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📱 Free course · Ages 7 to 12 · Grown-up + kid team

Make Your First App With AI!

You know that feeling when you have a GREAT idea? This course turns your idea into a real app that works on a real phone. You do the dreaming, drawing, and deciding. A grown-up drives the computer. The AI does the typing of the code. 7 short lessons, and at the end: a certificate signed by our Chief AI Officer, with YOUR name on it.

7LESSONS
1REAL APP
~90MINUTES
1SIGNED CERTIFICATE
Start Lesson 1 →

Your place is saved on this device, so you can stop and come back anytime.

🎓 Lessons: start at 1 🏗️ The big build day 📝 Quiz + signed certificate
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A note for grown-ups

You drive the computer.
Your child drives the ideas.

No experience needed for either of you. Children this age learn best with one idea at a time, things they can touch and see, quick wins, and lots of celebration, so lessons are short, visual, and hands-on. The AI builder accounts are yours: you create them, you own them, you sit beside your child for every build. Each lesson has a parent guide button with tips and questions to ask. The whole course runs on free plans.

What you will be able to do
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Find an app idea by spotting who needs help.

✏️

Draw your app on paper like real designers do.

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Say a magic wish (a prompt!) that makes AI build your app.

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Build on 2 real AI builders, with 2 more to explore.

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Test your app like a detective and make it better.

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Know the 4 golden safety rules by heart.

The 7 lessons

Every lesson has its own colour.

Do them in order: each one opens when you finish the one before it.

Lesson 1 · 🟢 Green

Dream it!

Find your app idea by answering 3 easy questions about people you love.

🕒 10 minStart →
Lesson 2 · 🔵 Blue

Plan it!

The 5-finger plan: draw your app and get your magic wish words ready.

🕒 15 minStart →
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Lesson 3 · 🩷 Pink

Build it! (Lovable)

The big moment: your wish becomes a real app, with a grown-up driving.

🕒 20 minStart →
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Lesson 4 · 🟣 Indigo

Build it! (Google AI Studio)

Build an app with a tiny robot brain inside. It can talk back!

🕒 20 minStart →
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Lesson 5 · 🟠 Orange

Two more builders + free vs paid

Peek at Replit and Canva Code, and learn what "free" really means.

🕒 10 minStart →
 MY APP IS CALLED
Lesson 6 · 🩵 Cyan

Test it, name it, show it!

Play detective, pick the perfect name, and show your app to the family.

🕒 15 minStart →
Lesson 7 · 🟡 Gold

Quiz + your signed certificate

12 questions, then a certificate signed by Adrian Dunkley, Chief AI Officer.

🕒 10 minStart →
🛡️ The 4 golden safety rules (you will see these a lot)

1. A grown-up drives the computer and owns every account. 2. Never type your real name, school, address, or phone number into an AI. 3. Never type a grown-up's card numbers anywhere. 4. If anything on the screen feels strange or scary, stop and show your grown-up right away.