› Now boarding · Richmond, VA · Fall 2026
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.
Join the waitlist now and your founder pricing is locked in.
Program lineup & list prices — memberships, after-school, camps, workshops, and parties.
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› The four zones
One building. Four ways to build with AI.
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.) Pick one. Try them all.
AI Arena
Ages 11–16Strategy 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.
Sample projectsBuild Studio
Ages 10–16Apps, 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.
Sample projectsRobotics & Physical AI
Ages 8–16LEGO-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.
Sample projectsAIPreneurship Lab
Ages 12–16Ship 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.
Sample projects› 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.
› How it works
Three steps from "what's this?" to your kid showing you something they built.
- 01
Tour and try
A free Saturday open house. Try a zone. Eat a snack. Walk around. Your kid will know within thirty minutes.
- 02
Pick a track
Choose a weekly program or a 12-week cohort. One zone or a sampler. Mentors get to know your kid's interests.
- 03
Build, show, repeat
Every cohort ends in a public showcase. Friends, family, and neighbors come to see what your kid made — and watch them stand a little taller.
› From the founder
"The kids who learn to build with AI — not just use it, not just avoidit — are going to do extraordinary things. We made the place we wish we'd had."
› Save your spot
Doors open Fall 2026. 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.