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Hi, Bot

Library open now · Open houses Summer 2027

A library.
A clubhouse.
For kids who want to
build with AI.

Hi, Bot is where kids ages 8–16 learn AI the way kids actually learn things — by making weird stuff that works, with people who know how, in a place that feels good to be in.

14-day free trial · Or lock founder pricing on the waitlist

Program lineup & list prices — memberships, after-school, camps, workshops, and parties. See the programs.

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The four zones

Four ways to build with AI. All four are online today.

We built these four zones around the way kids actually learn — by interest, by hand, by showing each other. (A fair amount of it was mapped out with the founder's own daughter.) Each one is a self-paced online track right now; each one becomes a room when the clubhouse opens. Pick one. Try them all.

AI Arena

Ages 11–16

Strategy games & competitive AI — play, coach, ship agents.

Kids design, train, and tune small AIs for head-to-head play — strategy boards, RL game players, prompt-arena bots — with coaching after matches. Public leaderboards. Quarterly tournaments.

Build Studio

Ages 10–16

Apps, games, short films — AI as co-creator and reviewer.

An open shop where kids design and launch real things — websites, games, tools, short films — using AI for design, scaffolding, and code review. Output is the rubric, not screen time.

Robotics & Physical AI

Ages 8–16

LEGO-class builds to competition-ready bots. AI on-device.

Build robots that can see, think, and move. Kids start with beginner-friendly kits like LEGO Spike and VEX, then add sensors, servos, and cameras — using AI to help debug the code. The robots navigate, sort objects, race, and play. Hands get dirty.

AIPreneurship Lab

Ages 12–16

Ship a small thing. Learn pricing, demos, and iteration.

Kids build an AI-powered tool people might actually use — a tutoring helper, a club workflow bot, a printable workbook generator — and practice the full loop: interviews, demos, iteration, and a public showcase. Some may even pilot their project with a real customer — always with mentor guidance and family approval.

Start online today

Open houses start Summer 2027.
The library is already open.

While we build the physical space in Richmond, everything that makes Hi, Bot Hi, Bot is online right now — a growing library of AI activities your kid can start this afternoon. No wait, no waitlist.

Activities Pass

A whole library, $5/mo.

Brain games, writing studios, math and science challenges, and hands-on experiments — educational, parent-approved, and school-safe. New activities added every week.

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Our shape

The library, and the clubhouse.

A library is calm, curious, and serious about what it puts on the shelves. A clubhouse is warm, weird, and yours. Most kids' programs pick one. We've built both, side-by-side, in one room.

Hi, Bot is editorial in voice — we believe in primary sources, in showing your work, in the dignity of being eight or eleven or fifteen and meaning what you say. And it's a clubhouse in practice — robots half-built on the floor, snacks, sticker walls, finished projects on display like trophies.

We are a structured workshop, not open-ended passive screen time. The goal is skills and projects you can point to — mentors set the bar, kids drive the keyboard.

8–16
Ages we serve
4
Zones in one space
1:6
Mentor-to-builder ratio
100%
Of work is the kid's

How it works

Three steps from "what's this?" to your kid showing you something they built.

  1. 01

    Try a zone tonight

    Open a free track project or start an online zone with an Activities Pass. No open house to wait for. Your kid will know within thirty minutes.

  2. 02

    Pick a track

    Four zones, self-paced, with project briefs that end in something they can show you. Go deep on one or sample all four.

  3. 03

    Build, show, repeat

    Every track ends in something shippable — a working thing friends and family can actually try, and watching them stand a little taller.

From the founder

"The kids who learn to build with AI — not just use it, not just avoid it — are going to do extraordinary things. We made the place we wish we'd had."
Hi, Bot— Rob, founder

Save your spot

Open houses start Summer 2027. Spots will fill.

Join the waitlist and lock in founding-member pricing. You'll be first to know about open houses, summer programs, and the Builder Fellowship — need-based tuition support for families who qualify.

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