Your child won’t just use AI. They’ll build it.
A summer program where students 14+ ship real web apps using Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, & Cursor.
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What your teen will ship in one summer.
A portfolio site + 3 more — every one deployed live.
Portfolio site
Live on a real URL.
AI chatbot
Holds real conversations.
Flashcard app
Backed by a database.
E-commerce store
Real Stripe checkout.
Built by founders who’ve shipped real products.
Two engineers. Three startups between them. One shared belief.
Ed Hsieh
MIT ’05 · Harvard MBA ’13
Managed teams at Groupon and on teams across US & Asia.
“I first learned to code before MIT, and MIT further taught me how to think like an engineer. I'm excited to help the next generation of builders.”
Eric Dominguez
MIT ’04 · NYU MBA ’12
Three startups. One acquired, two profitable.
“I love building, whether it's physical or digital products, and want to build something that'll help prepare my niece for the future.”
Between us, we’ve worked at
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A summer of building. Four real web apps. One portfolio that proves it.
Don’t take our word for it — every project below is a live mini-demo. Go ahead, play with them.
Personalized portfolio page, enhanced with AI
A personal site that shows off who they are and what they’ve made — with AI-powered touches they design and build themselves.
Hi, I’m Maya 👋
11th grader · I build things for the web
AI greeting — unique to every visitor
Personalizing your welcome…
Live demo — this greeting was just personalized for you from your location, exactly the way your child's portfolio will use AI to enhance the site experience.
AI assistant chatbot
A working chatbot that holds real conversations, wired up with today’s AI tools — the kind of assistant modern products are built on.
StudyBot
Maya’s homework helper
Simulated conversation — in the course, your child wires their chatbot to a real AI model.
Customized flashcard app
A study app they design end to end — custom decks, real interactivity, and logic they wrote and shipped.
SAT Vocab — Deck 1
4 cards · by Maya
Capstone ecommerce store
A complete online store with a real Stripe checkout — the capstone that ties everything together.
Luna the Brave Little Rocket
Children’s picture book · written & illustrated by Maya, 16
A little rocket who’s scared of the dark learns that the stars were cheering for her all along.
$12.99
Real skills — from a great prompt to a shipped app.
It starts with the most transferable skill of all — getting great results from AI — and builds all the way to a live, working app, the same path a professional team follows.
Prompting & Context
The single most transferable skill in the course: getting great results from AI. Tools will keep changing — knowing how to ask well is what lasts a lifetime.
- Clear prompts — Asking for exactly what you want, in words the AI understands.
- Giving context — Feeding the AI the right background so its answers actually fit.
- Writing a spec — Turning a fuzzy idea into a clear, build-ready description.
- Breaking it down — Splitting a big request into steps the AI can nail one at a time.
- Iterating — Refining and correcting when the first answer isn’t right.
AI Coding Tools
The same AI tools professional developers use every day — your child learns to build with them, not just chat.
- Claude Code — Anthropic’s AI coding assistant that builds real features alongside them.
- Cursor — An AI-powered code editor that writes and explains code as they go.
- OpenAI Codex — OpenAI’s tool for turning plain-English ideas into working software.
- OpenClaw — An open-source AI coding agent for building in the open.
Web Fundamentals
The timeless building blocks behind every website and app — the foundation that makes AI tools genuinely powerful.
- Client — What people see and click — the part that runs in the browser.
- Server — The behind-the-scenes engine that powers every feature.
- Databases — How apps remember and organize information that lasts.
- APIs — The connectors that let apps talk to each other and to AI.
- UI / UX — Designing screens that are clear, intuitive, and a joy to use.
AI Patterns
How modern AI products are really built — the patterns behind the assistants and agents everyone’s talking about.
- LLM plugins — Giving an AI model new skills and access to live information.
- MCP — The new standard for safely connecting AI to real tools and data.
- Agents — AI that takes action and completes multi-step tasks on its own.
- Orchestration — Coordinating multiple AI steps into one reliable system.
Ship It
Real engineers don’t just write code — they ship it. Your child learns to take a project from their laptop to the live internet.
- Git — How professional teams track every change and never lose work.
- Command line — The power tool real developers live in.
- Unit tests — Automated checks that prove the code actually works.
- Cloud servers — Putting an app online so anyone, anywhere can use it.
- Commit & push — The satisfying final step: pushing it live for the world.
One price. Everything included.
Last-minute summer dealEnroll risk-free. Full refund up to a week before you start — and even after the first module if it’s not a fit. Details
- Full course access — every project, every video
- Access to Claude Code (with safety & guardrails)
- 20 million LLM tokens included
- Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and OpenClaw instruction
- Amazon Web Services hosting for course projects (6 months)
- SQLite and MongoDB access for database projects
This checkout runs on Stripe — your child builds an online store with one as their capstone.
Ready when you are.
Secure card payment via Stripe. You’ll get a receipt and onboarding details by email right after checkout.
Next cohort starts Monday, July 27
Enroll your child — $399