Real coding & AI for Kiwi students — from primary, through NCEA, to the University of Auckland and beyond.

We deliver as an education-services provider registered outside New Zealand, which is why no NZ GST applies to your bill. Delivery is online-only — there is no NZ office. We issue cross-border invoices in USD if needed.

Yes. Direct alignment with NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 Digital Technologies — both Achievement Standards and Unit Standards. We work from the NZQA-published assessment criteria and exemplars.

Each NCEA standard is graded Excellence / Merit / Achieved / Not Achieved. Excellence credits are the most differentiating for university applications and scholarships. We don't claim every student gets Excellence — we explicitly target it as the bar.

Yes — this is one of our strongest areas. We have mentors who personally taught NCEA L2/L3 DT at Auckland Grammar, St Andrew's College Christchurch, Wellington College and Macleans. They know what NZQA moderators reward.

Yes — full Cambridge International AS & A Level CS coverage (9608 / 9618). Common for Auckland International College, Pinehurst, ACG, and a handful of other CIE-pathway NZ schools.

Yes. IB Computer Science HL & SL with ex-IB-examiner support. Internal Assessment scaffolding is a particular strength. Common for ACG, AIC, Pinehurst (some pathways), and other IB-track NZ schools.

Yes — algorithms, data structures, dynamic programming, competitive programming. We've coached students through NZOI selection rounds. Most NZOI-bound students come to us in Year 10 or 11 and work intensively for 8 – 18 months.

Yes — team coaching for university-level NZPC events. About 1 in 6 of our advanced Y13 students continue into university and compete in NZPC during first-year or second-year.

NZST (UTC+12) in winter, NZDT (UTC+13) in summer. Most mentors are based in India (IST, 6.5–7.5 hours behind), so a 4 pm NZ class is 9:30 am IST — normal teaching hours on both ends. UK mentors deliver in their morning to your afternoon.

Private 1:1 mentorship is USD 150 per month — 8 sessions, two each week. Small-group cohort is USD 100 per month. No NZ GST. No joining fee.

Billing is in USD, by Visa or Mastercard or international bank transfer. Your card issuer handles any currency conversion on its own terms.

Yes. Some NZ schools use BYOD policies and some issue school-managed Chromebooks. We have a school-laptop setup path (VS Code in the browser via GitHub Codespaces, sandboxed Python). The mentor handles setup during the first class.

Every mentor undergoes a structured 4-step interview, paid trial-teaching, and an Indian / UK-equivalent of a Police Vetting / DBS check. Many hold a Master's or PhD in Computer Science.

You ask, we switch — free, within 48 hours.

Yes — automatically. During NCEA externals (typically early November) and internal-assessment due weeks, we reduce intensity, switch to lighter review sessions, or pause entirely. No bill changes.

Code itself is in English (Python keywords are English; GitHub is English — universal). But for kura kaupapa or Māori-medium learners, we can pair them with a Te Reo Māori-fluent mentor who explains concepts in Te Reo and walks through code in English.

Online means location doesn't matter. We have students in Invercargill, Kaitaia, Westport, Greymouth, Whakatāne, Gisborne getting the same quality as Auckland CBD families. As long as the internet is stable, the mentor works.

Yes. Common from Diocesan, Baradene, St Cuthbert's, Marsden, Wellington Girls', Otago Girls' families. All-female mentor pool. Identical curriculum, depth and pricing.

One email. No phone call required. No retention agent will hassle you. We stop billing on the cancellation date — no notice period, no last-month trick.

Under-13s never interact with raw LLM APIs without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters and a sandbox-only rule.

The mentor stays. Only the time zone changes. Many Kiwi families have relocated to Sydney, Melbourne, London, San Francisco mid-year with us and never switched providers.

Yes — a small annual scholarship pool for high-potential students whose families can't comfortably afford USD 150 / month. Email a short note from the parent + a piece of work from the child. We award 8 – 12 NZ scholarships per academic year.

Sessions pause automatically during the official NZ school summer break unless the family specifically wants summer-intensive blocks (which many do). No need to email us.

Default is Zoom — most NZ families are familiar with it. If your school or family prefers Teams or Google Meet, mentors will use whichever you prefer.

Yes — about 1 in 8 of our advanced NZ students apply to AU Go8 universities (Melbourne, Sydney, UNSW, Monash) or UK Russell Group via UCAS. We help shape personal statements and project portfolios. We don't write essays for students, ever.

Generally yes — we have direct ex-teacher experience from Auckland Grammar, Macleans, Westlake Boys, Wellington College, St Andrew's Christchurch and others. For schools we haven't directly taught at, the mentor will spend the first session understanding your child's specific Achievement Standards mix.

Yes — primary is one of our fastest-growing NZ cohorts. We don't push hard; primary-age is about building curiosity and confidence. Two 30-45 minute sessions a week, Scratch & ScratchJr at first, real Python by month four, real GitHub by month six.

Yes. About 14% of our NZ students have a learning difference. We adapt pacing, lesson structure, and screen-formatting on request. Honest disclosure of needs on the callback lets us match to the right mentor — we have several mentors who specialise in supporting neurodivergent learners.

We can email your child's BOT or HoD-Digital-Technologies a short letter outlining what we're covering. Several NZ schools have welcomed this — it lets the classroom teacher coordinate around the external mentorship. We don't insist on this; it's optional.

If NCEA L3 Digital Technologies is one of those 5, then we're directly useful — we cover the standards they're being assessed on, with 1:1 depth their school class size can't match. If DT is NOT in their 5, we'd suggest a different mentor (maybe NCEA Maths or Physics support). We won't push you into the wrong fit.

Two 45-minute sessions per week. We coordinate around sports trips, school camps, and exam fortnights. Most Kiwi teens find the coding work actually relaxing compared to the NCEA portfolio grind.

Under-13s never interact with raw LLM APIs without a mentor present. Age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters, sandbox-only rule.

Of course. Just ask on the callback. All-female mentor pool with identical curriculum, depth and pricing.

No. Online means location doesn't matter. We have students in Invercargill, Bluff, Kaitaia, Westport getting the same quality as Remuera kids. The mentor is more likely to make a regional joke about your rugby team than to ask "where's that?"

None of our mentors are. Every mentor is a full-time professional educator with 5+ years of teaching experience and a structured interview pipeline before they ever meet a NZ family.

Yes — especially yes. Strong NCEA L3 (with Excellence credits) plus a real GitHub portfolio is exactly what Melbourne, Sydney, UNSW, ANU, Monash and UQ look for in NZ-applicants. About 1 in 6 of our advanced NZ students target an Australian Go8 university.

Be honest on the callback. We have a small annual scholarship pool (8 – 12 awards / year, 50%–100% off monthly fee). We also have a cohort option at USD 100 which is a meaningfully smaller commitment. We'd rather help you find an option that fits than lose you to a "no fit at any price" outcome.

Yes. We don't make assumptions about who teaches whom. Several mentors are openly LGBTQIA+. We ask preference (mentor gender, communication style) on the callback and match accordingly. Zero questions asked.

We do our best. Several of our NZ-based mentors have direct Pasifika cultural literacy. We don't claim deep expertise — but we listen, we adapt, and we respect when a family wants the mentor to understand the rhythm of fale-fa'a-tamāli'i, church-Sunday and aiga obligations around scheduling. Honest disclosure on the callback always helps.

Yes, in our experience. Zoom in low-bandwidth mode plus a backup phone call if Zoom drops out — we've maintained classes through Far-North storms, West-Coast outages, and Coromandel cyclone-recovery weeks. Sessions are recorded so a missed minute doesn't matter.

Several of our mentors have specific neurodivergent-supporting training and direct lived experience teaching autistic students. Honest disclosure on the callback lets us match well; we'll quietly favour structure, predictable lesson formats and clear sensory-friendly Zoom settings.