// what you will learn
Artificial Intelligence, explained by building it.
Over 16 one-hour classes students go from “what is AI?” to shipping a website, an app, a chatbot and a voice assistant they built themselves.
// what they learn
- ▪Core AI Concepts: What AI is, how machine learning and data work, and where AI already turns up in YouTube, games, Alexa and maps.
- ▪Training Your Own Model: Google Teachable Machine. Train AI on images, sounds and poses, test it on classmates and find out where it gets things wrong.
- ▪Building with No-Code AI: Create a real personal webpage with Lovable and generate AI voice-over scripts with OpenAI.fm.
- ▪Apps & Prototypes with v0.dev: Turn an idea into a working quiz, game or calculator, then share and test it with the rest of the class.
// going further
- ▪ChatGPT & Claude, Side by Side: Ask both the same questions, compare creative and factual answers, and learn what each one is actually good at.
- ▪Chatbots: Text and Voice: Build a simple text chatbot, then extend it with voice input and output into a talking assistant.
- ▪Virtual Doctor with Groq Cloud: Explore how AI is used in healthcare, role-play with a virtual doctor, then debate whether it should replace one.
- ▪Ethics & Responsible Use: Bias, limitations, safe use and an honest look at what AI still cannot do.
// course outline
Eight weeks. Sixteen classes. Five things built.
Two one-hour classes a week. Every module ends with something on screen, not just something in a notebook.
W1
Lecture 1 & 2
Introduction to AI for Oceans · Exploring AI Around Us
- ▪What is AI?
- ▪How AI helps save oceans: plastic detection and climate monitoring
- ▪Fun examples of AI in nature & the environment
- ▪AI in YouTube, games, Alexa and maps
- ▪Difference between human intelligence & AI
- ▪Group quiz: ‘AI or Not AI?’
W2
Lecture 3 & 4
Teachable Machine Basics · Teachable Machine Activity
- ▪What is Google Teachable Machine?
- ▪Training AI with images and sounds
- ▪Hands-on: train a model to recognise poses or sounds
- ▪Test trained models with classmates
- ▪Discuss limitations & bias
- ▪Reflection: ‘Did the AI get it right?’
W3
Lecture 5 & 6
Website Creation with Lovable · Voice Script Generation
- ▪Introduction to Lovable, a no-code AI web builder
- ▪Activity: create a personal webpage
- ▪Explore templates and customisation
- ▪Intro to AI-generated voices with OpenAI.fm
- ▪Create simple voice-over scripts
- ▪Students generate scripts for their own websites
W4
Lecture 7 & 8
AI App Building with v0.dev · v0.dev Workshop
- ▪What is v0.dev?
- ▪How AI helps make small apps & prototypes
- ▪Demo: build a simple interactive app
- ▪Students create their own small app: a quiz, game or calculator
- ▪Share & test each other’s apps
W5
Lecture 9 & 10
Exploring ChatGPT · ChatGPT Hands-On
- ▪Intro to ChatGPT, text AI
- ▪Fun uses: stories, poems, Q&A
- ▪Activity: role-play with ChatGPT
- ▪Students create chatbot conversations
- ▪Compare creative vs factual outputs
- ▪Ethics: safe & responsible use
W6
Lecture 11 & 12
Exploring Claude AI · Claude Workshop
- ▪What is Claude (Anthropic’s AI)?
- ▪Compare with ChatGPT
- ▪Activity: ask both the same questions, see the differences
- ▪Team challenge: use Claude to generate a story, article or solution
- ▪Reflection: which AI did better?
W7
Lecture 13 & 14
Virtual Doctor with Groq Cloud · Virtual Doctor Activity
- ▪How AI is used in healthcare
- ▪Explore a virtual doctor demo
- ▪Discussion: can AI replace doctors?
- ▪Students role-play asking the virtual doctor
- ▪Group debate: AI in healthcare, pros & cons
W8
Lecture 15 & 16
Chatbots (Text + Voice) · Final Projects & Presentations
- ▪Build a simple text chatbot
- ▪Extend it with voice input/output
- ▪Demo: voice-activated chatbot assistant
- ▪Teams present: website, voice scripts, app, chatbot and virtual doctor
- ▪Quiz + certificate
// is this right for your child?
Who this is for.
Curious 12-year-olds and up
No coding background needed. Every tool in this course is no-code or low-code by design.
Kids who already use ChatGPT
Using AI casually is not the same as building with it. This is the step up.
Young gamers and YouTubers
They already live inside AI-powered products. This shows them what is under the hood.
Future engineers and scientists
An early, honest introduction to machine learning, data and model bias.
Kids who like making things
Websites, apps, chatbots and voice assistants. All built and demoed in eight weeks.
Parents planning ahead
AI literacy is turning into a baseline skill. Starting at 12 is a real advantage.
// see it in action
Watch BBT Kids on Instagram.
Class projects, build days, pitch days and student work, all posted as it happens on @bbtkids_.
// ai for kids faqs