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The AI wave is here. Put your child out in front.

Knowing how to use AI is already a required subject for this generation. Start too late, or only ever hear about it without being able to use it, and your child spends the next decade a step behind.

Here they learn to use it properly:

  • to get through schoolwork faster,
  • to build applications of their own,
  • to put something on a college application that nobody else can copy,
  • and to build the kind of ability that stays with them for life.

Build for the age of AI.

Hands-on 3D design, robotics and AI. Grades 3–12.

  • Line drawing of a 3D printer partway through printing a gear and a hinge, layer by layer. The rest of the part is outlined in dashed lines above, with red arrows showing how far the print will rise.

    3D Design & Printing

    Grades 3–7

    Design it on screen. Hold it in your hand.

  • Line drawing of a robot car laid out in parts: chassis, two motors, four wheels, a circuit board, a bracket, a distance sensor and screws, with red arrows showing where each part goes.

    Robotics & Coding

    Grades 5–12

    From first build to competition robot.

  • Line drawing of a laptop with its web app lifted out of the screen in layers: the page, interface panels, lines of code and a data cylinder, with red arrows showing where each layer goes.

    AI & Apps

    Grades 6–12

    Work with AI. Build real apps.

Innovation ProjectsGrades 7–12Teams turn a big idea into real results, then present them.

3D Design & Printing

Grades 3–7

Design it on screen. Hold it in your hand.

Two levels, 12 one-hour classes each. Hands-on every class, with new prints to take home week after week.

  • New students: 20% off
  • All materials included
A laptop showing a simple 3D model of a small box on a grid, with the same box printed beside it.

Starter

Full price $720$576New-student price

Book Starter
Grades
3–7
Prerequisite
No experience needed
Length
12 hours, 6 weeks

What they learn

  1. Tinkercad basics: shapes, holes, groups, and a first print
  2. Measure and fit: millimeters, calipers, parts that fit together
  3. How a printer builds: slicing, layers, infill and supports
  4. Running the printer: load filament, start a print, rescue a failed one
  5. Materials and color: PLA, PETG, flexible TPU, four-color prints
  6. Their own design: sketch, model, print, test, improve

Take home new prints week after week, ending with a design of their own

Printed parts that move: a print-in-place hinge, two meshing gears on axles, and a snap-fit box with its lid.

Studio

Full price $720$576New-student price

Book Studio
Grades
4–7
Prerequisite
After Starter
Length
12 hours, 6 weeks

What they learn

  1. Getting the gap right: so parts can slide, turn or press together
  2. Things that move: hinges, gears and axles
  3. Snap-fits and print-in-place: parts that come off the printer assembled
  4. Designing for printing: strength, print time, test pieces
  5. Designs built by code: loops that make spirals, gears and patterns
  6. Their own product: multi-part, multi-color, improved to version 2

Take home hinges, gears, snap-fits and more, ending with their own product

Schedule Twice a week, one hour a class. Sat & Sun, a weekend day and a weekday, or two weekdays after school. Exact times are set with each group.

Robotics & Coding

Grades 5–12

From first build to competition robot.

Two courses for beginners, then a season-long VEX team. Mechanics, electronics and code, hands-on every class.

  • New students: 20% off
  • Kits included
The robot car from the drawing above, assembled: four wheels, a circuit board on standoffs and a distance sensor at the front.

Robot Car

Full price $960$768New-student price

Book Robot Car
Grades
5–8
Length
16 hours
Kit
Included, yours to keep

What they learn

  1. Circuits from scratch: LEDs, buttons, first code
  2. Motors and wheels: build it, drive it, steer it
  3. Sensors: it sees walls, follows lines
  4. Their own mission: a course run, coded with AI

Take home the robot car they wired and coded

A microcontroller board on a breadboard wired to an LED and a small motor, beside a phone showing a slider, a switch and buttons.

Smart Devices

Full price $960$768New-student price

Book Smart Devices
Grades
7–12
Length
16 hours
Kit
Included, yours to keep

What they learn

  1. Meet the ESP32: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in
  2. Phone control: lights and motors by phone
  3. Live data: sensor readings on a phone
  4. Their own device: designed, built, demoed

Take home their own phone-controlled device

A metal competition robot with a perforated aluminium frame, four omni wheels and a lift arm.

VEX Robotics

By tryout. Monthly fee, quoted after tryout.

Book VEX Robotics
Grades
6–12
Season
Sep–Mar
Joining
By tryout

What they learn

  1. Build: drivetrains and mechanisms
  2. Code: driver control and autonomous
  3. Engineering notebook: every design choice, recorded
  4. Compete: tournaments all season

Result a full season of tournaments

Schedule 2-hour classes, once or twice a week. 4 or 8 weeks, or a schedule that suits you. VEX team: two practices a week all season. Tournament fees and travel extra.

New-student offer 20% off your first course or first VEX month. Course prices above are already discounted.

AI & Apps

Grades 6–12

Work with AI. Build real apps.

Two modules of 8 two-hour classes each, then team projects.

  • New students: 20% off
  • In person, in our lab
A laptop showing an AI chat, drawn as simple message bubbles.

AI Fluency

Full price $1,280$1,024New-student price

Book AI Fluency
Grades
6–12
Prerequisite
No experience needed
Length
16 hours, 4 or 8 weeks
Class size
4–8 students

What they learn

  1. How AI models work: training and inference, explained
  2. The major models, hands-on: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.
  3. Going deeper: context, Projects, memory, Skills
  4. Claude Code: AI as a capable assistant

Take homeHigh school: a four-year plan for high school and college.Middle school: a web page or small game they can demo.

A laptop and a phone showing the same simple web app.

Web Development

Full price $1,440$1,152New-student price

Book Web Development
Grades
7–12
Prerequisite
Builds on AI Fluency
Length
16 hours, 4 or 8 weeks
Class size
4–8 students

What they learn

  1. Build by conversation: a site live the same day
  2. Frontend, backend, data: taken apart layer by layer
  3. Claude Code, advanced: code written to their own plan
  4. Git and GitHub: versions and teamwork
  5. Their own domain: deployed automatically
  6. Real users: feedback, then version 2

Take home a website that is entirely theirs, on their own domain

Schedule 2-hour classes, once or twice a week. Twice a week takes 4 weeks; once a week takes 8. Other schedules can be worked out with each group.

Innovation Projects

Grades 7–12

Teams turn a big idea into real results, then present them.

Project after project, a portfolio built for college applications.

A prototype robot arm on a presentation stand at a workbench, beside an easel holding a pitch board.

Innovation Project

By project. Fee quoted per project.

Ask about Innovation Projects
Grades
7–12
Prerequisite
By invitation or interview
Teams
Up to four
Class size
4–8 students

Four stages

  1. Scope it
  2. Plan it
  3. Pick a contest
  4. Pitch it

Good to know

  • Every class in our own lab. AI & Apps and Innovation Projects run in small groups of 4–8.
  • New-student offer: 20% off your first enrollment. Prices above are already discounted.

Student work

AI Fluency, Cohort 1. Six students spent five weeks working with Claude and made 18 games, 4 pay charts, 2 reports and 4 high school plans.

See what they built
Cohort 1 of AI Fluency in our lab, holding their certificates of completion, with their instructor.
Cohort 1 with their certificates, on the last day of the course.

Coached team

VEX V5 Robotics 2025–26 season

  • Excellence Award California Region 4 Middle School Championship
  • Amaze Award VEX Robotics World Championship
  • Robot Skills Champion VEX Signature Event
Team 24580A at the bench, working on their robot beside the team placard.
Four team members holding the Robot Skills Champion banner at the VEX Signature Event.
A team member coding the robot at the edge of the competition field.

Our lab

The lab's full-size VEX competition field, with workbenches along the wall.Classroom tables with laptops and a wall screen.The academy wall with pennants, shelves of student builds and a desk.
The display shelf, with awards, 3D prints and robot builds.
The display shelf in the lab.
Our lab in Tustin, where sessions run.

Contact

Call 949-545-3778
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