The next decade belongs to kids who can build with AI. Not the ones who use it to cheat, and not the ones who avoid it out of fear. The ones who treat it the way a previous generation treated a soldering iron, a guitar, or a laptop.
Two shapes, one room.
The model is a library and a clubhouse, side by side. A library is calm, curious, and serious about what it puts on the shelves — primary sources, editorial restraint, work that's been thought through. A clubhouse is warm, weird, and yours — robots half-built on the floor, finished projects on display like trophies, the kind of room a kid wants to come back to without being told.
Most kids' programs pick one shape. The strict tutoring center, all library and no clubhouse, makes kids dread the chair. The unstructured "innovation space," all clubhouse and no library, makes parents wonder where the rigor went. We've put both in one building because that's how kids actually learn.
Not a camp. Not a class.
We're not a one-week robot camp that ends in a foam medal. We're not a Saturday class with a worksheet packet. We're a place — a real, physical place in Richmond, Virginia — where kids come weekly for the years that matter, ages 8 through 16, building real things with real tools alongside grown-ups who actually do this work.
The Builder Fellowship.
We started Hi, Bot with one rule we won't break: cost is never the reason a kid doesn't build. The Builder Fellowship covers full tuition for families who can't pay sticker, funded by founding members and sponsors. We reserve 1–3 seats per cohort at full scholarship. It's not a marketing line. It's the spine.
Where we are.
Richmond, VA. Doors open Fall 2026. Open houses start summer 2026 — join the waitlist to be first in.