You write the code
Fifty-four guided labs, and a mastery check at the end of every module that you pass with working code. Nothing is awarded for watching a video to the end.
For students, parents & professionals
Learn AI by building one, not by watching someone build one
Eight modules, self-paced, in lessons of two to seven minutes. You write Python in the first one and finish having built and tuned a neural network you can explain. The same program U.S. schools teach, open to anyone aged 11 and up.
Why this one
Most AI courses teach you to operate a tool
You can learn to prompt a chatbot in an afternoon, for free, and the skill moves every time a model is updated. Understanding how a model learns does not expire that way, and it is the part nobody can shortcut for you.
Two to seven minutes a lesson
Built on spaced repetition, so a lesson fits a commute or a lunch break. Self-paced, no fixed dates, pause when life happens, and nothing expires.
A credential that verifies
Five level certificates and eight module badges, each digitally verifiable in one click with the graded work attached. Not a PDF you print yourself.
Learning on your own
Short lessons that fit a real week
Lessons run two to seven minutes and end in something that runs. Five credentials, nothing expires, and you can stop and come back without losing your place.
Who takes it
Three people, one program
Everyone follows the same eight modules to the same standard. What differs is the pace and what you are trying to get out of the other end.
School and college students
Age 11 and up, with no coding assumed. Two modules a year sits alongside schoolwork comfortably, and you can go faster if you want to. You end up with a neural network you built and can talk about for twenty minutes without notes.
Parents buying for a child
You can be added as a guardian on the account and follow one progress record: the baseline, each module check, each graded project. No advertising to children, and data you can ask to see, correct or delete at any time.
Professionals and career changers
Developers, analysts, engineers, technical managers. Start from your real level with the Foundations Challenge, skip nothing that matters, and finish able to judge a model instead of trusting a dashboard. Ask us for an employer-funding summary.
How it actually goes
From the Foundations Challenge to a capstone model
There is no application and no interview. You start by finding out where you actually are, then work module by module.
- A 30-minute Foundations Challenge. It sets your baseline, so the progress you see later is real movement rather than a feeling.
- Eight modules across five levels. Theory, a quiz, a guided lab, a lab quiz, then a mastery check you pass with code that runs.
- A graded artifact at each level. Graded against a rubric you can read before you start it, not a mystery score.
- Demo walkthroughs and a learner community. For when a lab will not cooperate at eleven at night, which it will.
- A capstone model. Built in Keras and TensorFlow by you, and yours to show anyone.
The thing we will not say
We are not going to tell you this helps with college admissions
It is the most common promise in this market and it does not hold up. Asked how much weight summer enrichment programs carry in admissions, Brown’s dean of admissions answered: zero. Any course selling itself to you on that basis is selling you something it cannot deliver.
What a student can genuinely use is the work. A neural network they built, a rubric-graded artifact, a credential an admissions officer or an interviewer can verify in one click, and the ability to explain the whole thing out loud. That is worth something in a conversation. A certificate of attendance is not.
Before you enroll
Fair questions
No. Module one starts with your first line of Python. No coding or machine learning is assumed, and the Foundations Challenge sets your starting point so you are not sitting through things you already know.
About 53 hours of work across the eight modules. School students usually spread it over their school years at two modules a year. An adult alongside a job tends to move much faster. Nothing expires, so pausing costs you nothing but time.
Individual enrollment is priced on the AI Ninjas platform, where you can also see the current enrollment terms. If your employer might fund it, ask us for a summary written for a manager rather than for a learner.
Yes, the same eight modules and the same mastery standard. A school cohort gets a trained teacher in the room and the school gets reporting; a self-paced learner gets the community and the demo walkthroughs instead. The credential means the same thing either way.
Yes, and many do before proposing it to their school. If you then want to run it with a class, your school can start a free one-class pilot and you would get the teacher onboarding as part of it.
Only what the program needs is collected, it is never sold and children are never advertised to. The platform is designed against IEEE 2089-2021, the age-appropriate design standard for children’s services. You can ask to see, correct or delete a record at any time. The full policy is published.
Start
Begin with the 30-minute challenge
Find out where you actually are, then take module one. If you are choosing for a child, or for a classroom, we are happy to talk it through first.