificial intelligence through hands-on projects, testing and responsible AI. Learners explore how AI learns, where it makes mistakes, how to ask better questions and how to build useful AI-powered projects. No previous coding or AI experience is required.

Future AI Innovators is delivered live online across Australia. Families can join from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and regional Australia.

Ages: 8 to 17, in Junior and Senior groups
Dates: 4 to 15 January 2027, ten mornings
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm AEDT, both age groups
Format: Live online, from anywhere in Australia
Live learning: 20 hours, including a small coaching group of 10 to 12 every morning
Experience: No coding experience needed
Price: $595 January launch price, GST included. Reserve for $99

Ten mornings. Ten things created.

10 Mornings of Hands-On AI Projects

Every morning ends with something your child has made, tested or improved. Here are three of the ten.

Day 2

Train an AI model

Teach an AI to recognise rock, paper and scissors using the laptop camera. Then try to confuse it, and work out why it got the answer wrong.

Day 7

Build an AI assistant

Create something useful for a real person they know. Then watch that person try it, without helping, and improve it from what they saw.

Day 10

Present a finished project

Build, test and present their own AI project at the Final Showcase, and explain what it does well and what it cannot do.

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About GIofAI

The Kids program is new. The organisation behind it is not.

GIofAI already teaches, speaks and works with professionals, learners and industry communities building practical and responsible AI capability. Future AI Innovators brings that experience into a program designed specifically for children.

What learners and industry leaders say about GIofAI

These are from adults at our professional programs and events. They are about GIofAI as an organisation, not about the children’s program, which starts in January 2027.

An industry leader

David Silverman, CEO of Quality People, on GIofAI. 3 minutes 19 seconds — **David Silverman on GIofAI** CEO, Quality People

A learner and a conference attendee

Surekha Gaikwad on how GIofAI's AI Engineering program accelerated her career. 2 minutes 43 seconds — **Surekha Gaikwad on learning with GIofAI** Graduate, GIofAI AI Engineering program

Devendra Singh on GIofAI's vision for the future. 2 minutes 23 seconds — **Devendra Singh on AI literacy** Business Architect · GIofAI Data + AI Conference 2025

More interviews and member testimonials are on the GIofAI channel.

And the things you can check for yourself

Published on AI adoption

Our founder, Sandeep Bhalekar, wrote The Blueprint for AI Adoption and Societal Transformation, published by Routledge.

In the National AI Centre directory

GIofAI is listed in Australia’s National AI Centre AI Directory. See the listing. A directory listing is not a government endorsement.

Child safety in writing

Our Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy, Code of Conduct, Privacy Notice and Approved Tool Register are published for any parent to read, before they enrol.

Checked before they teach

Adults working directly with children complete the required child-safety checks before they teach, including Working with Children Check verification and our Child Safe Code of Conduct.

See GIofAI beyond this page

Read our Child Safety Policy

Why it matters

Kids know how to open AI. That does not mean they know how to use it well.

AI can give them the wrong answer. It can do their homework instead of helping them learn. And children can share personal information without understanding where it goes.

We teach them something more useful than how to use a chatbot

Ask better questions, so they get something useful back
Check whether AI is right, instead of trusting it
Protect private information, and know what should never be typed in

Know when AI should and should not be used, including for schoolwork
Create with AI instead of simply copying from it
Keep thinking for themselves

Then they put those skills into practice by building their own project.

What comes home

What Your Child Builds and Takes Home

At the end of the program your child receives a collection of the work they created. You receive a branded PDF, a link to their work and their certificate, sent within two days of the final showcase. It gives your child something real to show for the program.

#	What they made	Made on	What it shows
01	AI Can / AI Can’t card	Day 1	What your child learned about what AI can and cannot do
02	Rock, Paper, Scissors AI model	Day 2	They train a simple model, then try to make it fail, so they see why AI does not always get things right
03	Five-Prompt Playbook	Day 3	Five examples of how to ask AI better questions and check the answer
04	One-page problem plan	Day 4	The problem your child wants to solve, and who they want to help
05	First working prototype	Day 4	Their first working version of a solution
06	AI Helper Map	Day 6	How their helper works, and where a person still needs to make the decisions
07	Second prototype	Day 7	A more complete version, built for a real person
08	User testing notes	Day 7	What they learned by watching someone else use what they created
09	Personal AI rules and Family AI rules	Day 8	Simple rules, written by your child, about how AI should be used at home and at school
10	Project one-pager and final presentation	Days 9 and 10	What they built, how it works, what problem it solves and what it cannot do. A recording only if you have given permission

Plus a Future AI Innovator Certificate from the Global Institute of Artificial Intelligence.

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A hands-on AI program for kids and teenagers

What Kids Learn in Future AI Innovators

Ten mornings. One main project. Something real to show at the end. Junior and Senior learners explore the same main ideas. The difference is in the tools, the level of difficulty, the length of each activity and how much independence is expected.

Days 1 to 3

Understand AI

Children start by learning what AI really is. Instead of being told how it works, they test it themselves. On Day 2 they teach an AI system to recognise rock, paper and scissors, then try to trick it into getting the answer wrong. That teaches them something important: AI learns from examples, and poor examples lead to poor results.

Days 4 to 5

Build something

Your child chooses a real problem. Something at school that wastes time, something a younger brother or sister struggles with, or something they wish worked better. Then they build the first version of their solution. On Day 5 they take part in a timed group challenge.

Days 6 to 7

Make it useful

Now they move from AI that only answers questions to AI that helps someone do something. They build a helper for a real person. Then that person tries it while your child watches. Where did they get confused? What did not work? Then they improve it. Building something is only the beginning. It also has to work for the person using it.

Day 8

Use AI safely and honestly

How to check whether information is true. How fake images and videos are made. What personal information should stay private. When AI can help with schoolwork, and when using AI becomes copying. Each child writes their own rules and takes them home so you can discuss them as a family.

Days 9 to 10

Finish and present

Children improve their project, test it and practise explaining it. On the final day they present what they created: the problem, their idea, how it works, what went wrong, what they changed and what it still cannot do. Parents are invited.

Your child makes something every morning

We do not want children sitting through ten days of presentations. Each major lesson ends with something practical: an AI model, a prompt guide, a project plan, a working prototype, an AI assistant, testing notes, responsible AI rules and a final presentation. All of it becomes their portfolio.

Inside the classroom · Day 2

Teach AI rock, paper, scissors

Your child uses the laptop camera to take pictures of rock, paper and scissors. The AI learns from these examples. Then your child tries to confuse it. Why do we do this? Because seeing an AI system make a mistake helps children understand why AI is not always correct.

Inside the classroom · Day 7

Build an AI assistant

Your child builds a helper for someone they know, then asks that person to try it. Your child watches without telling them what to do, and notices where the person gets confused. Then they improve the assistant. Something is only useful if another person can actually use it.

The ten days Every morning ends with something made, tested or improved

01What is AI? 02Rock, Paper, Scissors 03How to talk to AI 04Find a problem 05Challenge Day 06AI that can take action 07Build an AI Assistant 08Can you trust AI? 09Innovation Lab 10Final Showcase

View the full ten day plan, morning by morning

Day 01 · Mon 4 JanSetting up

What is AI?

What AI can do, what it cannot do, and why it sometimes makes mistakes. The difference between a machine that follows rules and one that learns from examples. No history lesson and no long list of technical words.

JuniorThey play rock, paper, scissors against a bot that follows rules, then against one that learns their habits. They lose to the second one. That moment teaches more than an hour of explaining.

SeniorThey break a model on purpose, find the point where it fails and write down what happened. It stops them treating whatever the screen says as the truth.

Today they also sign the Learner AI Agreement: no full names, school, address, medical or family details in anything they type. And if something on screen upsets them, say so straight away. Nobody is in trouble.

They makeAn AI Can / AI Can’t card, based on their own testing

Day 02 · Tue 5 JanThe morning it clicks

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Train a simple AI model, then try to confuse it. This is how a model actually learns: examples in, patterns out. Not magic and not a brain. Everything after this morning makes more sense because of it.

Both groupsThey hold up their hand and take twenty photos of rock, twenty of paper and twenty of scissors on the laptop camera. The AI looks at all sixty and learns which hand shape is which. It works, and they made it. Then they try to confuse it on purpose. A hand held sideways, a shadow across the palm, scissors half closed. Now it picks the wrong shape, and they can explain exactly why. That is how AI ends up making mistakes.

Senior, going furtherThey put numbers on it. Twenty hand shapes the model has never seen, a results table in a spreadsheet, and accuracy for rock, paper and scissors separately. That is testing, taught without ever using the word.

If a model only knows what it was shown, what happens when it is shown the wrong things?

They makeA working rock, paper, scissors model, plus a written explanation of how they confused it

Day 03 · Wed 6 Jan

How to talk to AI

How to ask better questions and check the answers. There are no magic words. There is structure: who it should be, what it needs to know, the job, the limits, an example. Then check what comes back.

JuniorThe coach types on a shared screen and the group directs. “That is not clear enough. What do we add?” Their hands-on time uses safe tools built for children. Children under 13 never type into an open chatbot. The pattern they learn is simple: goal, details, style, check.

SeniorTheir own logins, and a game we call Prompt Golf: reach a set result in the fewest clear instructions. Then the harder version, writing instructions that work for somebody else’s task.

You gave it your name and your school. Where did that go?

They makeA Five-Prompt Playbook recording each prompt before and after, what they changed and what they learned

Day 04 · Thu 7 JanBuilding starts

Find a problem

Choose a real problem that could be solved with AI. Half the morning works out the problem, half builds the first version. They learn what an AI app really is, as opposed to a chat window: something goes in, a model does something, something comes out, and a real person at the end needed it.

JuniorThey pick from our list of approved projects, interview each other to find the real user, then build something that notices and reacts. A sorting game, a quiz helper, or a tool that decides whether a lunch is healthy.

SeniorThey name the person it is for, the problem, what that person does now instead, and one way to tell whether it worked. Then they build a real app without writing code.

This is the morning the program becomes real for a child. Every child leaves with something that runs.

They makeA one-page problem plan and their first working prototype

Day 05 · Fri 8 JanWe email you tonight

Challenge Day

Work with others to solve a problem within a set time. Teams of three inside the coaching group, one clear brief, and a demonstration at the end of the morning. The brief is narrow on purpose: something at your school that wastes time, something that is hard for a younger child, something your grandparents find confusing. Narrow briefs get better ideas.

Junior25 minutes on the brief, 50 minutes building with a break, 30 minutes of demonstrations.

Senior30 minutes on the problem, 60 minutes building with a break, 25 minutes of demonstrations.

This morning runs the other way round: about half an hour together, then well over an hour in their own group, because you cannot build as a team over a broadcast. We also teach them how to give feedback: one thing that worked, one question, one idea.

They makeA team demonstration and a feedback sheet

Day 06 · Mon 11 JanA guest drops in

AI that can take action

How AI can do more than simply answer questions. Work out the goal, the steps, the tools, the checks, and where a person has to say yes. That last step is the whole point. A working engineer or designer joins for twenty minutes to talk about what they did with AI yesterday, and the children ask the questions.

JuniorThey map out a helper that plans a birthday party. What does it need to know? What can it decide by itself? What must it ask an adult first? Children are very good at this.

SeniorThey build a two-step process where the first step feeds the second. Then they break it, by giving it something it is not expecting.

Which step would you never let it do without asking you first?

They makeAn AI Helper Map, with the point marked where a person has to approve

Day 07 · Tue 12 JanThey test it on you

Build an AI Assistant

Create a useful AI helper for someone you know. A second, more complete build, using the multi-step idea from Day 6.

The rule that makes this day workBefore the morning ends they have to test it on a real person outside the group. A parent, a brother or a sister. And they have to watch without helping. This is the part where you come in, and it takes about twenty minutes.

Your tester assumed it was always right. Whose job was it to tell them otherwise?

They makeA second prototype and user testing notes from watching someone use it

Day 08 · Wed 13 JanFamily rules come home

Can you trust AI?

How to check information, spot misleading content and use AI responsibly. By now they have built four things and watched all four go wrong, which is why this day lands. Three parts: checking what is true, spotting fake images and video, and AI in schoolwork.

Checking what is trueSix statements. Three are true, three were written by AI and are false, and all six sound believable. Then a habit they can use for life: who says so, can you find it twice from different places, and does the source have a reason to lie?

Fake images and video: spotting onlyChildren never make a fake. Not as a demonstration and not to show how it works. We look at real examples, the giveaways, why permission matters, and what it feels like to have your face used without it.

AI and schoolworkWhere the line sits between using AI and handing in AI. Each child writes their own rules for responsible AI use, in their own words.

They makePersonal AI rules and the Family AI rules sheet that comes home to you

Day 09 · Thu 14 JanLonger task tonight

Innovation Lab

Improve the final project and get it ready to show. Nothing new is taught. Coaching, building, testing and tidying up, with coaches running short one-to-one sessions. Each child completes a one-page project summary and a five-slide presentation from a GIofAI template, and practises their talk at least once.

Junior20 minutes on how to structure a talk, 65 minutes building and testing, 25 minutes practising. Their talks run two minutes.

Senior25 minutes on structure, 70 minutes building and testing, 25 minutes practising. Their talks run three to four minutes.

Tonight’s activity runs up to an hour. It is the one evening in the fortnight worth keeping free.

They makeA project one-pager and a five-slide presentation, practised

Day 10 · Fri 15 JanYou are invited · runs 2h30

Final Showcase

Present the project and explain how it works, what it does well and what it cannot do. Your child presents to their own group: their coach, the other children in the group, and their families. Not a hall of two hundred strangers. That afternoon, every group sends its best projects to the Grand Showcase, shown to guest mentors in front of the whole program.

How the morning runsToday is mostly small group, because you cannot present to a room over a broadcast. Welcome and house rules (15 minutes), the presentations (75 minutes), a break (15 minutes), feedback from guest mentors that is specific, encouraging and never ranked (30 minutes), then awards, certificates and a close (30 minutes). The Grand Showcase follows in the afternoon.

Six main awards, and a named mention for every single child. A handful of prizes on their own would send most of the room home feeling like they lost, so we do not run it that way.

They take homeA certificate, their project one-pager and final presentation, a link to their work, their AI rules and the family rules

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How each morning works

Each session is two hours. But not the same two hours.

An eight year old and a seventeen year old do not learn in exactly the same way, so our AI classes for kids and for teenagers are structured differently. Blue is the main session, where everyone learns together. Coral is your child’s own small coaching group.

Junior AI Program, ages 8 to 12

10:00am to 12:00pm AEDT · shorter activities · two movement breaks

First 8 minutesWarm-upMain sessionChildren review or rebuild something from the previous day
8 to 25 minutesLearn the ideaMain sessionThe teacher introduces the new idea, with a question, activity or poll every few minutes
25 to 30 minutesMovement breakEveryone gets up and moves. Not optional, and not skipped when we are behind
30 to 55 minutesBuild togetherMain sessionThe teacher and children build something step by step, with a check that everyone is keeping up
55 to 60 minutesSecond movement breakAnother short break from sitting
60 to 71 minutesFinish the activityMain sessionChildren work towards getting the main activity working
71 to 75 minutesWhat happens nextMain sessionThe teacher explains what children will work on in their coaching group
75 to 90 minutesScreen breakFifteen minutes completely away from the screen
90 to 120 minutesSmall coaching groupGroupAsk questions, get help, finish their work, improve their project, show what they made. Cameras only if you have given permission

Senior AI Program, ages 13 to 17

10:00am to 12:00pm AEDT · longer building activities

First 10 minutesWarm-upMain sessionReview something from the previous session
10 to 32 minutesLearn the ideaMain sessionThe teacher explains the main concept, with questions and polls throughout
32 to 36 minutesMovement breakA short break before the main building activity
36 to 71 minutesBuild togetherMain sessionLearners work through the activity with the teacher
71 to 75 minutesWhat happens nextMain sessionThe teacher explains what learners will do in their coaching group
75 to 90 minutesScreen breakFifteen minutes away from the screen
90 to 120 minutesSmall coaching groupGroupSolve problems, finish their work, improve their project, show what they created

What happens in the last 30 minutes?

The coach first checks who needs help.
Children who are stuck get support.
Children who are already finished improve or extend their work.
A few children share their screens and explain what they have done.
At the end, the coach explains the optional follow-up activity and records a progress note for each child.

What if my child gets stuck earlier?

They do not need to wait until the small-group session. Two support coaches monitor questions during the main teaching session. If your child needs help, a coach can take them into a supervised side room, help them solve the problem and return them to the main session. We do not want a child sitting quietly and confused for half an hour.

Daily follow-up activity

Junior learners receive around 30 minutes of follow-up activity. Senior learners receive around 45 minutes. Some activities are deliberately away from the computer, because children do not need to spend their entire holiday in front of a screen. These are not exams, not marked homework and not compulsory schoolwork. They simply help children keep thinking about what they learned.

Optional extra-help room

An optional help room is available after the main session for up to 30 minutes. It is completely optional and no new lessons are taught there. Your child will not fall behind if they do not attend. If they want to spend the afternoon doing something else, that is completely fine.

“About an hour and a quarter taught live, a proper break, then half an hour in a small group with their own coach. Plus a short activity to take away. Built so your child is not staring at a screen all morning.” What we tell parents, and what we hold ourselves to

Child safety

Safe and Responsible AI for Kids

Parents should not have to search through a website to understand how their child will be kept safe. Here are the main things you should know about AI safety for children, with the tools and the data handling set out underneath.

Every live room is supervised

Every breakout room has an adult present. Staff do not privately message children.

Younger children do not use open chatbots

Children under 13 do not independently use open public chatbots during the program. They use controlled tools and supervised activities.

Parents control permissions

We ask you before your child uses their camera, before a session or presentation is recorded, and before your child’s work is shared. We do not assume permission.

Sessions are not normally recorded

Our sessions are live and are not routinely recorded. If we need to record something for a specific reason, we ask for written permission first.

The tools your child may use

For learners aged 8 and 9 we use simpler tools where needed. For example, we may use ScratchJr and the younger Code.org activities instead.

Junior Program, ages 8 to 12	Used on	Account
Google Teachable Machine	Day 2	No account required
Machine Learning for Kids	Selected days	We arrange access
Scratch	Selected projects	We arrange access
Code.org AI Lab	Introductory activities	We arrange access
ONLYOFFICE Presentation Editor	Design and presentation	Installed locally, no account
GIofAI AI Platform	Supervised activities	Coach types, shared screen

Senior Program, ages 13 to 17	Used on	Account
GIofAI AI Platform	Every day	We issue each login
Google Teachable Machine	Day 2	No account required
Spreadsheets	Day 2	Ours
GIofAI No-Code App Builder	Days 4 and 7	Part of the GIofAI LMS
Python in the browser	Advanced program	Ours
Online hosting tools	Advanced, Day 5	Ours

What happens to the webcam pictures on Day 2?

On Day 2 your child may use their laptop camera to take pictures of their own hand. These pictures are used to teach the AI to recognise rock, paper and scissors. The training takes place inside the browser on your child’s own device. The images are not uploaded to GIofAI, not sent to another company, not used to train another company’s AI, and not kept after the activity ends.

We tell you exactly which tools are used. Our Approved Tool Register lists the tools children may use, who controls each account, what information is used and what information leaves the device.

Our safety and privacy information is available to parents

The policies, the checks we run and how we handle a concern are all published in writing. Nothing is vague and nothing is hidden.

Child Safety Policy Approved Tool Register

Who will work with my child

Each morning has three main roles

One person teaching, one catching the questions, and one coach who knows your child by name.

Every morning

Lead teacher

The lead teacher explains the main idea and builds the activity with learners step by step.

Every morning

Moderator and support coaches

They monitor questions and help children who get stuck. This allows the lead teacher to keep teaching without constantly stopping.

Every morning

Your child’s regular coach

Your child stays with the same coach and a similar group throughout the program. The coach gets to know how your child learns and records a short progress note each day.

Sandeep Bhalekar

Program designer · Founder, Global Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Author of The Blueprint for AI Adoption and Societal Transformation, published by Routledge. He designed the ten day program.

Staff checks

Adults working directly with children must complete the required child-safety checks before teaching. This includes Working with Children Check verification, the Child Safe Code of Conduct and the required training. You receive information about your child’s teaching team after enrolment.

Want to speak to someone first?

Call us and ask anything about the program, your child’s age group, the coaches, child safety, the technology, or whether the program is right for your child. There is no obligation to enrol.

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Teaching and coaching

Live Online AI Classes with Small Coaching Groups

Online learning often gives parents a difficult choice. A large class may have a very experienced teacher. A small class may give children more personal attention. We have designed the program so children receive both.

First, children learn together

A lead teacher explains one idea properly, to every child in your child’s age group, and builds it live in front of them instead of reading it off a slide.

It is the best teaching we have, and every child gets exactly the same of it.

Later, they work in their coaching group

The same ten to twelve children and the same coach, every morning. Long enough for a coach to learn how your child works, and small enough that nobody hides at the back.

This is where your child is known by name, where getting stuck is treated as normal, and where somebody notices the morning they go quiet.

Expert teaching plus personal support. Here is how the two fit together.

1

Learn together

For the first part of the morning, everyone learns live with the lead teacher. They explain one idea, show it working, and build something with the children step by step.

This is active learning, not two hours of watching slides. There are questions, polls and things to do all the way through, so children stay with it.

About 75 minutes · live teaching · everyone builds together

2

Take a proper break

Then everyone steps away from the screen for fifteen minutes. No lesson, no activity, nothing to finish.

15 minutes · screens away

3

Work with their own small group

After the break, your child joins the same small coaching group they are in every morning. Their coach knows their name, knows what they are building, and can see who needs help.

The first question is always the same one.

“Who needs help?”

Anyone stuck gets help first. Anyone who has finished is encouraged to take it further. They also show what they made, ask questions, and see what the other children came up with.

30 minutes · about 10 to 12 learners · the same coach every morning

And if they get stuck during the main lesson?

They do not have to wait. Support coaches watch the questions for the whole teaching session. If your child gets stuck, a coach helps them and sends them straight back to the lesson, instead of them spending the rest of the morning feeling lost.

Groups are sorted by age

An eight year old and a twelve year old are further apart than a thirteen year old and a seventeen year old, so we do not mix them. Your child sits with children in the same school years, and their coach pitches it at that level.

Group	Ages	Why
Junior A	8 to 9	Younger children need more attention, so this group is kept smaller
Junior B	10 to 12	Close enough in reading and independence to work as one group
Senior A	13 to 14	Early high school, working mostly on their own
Senior B	15 to 17	A seventeen year old should not be building alongside a thirteen year old

Extra help for ages 8 and 9

Files come already started, so nobody faces a blank screen
Instructions are read out loud, not typed into a chat box
The daily activity is cut to about 20 minutes, with an adult nearby
No typing long prompts alone. They use voice, or their coach types for them

Two mornings work the other way round

On Day 5, when they build in teams against a deadline, and on Day 10, when they present, the shape flips: about half an hour together and well over an hour in the small group. You cannot build as a team or present to a room over a broadcast, so on those two mornings we do not try.

Which group would your child be in?

Junior is 8 to 12 and Senior is 13 to 17, and one price covers both. Call us if your child sits on the boundary.

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Why ten days

Why does the program run for ten days?

You can run a fun AI activity in one day. But understanding AI properly takes longer.

The short version looks like this

Show children a chatbot
Let them make an image
Help them follow a few instructions
Give them a certificate at the end

Children may well enjoy that. But enjoying it is not the same as learning to think with AI, question it, build with it and use it responsibly.

We want children to have time to learn, build, make mistakes, test, improve and present. That takes four things a two day camp cannot give them.

Children need to repeat things

Watching a demonstration once is not the same as understanding it. Our learners come back the next morning and try again. They rebuild it, improve it, test it and explain what they made.

They need to make things, not watch things

Every morning ends with something they built themselves. Not an answer from a chatbot, but a trained model, a prototype, a plan, a set of rules or a working AI project.

They need to see AI get things wrong

No child should leave here thinking AI always knows the answer. They test it, break it and find out for themselves where it falls over.

Responsible use cannot be one lesson at the end

Privacy, accuracy, schoolwork and honest use run through the program from the first morning. Good AI habits are not something you add on later. They are part of learning AI properly.

The difference is simple

A short AI camp

gives your child an experience.

The Future AI Innovators Program

gives them real skills.

Want the ten day plan before you decide?

We will send you the full curriculum and the Parent Guide. The prices are further down this page.

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Five rules we follow

Five simple rules behind every morning

These are the standards we follow every morning, in every group. Not hopes. Rules.

RULE 01

Children build, not just watch

Every major lesson includes a practical activity. Children finish the morning with something they have built, tested or created. If they did not make something, the session is not finished.

RULE 02

Children should understand what they are doing

We do not want them blindly following instructions. From Day 4, children start the morning by rebuilding something from the day before on their own. If too many are still unsure, we teach it again before moving forward.

RULE 03

Making mistakes is part of learning

Children are encouraged to test AI and see where it fails. That is how they learn that AI is not always right, and how they learn to check it.

RULE 04

Safety comes first

The tools, the activities and the online rooms are designed with child safety in mind. Responsible use is not saved for one lesson at the end. Every morning includes a short conversation about things like:

accuracy
privacy
schoolwork
when AI should and should not be trusted

RULE 05

Children should be able to get help

If your child is stuck, there is always someone available to help. Support coaches watch the questions during the main lesson, and their own coach is with them in the small group.

Children also test what they build on a real person, and watch without helping. If the user gets confused, the design needs to improve.

What can children build?

Clear choices, not an unlimited blank page

Children do not start with a blank page. We give them clear choices and boundaries. That keeps projects safe and suitable for their age, means coaches can actually help, and makes sure a project can be finished during the program. Children still make their own choices. We simply give those choices enough structure to succeed.

Never allowed, with no exceptions

Medical, legal or money advice
Judging people, or watching them
Face recognition of real people
Crisis or mental health support
Sensitive personal information
Weapons or unsafe challenges
Making fake images or video of real people
Putting anything live on the open internet

Points and awards

There is a leaderboard. But it is not about finishing first.

We want to reward good learning habits, not speed. Children compete against others their own age, and the points go to the things we actually want them to do.

Children earn points for things such as

Attending
Taking part
Finishing activities
Asking good questions
Helping others
Using AI responsibly
Testing their work
Improving something that did not work

Only about a quarter of the points come from finishing the build. The rest come from taking part and doing it properly.

Children compete inside their own age group

A ten year old is never ranked against a sixteen year old. Rankings are kept separate by age, so the leaderboard is something a younger child can actually win.

What the top learners in each age group receive

Something worth more than a prize: a place in an advanced workshop, a one-to-one mentoring session, their project featured in the showcase, a digital badge, or first pick of the next GIofAI program.

Plus the awards that are not about points

Best AI Innovation, the Responsible AI Award, Best Problem Solver, Best Collaboration and the Future Innovator Award. And a named recognition for every single child, whatever their score.

No child is named in public

Any leaderboard your child can see uses a first name and initial, a learner number, or a display name you have approved. We never publish a child’s full name, their school or how to contact them.

Want the full scoring rules before you enrol?

We send them with the Parent Guide, so you can read exactly how your child is scored before you pay anything.

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Final Showcase

Friday 15 January 2027. Parents are invited.

Your child’s showcase is small on purpose. Their own coaching group, their coach, and their families. Not a hall of two hundred strangers where your child is one slide out of a hundred.

They share their screen and show you something that did not exist two weeks earlier.

They explain the problem, their solution, how it works, what they tested, what went wrong and what they changed. Then they demonstrate it live. Not a video, the real thing.

And then they do the part we are proudest of.

They tell you what it cannot do.

Where it gets things wrong. What it should not be trusted with. What they would fix next.

Most adults who use AI every day at work cannot do that. Your twelve year old will do it in front of a room.

That is not a certificate for the fridge. That is a different child.

And that afternoon, every group sends its best projects to the Grand Showcase, shown to guest mentors in front of the whole program. Being picked is an award in itself.

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How projects are assessed

Children see the assessment criteria from the beginning

We believe children should know what good work looks like before they start. Look at what counts for the most, and more tellingly, at what counts for nothing.

What we look at	Future AI Innovators	Advanced AI Builders
Understanding the problem	20%	20%
Building a useful solution	20%	15%
Using AI well	20%	15%
Testing and improvement	20%	30%
Responsible AI use	10%	15%
Communication	10%	5%

What we never mark

How fast they were
How polished it looks
How impressive the output is
How much code they wrote

Speed does not decide who has done the best work. Rewarding those things produces children who copy demonstrations. In the advanced program, testing is worth 30% and presenting only 5%, on purpose. We reward evidence and care, not confidence.

Certificate

Every child who completes the program receives a certificate

It includes the learner name, program name, final project name, program dates, total live learning hours, skills demonstrated, certificate number, authorised signature and online verification.

A sample certificate. Your child’s name, their project and their recognition go in the real one. Swipe across to read the whole thing.

Personal recognition

Each learner also receives a recognition written by their coach. For example Best Question Asked, Best User Testing, Most Helpful Teammate or Bravest Rebuild. The aim is to recognise something meaningful about how your child learned and worked.

It names the project

Not just the program. The thing they actually designed, built, tested and presented, by name.

Skills listed on the certificate

AI Fundamentals, Problem Solving, AI Project Design, Testing, Critical Thinking, Responsible AI and Communication.

Certificate verification

Each certificate has its own number. It is signed by the Program Director and can be verified through the GIofAI website.

Want to see the whole ten day plan?

We will send the full plan and the Parent Guide. The prices are further down this page.

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Is this right for my child?

The program will suit some children very well. It will not suit everyone.

We would rather help you make the right decision before you enrol than have your child sit through ten mornings they did not want.

It may be right for your child if

They are aged 8 to 17
They are curious about AI
They already use AI and you want them to use it properly
They enjoy making things
They like solving problems
They learn better by doing
You want them to think, not just copy answers

It may not be right if

You need full-day holiday care
You mainly want a traditional coding course
Your child is unwilling to discuss or show any of their work to their small group

No technical background is required. Most children have never written code before joining the main program.

AI course fees and January 2027 dates

January 2027 Dates & Fees

One price for both age groups, because both get the same twenty live hours, the same ten builds and the same portfolio. There are no extra learning tools you need to buy.

January 2027 · ten mornings · ages 8 to 17

$595

January launch price, until 30 November 2026. Includes GST. 20 live hours across ten mornings.

Reserve with $99 and lock in the $595 launch price The $496 balance is due on 1 December. The $99 is fully refundable until then.

Or pay $595 in full today. $695 from 1 December, paid in full.

What the price includes

20 hours of live learning across ten morning sessions
A regular coaching group of 10 to 12, with the same coach throughout
A daily follow-up activity, much of it away from the screen
An optional extra-help room after each session
Ten portfolio pieces, plus a certificate
A technology setup session on 18 December
Written coach feedback, and a report after every session
Every tool your child needs. Nothing else to buy

Additional children $449 each. Two children: $1,044.

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All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. Payment options may include full payment, a $99 reservation plus the balance on 1 December, Klarna and Afterpay, where available at checkout. The $99 reservation payment is fully refundable until 1 December.

The essentials

Dates: Monday 4 January to Friday 15 January 2027Ten mornings over two weeks
Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm AEDTBoth groups run in the same morning slot
Age groups: Junior 8 to 12, Senior 13 to 17Each has its own session and its own coach
Western Australia: 7:00am AWSTPerth
Queensland: 9:00am AESTBrisbane
South Australia: 9:30am ACDTAdelaide
Coaching groups: Around 10 to 12 learnersA regular group, a named coach, and another adult available for support
Where: Live onlineJoin from anywhere in Australia

What is included?

20 hours of live teaching across ten morning sessions
A regular coaching group, with the same coach across the program
Support coaches during the main lesson, so nobody stays stuck
A daily follow-up activity, much of it away from the screen on purpose
All the tools needed for the program. Nothing to buy and nothing to install
Optional extra-help sessions after each session
A short summary after each session, a progress report every few sessions, and a final report
Ten pieces of portfolio work your child keeps
The Family AI Agreement, written by your child
A family showcase, plus the Grand Showcase with guest mentors
A certificate and individual recognition for every learner
Written coach feedback

Not sure which group is right for your child?

Tell us their age, what they have done before and what they are interested in. We will recommend the most suitable group. If we believe your child should wait for a later program, we will tell you.

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Where it leads

Want your child to continue further?

Learners can continue into the Advanced AI Builders Program after completing Future AI Innovators. It runs 18 to 22 January 2027, five mornings, and it is grouped the same way as the January program: Junior for ages 8 to 12 and Senior for ages 13 to 17.

What changes

Learners write real Python code with AI support, and build something that can be used outside the classroom. They give AI the right information, give it tools and tasks, test it properly, then publish it online for someone outside the class to use.

What they finish with

A live AI tool, online and in use
Test results, before and after
A written review and a technical demonstration
An Advanced AI Builder certificate

What it costs

$995 five mornings, 15 hours live

It is not sold on its own. We offer it to learners once they have completed the Future AI Innovators Program, and places are confirmed then.

One requirement

Children must complete the Future AI Innovators Program first. There is no separate test. It is open to ages 8 to 17, in Junior and Senior groups, once that is done.

Enrol in the Future AI Innovators Program now, and we will contact you about Advanced AI Builders once your child has completed it.

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How we keep parents informed

You should not have to wonder how your child is going

We provide updates throughout the program. The two dates in coral below are the ones to put in your calendar today.

What you receive, and when

Reporting is built into the program rather than added at the end.

When	What you get	What is in it
After every session	A short update	Whether your child attended, how they participated, their progress on the activity, how engaged they were, and anything important before the next session
Every few sessions	A more detailed progress report	What your child is doing well, areas where they need support, engagement, project progress, and comments from their coach
Halfway through	A parent update	If there are concerns about attendance, technology, participation or progress, we tell you what is happening and what we plan to do
Day 10	A final report	Your child’s final project, skills demonstrated, activities completed, strengths, awards or recognition, and suggested next steps

If something important comes up during the program, we contact you then. We do not wait until the final report.

Important dates

Mid-November 2026Live Parent Information SessionMeet the team and learn about the program, coaching groups, learning tools, child safety, and privacy and data. There will also be time for your questions.
30 November 2026The launch price ends 30 NovemberFrom 1 December the price is $695, paid in full at enrolment.
When you enrolYou receive a Welcome PackA setup-session invitation, a calendar file, an equipment checklist and the Learner AI Agreement.
Friday 18 December 2026Enrolment closes, and we hold the technology setup sessionIt runs for about 45 minutes. We test the technology, check logins, introduce your child to their coach and explain what happens next. We want to make sure no child arrives on 4 January unable to log in.
Sunday 3 January 2027Optional technology catch-upFor families who missed the setup session, had technical problems, or were away.

Monday 4 January 2027Program beginsAfter the first day, we confirm that your child is set up and underway.
Friday 8 JanuaryHalfway updateA short update about what your child has built, and something you can ask them about at home.
Wednesday 13 JanuaryFamily AI RulesYour child brings home the AI rules they created. These are written in their own words.
Friday 15 JanuaryFinal ShowcaseParents are invited. The showcase runs for around two and a half hours.
Sunday 17 JanuaryPortfolio and certificateYou receive your child’s portfolio, their certificate, a link to their work and a short parent survey.
Friday 22 JanuaryAdvanced AI Builders Demo DayFor children continuing into the Advanced AI Builders Program.

Questions parents often ask

Questions Parents Ask About Our AI Course

If yours is not here, ask it. We would rather answer it now than have you guess.

Is there an AI course for kids with no coding experience?

Yes. This is one of them. Most children have never written code before joining the Future AI Innovators Program, and they do not need to. They work with AI tools directly, build projects without writing code, and still finish with something that runs.

Children who want to go further can continue into the Advanced AI Builders Program afterwards, which does use Python.

What is the difference between an AI course and a coding course for kids?

A coding course teaches a child to write instructions a computer follows. An AI course teaches them to work with systems that learn from examples, which behave differently: they are sometimes confidently wrong, they reflect the data they were shown, and they cannot be checked by reading the code.

So this program spends its time on judgement as well as building: how to ask well, how to check an answer, what to keep private, and when AI is the wrong tool. Your child builds with AI and learns when not to trust it.

Will my child actually get help if they are stuck?

Yes. Support coaches monitor the question queue during the main lesson. Children do not have to wait until the small-group session.

If your child needs help, a coach can take them into a supervised side room, help them solve the problem and return them to the main session.

In the small group, their own coach starts by checking who needs help. By the second morning that coach knows how your child works. They record a short progress note for each child every day, so nobody drifts along quietly for two weeks.

How can my child learn to use AI safely?

Safety runs through every morning rather than sitting in one lesson at the end. Children under 13 do not independently use open public chatbots. Every breakout room has an adult present. Camera use, recording and any sharing of your child’s work need your permission first.

On Day 8 your child learns to check whether information is true, how misleading images and video are made, what personal information should stay private, and where the line sits between using AI for schoolwork and handing in AI. They write their own rules and bring them home for you to discuss as a family.

Does my child have to keep their camera on?

No. Camera use depends on the activity and your permission.

During the main teaching session, cameras and microphones are normally off for everyone, which is part of why it stays calm. In the small coaching group we would like cameras on, with your permission, because it is how a coach spots a child who is stuck or has gone quiet. If that is not right for your family, tell us and your child takes part another way. You can change your mind at any time.

What if my child does not like the program?

Tell us by the end of the second morning and we will give you a full refund. No complicated process and no questions asked. Two mornings is enough for any child to know, and we would rather carry that risk than have one of them sit through eight more mornings they do not want.

What age can children use AI?

Future AI Innovators is a live online AI course for children and teenagers aged 8 to 17. Children under 13 do not independently use open public chatbots in this program. They work with supervised, approved tools, and an adult is present in every breakout room. The Senior group is for ages 13 to 17.

Many public AI tools set their own minimum age, often 13, and those rules change, so families should check the current terms. Our approved tool list is kept up to date for that reason. A longer explanation is in What age can children use AI?

Is ChatGPT safe for kids?

An open public chatbot is not handed to a child to use on their own in this program. Learners under 13 do not independently use ChatGPT. The course teaches children how to check an answer, what personal information to keep private, and where the line sits between using AI to learn and handing in AI for schoolwork.

Parents can read the Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy and the Parent Guide for the full approach, or start with Is ChatGPT safe for kids?

What do we need at home?

You need a suitable computer, an internet connection and the basic equipment listed in your Welcome Pack. On Day 2 your child trains a model using the webcam, and several of the tools need a full browser, so a phone will not work and we would not recommend a tablet. The program provides the required learning tools and accounts. We check all of it with you at the setup session on 18 December.

Are sessions recorded?

Not normally. Our sessions are live. If recording is required for a particular reason, we ask for written permission first and tell you how long we keep it and who can see it. Anyone who misses a morning gets a catch-up card the same day, so they can build what the group built and rejoin the next morning.

Around 100 children may join. How can the group still be small?

The full program may have around 100 children. But your child is not sitting in a group of 100 for the entire morning.

The first part of the session is taught by the lead teacher. During this part, cameras and microphones are normally off, questions and polls happen regularly, and support coaches monitor questions.

After a fifteen minute break, your child joins their regular coaching group of around 10 to 12 children. They stay with the same coach and a similar group throughout the program.

This is where they ask questions, get project help, share work and receive feedback.

Another ten questions parents ask

How will I know how my child is going?

You receive a short update after every session: whether your child attended, how they participated, their progress on the activity, how engaged they were, and anything important before the next session.

Every few sessions you receive a more detailed progress report with what your child is doing well, where they need support, project progress and comments from their coach. There is a parent update halfway through, and a full report on the last day.

If something important comes up, we contact you then. We do not wait until the final report.

Two hours a day seems short.

It is deliberate. Children this age run out of attention online well before three hours, and we would rather give you 120 focused minutes than 180 where the last hour is wasted.

There is also a follow-up activity each day, much of it away from the screen. Your child will have plenty to do. They just will not be sitting on a video call all morning.

My child is not technical.

Good. This is not a coding course. Most children have never written code before joining the main program. What they need is curiosity and a willingness to make something and show it to people. Every build comes with a half-finished file for anyone who falls behind, and an extra challenge for anyone who finishes early.

Is my eight year old too young for this?

No, but they will have a different experience to a twelve year old, and we have built for that. Smaller groups. Projects that start from a template instead of a blank screen. Instructions read out loud instead of typed into a chat box. And a shorter daily activity that we would expect an adult to be nearby for.

What about AI tools and age limits?

Most large AI tools are not legally usable by children under 13, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Our younger groups work inside our own platform with a coach, alongside tools built specifically for children. Children under 13 do not independently use open public chatbots during the program. We check the age rules and privacy terms of every tool again before every group, because they change.

Will this just teach them to cheat on homework?

Day 8 is about exactly this. They learn to check what AI tells them, to spot information it has made up, and where the line sits between using AI as a tool and handing in work that is not theirs.

They write that rule themselves and bring it home. Most schools are not having this conversation. We are.

We are travelling in the first week of January.

Then this is not the right group for you. Attendance matters, because the project builds day on day and the group moves together. Tell us and we will put you on the April list and contact you first.

Which group will my child be in, and what if they are on the boundary?

Junior is 8 to 12 and Senior is 13 to 17. Both groups cover the same ideas with different tools and different depth, so a twelve year old with real experience can sit in Senior, and a thirteen year old who would be happier in Junior can too. Just ask us. We would rather get the fit right than go by the birthday.

Do I need to be around during the sessions?

Not during the session. Two things do need you: about twenty minutes on Day 7, when your child tests what they built on a real person and has to watch without helping, and the Final Showcase on 15 January, which runs around two and a half hours with parents there.

Why do Junior and Senior cost the same?

Because they get the same twenty live hours, the same ten builds and the same portfolio. The difference is the tools and the depth, not the amount. One price is honest, and it means a family with two children in different groups sees one number. The full price list is further down this page.

Still have a question?

Ask us directly. A real person will respond, usually the same day, and there is nothing to pay.

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Before you leave this page

Group sizes are limited

No countdown clocks and no made up deadlines. These four things are simply true, and you can check any of them.

We do not increase group sizes

We do not make groups bigger just to accept more enrolments. For younger children, groups may be smaller. Once an age group is full, enrolment for that group closes.

Enrolment closes Friday 18 December

We close enrolment before Christmas so every child can complete the technology setup before the program starts. Late enrolment is not available immediately before the January program.

The launch price ends 30 November

From 1 December the price is $695, paid in full at enrolment. A $99 reservation today locks in the $595 launch price. See what is included

January launch price, until 30 November 2026

Reserve with $99 today and lock it in. Fully refundable until 1 December, and a full program refund through the end of Day 2.

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AI School Holiday Program for Kids & Teens Ages 8–17

10 Mornings of Hands-On AI Projects

Train an AI model

Build an AI assistant

Present a finished project

The Kids program is new. The organisation behind it is not.

What learners and industry leaders say about GIofAI

And the things you can check for yourself

Published on AI adoption

In the National AI Centre directory

Child safety in writing

Checked before they teach

Kids know how to open AI. That does not mean they know how to use it well.

We teach them something more useful than how to use a chatbot

What Your Child Builds and Takes Home

What Kids Learn in Future AI Innovators

Understand AI

Build something

Make it useful

Use AI safely and honestly

Finish and present

Your child makes something every morning

Teach AI rock, paper, scissors

Build an AI assistant

What is AI?

Rock, Paper, Scissors

How to talk to AI

Find a problem

Challenge Day

AI that can take action

Build an AI Assistant

Can you trust AI?

Innovation Lab

Final Showcase

Each session is two hours. But not the same two hours.

Junior AI Program, ages 8 to 12

Senior AI Program, ages 13 to 17

What happens in the last 30 minutes?

What if my child gets stuck earlier?

Daily follow-up activity

Optional extra-help room

Safe and Responsible AI for Kids

Every live room is supervised

Younger children do not use open chatbots

Parents control permissions

Sessions are not normally recorded

The tools your child may use

What happens to the webcam pictures on Day 2?

Each morning has three main roles

Lead teacher

Moderator and support coaches

Your child’s regular coach

Sandeep Bhalekar

Staff checks

Live Online AI Classes with Small Coaching Groups

First, children learn together

Later, they work in their coaching group

Learn together

Take a proper break

Work with their own small group

And if they get stuck during the main lesson?

Groups are sorted by age

Extra help for ages 8 and 9

Two mornings work the other way round

Why does the program run for ten days?

The short version looks like this

Children need to repeat things

They need to make things, not watch things

They need to see AI get things wrong

Responsible use cannot be one lesson at the end

The difference is simple

A short AI camp

The Future AI Innovators Program

Five simple rules behind every morning

Children build, not just watch

Children should understand what they are doing

Making mistakes is part of learning

Safety comes first

Children should be able to get help