No lessons. No worksheets. You show up, get a challenge, and spend the weekend building something real, using AI tools that most adults haven't figured out yet. You might just leave with the beginnings of something actually worth doing.
I want in →You're grouped with 3 others. You get a real-world challenge, deliberately open-ended. Your first job is deciding how you're actually going to tackle it.
Using AI tools, you turn your idea into something real. A working app. A smart tool. A prototype you can actually demo. No coding experience needed: the AI handles that part.
More build time. More ideas. Mentors help when you're stuck. Everything freezes at 12:30: whatever you have, that's what you're presenting.
Five minutes. Your idea, your demo, your pitch. Judges from real businesses give you real feedback. The best team wins, but everyone leaves with something worth showing off.
Every major app, brand, and business started as someone's idea, usually a pretty simple one. The difference between that person and everyone else wasn't luck. It was that they actually built something and showed people.
In two days, with AI doing the heavy lifting, you can build a working version of an idea that would have taken months even five years ago. What you do with it after is up to you.
Pick an actual shop or restaurant. Find what's broken. Build something that fixes it. Pitch it to the owner.
Create an AI assistant that handles customer questions so a small business doesn't have to.
You've got £500 and a weekend. Design a micro-business that could make its first sale within two weeks.
Use sensors and circuits to detect something in the physical world, then make it actually useful.
It's a weekend building challenge for teenagers. They show up, get put in a team, tackle a real-world brief, and use AI tools to build something they can actually show people. No experience needed. Seriously.
Small teams of teenagers are each given a challenge: something real, like fixing a local business's website, or building a tool that saves someone time. They spend two days figuring out how to tackle it, using AI to help them build a working solution. Then they stand up in front of a panel and explain what they made.
That's it. No lectures. No tests. Just a team, a challenge, and two days to actually do something with it.
Coding classes teach children to follow instructions. This teaches them to figure things out when there are no instructions. That's a completely different skill, and honestly, it's the one that matters more.
The world is changing fast. AI is doing a lot of the routine stuff already. The children who'll do well aren't necessarily the ones who can write code. They're the ones who know how to spot a problem, think it through, and get something done. That's what a weekend like this builds.
Not a drawing of an idea. An actual working thing they built, that they can show anyone.
To real people. That's a big deal. Most adults find that terrifying. They'll have done it before they're 18.
Hard to put on a CV. Impossible to fake in an interview. Comes from actually doing something hard and finishing it.
University applications. Job interviews. "Tell me about a time you solved a problem." They'll have a genuine answer.