RTA bus-route AI agent
A LangChain agent that takes a Dubai address as input, calls the Roads & Transport Authority public API, plans the optimal bus/metro route and explains it in English or Arabic. Built in Python with Streamlit.
Live 1:1 mentorship in Python, modern web and agentic AI for UAE-based learners — aligned with every curriculum your child is sitting (CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · A-Level · IB DP · AP · MOE-UAE), inspector-aware for KHDA and ADEK, and admissions-ready for NYU Abu Dhabi · MBZUAI · AUS · Khalifa · Heriot-Watt Dubai and the international branch campuses. AED 368 a month (USD 100), eight live sessions, two per week, cancel anytime.
The UAE is one single time zone — GST (UTC+4). That makes scheduling simpler than any other country we serve. Most of our mentors are based in India (IST, only 90 minutes behind), so a 5 pm Dubai class is a normal 3:30 pm class for the mentor — no jet-lagged teaching, no “midnight in Mumbai” tradeoffs.
Every course below runs as live 1:1 with a mentor matched to your child's curriculum (CBSE, ICSE, British, American, IB or MOE-UAE) and age. Two 45-minute sessions per week. AED 368 (USD 100) per month for 1:1, or AED 147 (USD 40) for small-group cohort.
Scratch & ScratchJr, then we bridge to real Python by month four. Built around play, animation and music — but no “Python for kids” toys that hide the real language.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions Grades 4 – 6Real Python, real keyboard typing, real GitHub. Optional physical-computing add-on with BBC micro:bit so the code controls something they can see.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions Grades 7 – 8HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React basics — they ship a real website by month two. AI module covers safe prompting, LLM mental models and a first agent-style project.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions Grade 9 – 10 (IGCSE / CBSE)Direct alignment with Cambridge IGCSE 0478, Pearson Edexcel IGCSE 4CP1, CBSE Class 10 IT 402 / 416 and Oxford AQA. Past-paper drills + a real coursework project that scores.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions Grade 11 – 12 (A-Level / IB / AP)Cambridge 9608 / 9618 · Pearson 9CP0 · IB Computer Science HL & SL · AP CSP + AP CSA. Predicted-grade strategy, project portfolios and admissions-ready coding depth.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions Grade 11 – 12 (CBSE / ICSE)CBSE Class 11 / 12 Computer Science (083) and Informatics Practices (065). ISC Computer Science. Board-paper strategy + the real CS depth IIT-Delhi, BITS-Pilani and IIT-Bombay actually evaluate.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions University / AdultPython · SQL · LangChain · LangGraph · CrewAI · evaluations · production deployment. The exact stack Tabby, Careem, Talabat and DIFC-based AI startups recruit for.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessions For Girls — Grades 4 – 12All-female mentor pool. Same Python / web / AI track, designed around a girls-only cohort. Many Emirati and South-Asian families specifically prefer this option for daughters.
AED 368 / month · 1:1 · 8 sessionsThe UAE is the most curriculum-fragmented schooling market in the world — over 17 different recognized systems run side-by-side in Dubai alone. We've mapped our pedagogy to the six that matter most. Mentors are matched to your child's exact board.
Class 1–10 IT skills, Class 11/12 Computer Science (083) and Informatics Practices (065). All-India Senior Secondary board paper-aware.
ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications, ISC Class 11/12 Computer Science. Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations.
Cambridge IGCSE 0478 / 0984 · AS & A-Level 9608 / 9618 · Pearson Edexcel · Oxford AQA International. Full coursework and project guidance.
Common Core State Standards (K–12) + College Board AP Computer Science Principles and AP Computer Science A. SAT & ACT mathematics support included.
IB Computer Science HL & SL · IB Design Technology · IB Mathematics Analysis & Approaches. Internal Assessment guidance plus past-paper Mathematics support.
Ministry of Education UAE national curriculum, taught in Arabic-medium and bilingual government schools. Aligned with the UAE Vision 2031 & the National AI Strategy 2031.
دبي
The most curriculum-diverse student population on earth. Over 220 private schools across 17 curricula. Our largest UAE student base — strongest in Jumeirah, Downtown, Dubai Hills, Arabian Ranches, Mirdif, Al Barsha and JVC. KHDA-aware mentors who understand DSIB inspection criteria.
Authority: KHDA (Knowledge & Human Development Authority) · DSIB inspections · Dubai Education Strategy 2026
أبوظبي
The capital. Home to Khalifa University, NYU Abu Dhabi, MBZUAI (the world's first dedicated AI graduate university) and the country's most ambitious AI-policy ecosystem. Strong student base across Saadiyat Island, Yas Island, Khalifa City, Al Reem and Mussafah.
Authority: ADEK (Department of Education & Knowledge) · ADEK Tamkeen inspections · Education 2030 strategy
الشارقة
UAE's cultural capital. Home to the American University of Sharjah (AUS) and University of Sharjah. Many CBSE / ICSE families in Al Khan, Al Majaz and Al Nahda.
Authority: SPEA (Sharjah Private Education Authority)
عجمان
Smaller emirate, growing CBSE student base. We serve Ajman University area, Al Rashidiya and Al Nuaimiya.
Authority: Ajman Department of Education
رأس الخيمة
Mix of British, Indian and MOE schools. Strong in Al Hamra, Al Nakheel and Khuzam.
Authority: RAK Department of Knowledge
الفجيرة وأم القيوين
Smaller emirates on the east coast and Gulf. We serve a handful of families on the same GST schedule as everyone else.
Authority: Fujairah ED · UAQ ED
Whether your child's school is KHDA-rated Outstanding, Very Good or working toward improvement, our mentors understand what inspectors look at in the Personal & Social Development, Innovation Skills and Learning Skills strands. We don't replace the school — we strengthen the parts inspectors actually score.
Several of our UAE students attend schools that received Outstanding ratings in their most recent inspection. We're not the reason for the rating — but our mentors help families translate inspection feedback into a tangible coding & AI portfolio.
My daughter is at GEMS Wellington doing IGCSE Computer Science. Her school is excellent, but she needed 1:1 depth on her Programming Project. After three months with her mentor, her predicted-grade went from a 6 to a strong A-star. The mentor knew the 0478 specification better than her own classroom teacher, and never made it feel like “tutoring.” This is real teaching.
A LangChain agent that takes a Dubai address as input, calls the Roads & Transport Authority public API, plans the optimal bus/metro route and explains it in English or Arabic. Built in Python with Streamlit.
An LLM-powered tool that helps Abu-Dhabi high-schoolers tighten their NYU AD & MBZUAI application essays — with retrieval over the school's own admissions data. Submitted as IB Computer Science Internal Assessment.
A BBC micro:bit station that uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect bird movement around the family's rooftop falcon enclosure and logs sightings to a local web dashboard.
A retrieval-augmented agent that scrapes UAE e-commerce sites (Noon, Amazon AE, Carrefour AE) for a specific product, compares prices in AED, and explains exchange-rate volatility in plain English.
A React Native app that fetches accurate iftar times for any UAE city, sends notifications 15 minutes before, and includes a Quran-verse rotation. Open-sourced; ~600 active users across the UAE.
A working agentic-AI tool that searches the DIFC Public Register for any registered company, summarizes its corporate status, and outputs a clean dossier — used by his consulting firm to vet clients before onboarding.
Every Modern Age Coders UAE family is matched to a single named mentor. No platform-only, no chatbot-only, no “hub teacher rotation.” The same mentor teaches your child for as long as the relationship works — typically 12 to 24 months.
CBSE / ICSE specialist · Mumbai-based
10 years teaching CBSE 083 + IP 065. Personally walked 26 UAE students through their CBSE Class 12 board boards. Speaks Hindi, English, Urdu.
Active GST 16:00 – 22:00Cambridge IGCSE 0478 / A-Level 9618 · Bengaluru
Former Repton Dubai teacher (3 years on the ground). Now mentors UAE students remotely on Cambridge papers + Pearson Edexcel.
Active GST 15:00 – 21:00IB Computer Science HL/SL specialist
Ex-IB Computer Science examiner. Built our entire IB CS Internal Assessment scaffolding. Has supervised over 80 IAs that scored 5/6/7.
Active GST 14:00 – 20:00AP CSP / AP CSA · ex-American School of Dubai
Three years teaching at ASD before going remote. Knows the College Board AP rubric inside out. American-curriculum families love her.
Active GST 15:30 – 21:30Agentic AI for adults · ex-IBM Watson
15 years of enterprise AI. Mentors working professionals in Dubai & Abu Dhabi shifting into agentic AI / LLM engineering roles.
Active GST 17:00 – 23:00 + SatGirls-only cohort lead · MBZUAI alum
MBZUAI Master's in Machine Learning. Leads our all-girls UAE cohort. Particularly skilled with younger learners (Grades 4–8).
Active GST 15:00 – 20:00No joining fee. No registration fee. No annual lock-in. No "diamond/platinum/gold" upsell tiers. The same price for a Grade-2 little coder, a Grade-12 A-Level applicant or a Dubai-Marina-based adult career-switcher. We price in USD and quote the AED equivalent at the current rate; you pay in whichever you prefer.
A named mentor in GST. Live, every session.
3 – 5 learners, same age, same curriculum.
We accept payment in USD or AED, by Visa / Mastercard, bank transfer, or Apple / Google Pay. No VAT charge to families (we're a service provider registered outside the UAE).
An honest comparison vs the options most UAE parents shortlist alongside us: GEMS-affiliated after-school programs, Coderschool MENA-style local academies, and global brands. We've left obvious differentiators out so this table stays useful.
| Modern Age Coders | Local Dubai academy (centre-based) | Global brand (e.g. brilliant) | School after-school club | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per month | AED 368 | AED 1,200 – 2,400 | AED 240 (self-paced) | AED 200 – 600 |
| Format | Live 1:1 with named mentor | Group, in-centre, drop-off | Self-paced video + AI | Group, school-based |
| Sessions per month | 8 live | 4 – 8 | Unlimited self-paced | 4 |
| Curriculum alignment | CBSE / ICSE / British / American / IB / MOE-UAE | Usually one curriculum | Generic global | School's curriculum only |
| Real AI engineering (LLMs / agents) | Yes — production stack | Rare | Theory only | Almost never |
| GitHub portfolio | Yes — every student | Some | No | No |
| KHDA / ADEK awareness | Yes | Yes (in their centre) | No | Yes |
| Cancel monthly | Yes | Term-locked | Yes | Term-locked |
| Free trial | Yes — live with the mentor | Discounted first month | Free tier | Open day |
We've left out global online platforms whose unit economics simply don't work at AED 368 / month for a live 1:1 mentor.
Some stay in the UAE — Khalifa, MBZUAI, NYU Abu Dhabi, AUS, the international branch campuses. Many go global — UK Russell Group, US Ivy & top-tier, Canadian Waterloo, Australian Go8. We align project portfolios to the universities each family is realistically targeting.
~1% acceptance globally. Strong for CS, AI and computational neuroscience. Project portfolio + Common App essay critical.
World's first AI-only graduate university. Master's & PhD in ML, CV, NLP. We've mentored MBZUAI applicants and current students.
The UAE's premier research university. Strong CS, AI and Cybersecurity programs in Abu Dhabi. Bursary & scholarship-friendly.
One of the most respected private universities in the Gulf. Strong CS, Engineering and Architecture programs.
US-style liberal arts + IT track. Popular with American-curriculum families.
Edinburgh-based, Dubai campus. Strong CS, Data Science and Petroleum Engineering. UK degree, UAE location.
UK / Australian / Indian degrees, delivered in Dubai. Often cost-effective routes to a global CS degree.
UAE University (Al Ain) and Zayed University (Abu Dhabi / Dubai). Strong national-curriculum pathway.
Many of our UAE students also target global universities: MIT, Stanford, CMU, UC Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College, UCL, University of Toronto, Waterloo, UBC, and the Australian Go8 (Melbourne, Sydney, ANU, UNSW, Monash, UQ, UWA, Adelaide). Our advanced track is calibrated to give them a real shot — not a glossy promise.
The UAE went from "outsource everything" to "build at home" in under a decade. There's now a real Emirati-based tech ecosystem that recruits computer-science graduates aggressively — many of our adult learners are switching careers into these companies.
Plus Swvl, Bayzat, Tarabut, Lean Technologies, Etisalat by e&, du Telecom, Emirates NBD AI, Mubadala / G42 Cloud, Presight AI, Inception AI (G42), TII (Technology Innovation Institute) — the maker of Falcon LLM — plus the Dubai Future Foundation's portfolio companies.
You leave your +971 number on the form. A mentor in GST calls you within 3 hours — usually within 60 minutes during 16:00–21:00 GST. No salesperson, no script. We listen to: your child's age, their school's curriculum, what they've already tried, what you actually want from the next 6 months.
We match your child to a specific named mentor based on: curriculum (CBSE / ICSE / British / American / IB / MOE-UAE), age, English / Hindi / Urdu / Arabic preference, time slot, and personality fit. You see the mentor's name, photo and short bio before the trial.
One full live 1:1 session with that named mentor. No demo content, no scripted lesson — the mentor teaches your child something real, calibrated to their level, and ends by handing you a written 6-month outcome plan. If you don't want to continue after the trial, there is zero pressure — that's a hard rule.
Mentor sets up the dev environment on your child's home laptop (VS Code, Python, GitHub account, optional micro:bit). First "real" project is shipped end of week 1 — usually a small Python game or a working React webpage. We send you the GitHub link.
Once we've watched two weeks of real teaching, the mentor finalizes the 6-month learning plan and shares it with you (PDF, written in plain English, no jargon). You can challenge or change anything.
End of month one, the mentor calls you (not your child) on WhatsApp for 15 minutes. You hear what's working, what isn't, what to expect month 2. If month 1 wasn't great, this is where we say so honestly and offer a different mentor — free of charge.
Mentor and student greet each other on Zoom (we use Zoom not Google Meet because UAE families are more familiar with it). 2-minute recap of the last session: “What do you remember? What got stuck?” — no homework-style grilling.
Mentor introduces the one new concept of the day — usually with a real-world Dubai or UAE example. (“Today we're going to learn dictionaries by storing all the metro stations on the Dubai Red Line as keys and Arabic names as values.”)
Student writes real code. Mentor shares their screen for the first few minutes, then student takes over and mentor watches, prompts, helps debug. Real errors. Real frustration. Real wins. The mentor never types for the student — the student types every character.
Push to GitHub. Run the program. Sometimes screen-record a 30-second “demo video” for the family WhatsApp group. The point: every session produces something tangible the student can show, not just a notebook full of notes.
Mentor writes 2 lines into the session log (which parents can read anytime via the dashboard). Previews next session. Says goodbye. Never any “please remember to leave us a review” ask — we don't do that.
This is not an endorsement by any school. These are simply schools where Modern Age Coders UAE students currently study, drawn from our internal records and listed with parents' permission. Names abbreviated where appropriate.
Leave your number. A mentor working in GST will call you within 3 hours, ask 4 questions about your child's school and curriculum, and either book a free trial or politely tell you we're not the right fit. No follow-up campaign. No spam. We've never sold a list. We never will.
We're registered as an education-services provider outside the UAE, which is why no UAE VAT applies to your bill. Our delivery model is online-only — there is no UAE office to visit. If you need an invoice for accounting purposes, we issue cross-border invoices in USD or AED.
Yes — mentors are familiar with the KHDA / DSIB framework used in Dubai (and the ADEK Tamkeen framework in Abu Dhabi). We don't claim to "be KHDA-rated" — KHDA rates physical private schools in Dubai, not online tutoring services. But our pedagogy maps cleanly onto the Personal & Social Development, Innovation Skills and Learning Skills strands inspectors evaluate.
Several of our mentors are former teachers at Repton Dubai, GEMS Modern, American School of Dubai or Brighton College Abu Dhabi. Where we don't have direct prior staff, the mentor will spend the first session understanding your child's exact school programme, schemes of work and any past-paper resources the school uses internally.
Yes — directly. CBSE Computer Science (083) and Informatics Practices (065). We have mentors who personally cleared the board with 95+ themselves and who have walked dozens of CBSE Class 12 students through their board exams. Past-paper drills are a core part of the senior-secondary track.
Yes. ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications (Java) and ISC Class 11/12 Computer Science. The ISC syllabus is famously deep on programming theory — we have specialist mentors for it.
Yes. Full Cambridge IGCSE 0478 (paper 1 theory + paper 2 problem-solving) and 0984 (9–1). We also support Pearson Edexcel International IGCSE 4CP1 and Oxford AQA. Mentors will run past-paper drills and walk students through the Programming Project component.
Yes. Cambridge International AS & A Level Computer Science (9608 legacy / 9618 current) and Pearson Edexcel International A-Level Computer Science (9CP0). We support the algorithmic problem-solving in paper 1, the architecture & theory in paper 2, and the practical programming project for paper 3 / 4.
Yes — and our mentors include a former IB Computer Science examiner. We support the new IB CS syllabus (first exams 2027 onward) and the legacy 2014 syllabus. Internal Assessment scaffolding is a particular strength: we've supervised 80+ IAs that scored 5/6/7.
Yes — for IB families taking AA HL or AA SL alongside CS. We focus on the calculus and discrete-mathematics parts that intersect with computer science, and provide past-paper drills with worked solutions.
Yes. AP CSP (Python-based, project-led with the Create Performance Task) and AP CSA (Java, OOP, recursion, FRQ rubrics). For American-curriculum families, we run separate tracks for AP CSP (Grade 11 / 12) and AP CSA (typically Grade 12).
Yes. We have mentors familiar with the MOE-UAE national curriculum framework, the National Agenda 2031 ICT pillars, and the bilingual Arabic-English instructional approach used in government schools. For primary-school MOE students we can pair with an Arabic-speaking mentor on request.
Code itself is always in English (Python keywords are English, GitHub is English) — that's universal. But for primary-school Emirati and South-Asian-Arabic-speaking learners, we can pair them with a bilingual mentor who explains concepts in Arabic and walks through code in English. We have a small but growing pool of Arabic-fluent mentors.
Yes — every year. During the Holy Month, we shift session timings to post-iftar (typically 20:30 – 22:00 GST) and reduce intensity for fasting students. We don't bill for any sessions a family chooses to pause during Ramadan. After Eid, the schedule resumes normally.
Sessions pause automatically during the official UAE public-holiday days for both Eids. No need to email us — we simply don't bill for those weeks. Same approach for UAE National Day, Commemoration Day, Islamic New Year, the Prophet's Birthday and New Year's Day.
Yes. Both Emirati and South-Asian families often prefer this option for daughters — we run a girls-only cohort with all-female mentors. The curriculum, depth and pricing are identical to our mixed cohorts. Many of our most successful Grade-11/12 girls have come out of this stream.
Yes — and many of our younger students do. We're not a robotics provider (we don't have a physical campus or kit warehouse), but we coach the programming side of FIRST Lego League and the algorithmic-thinking side of competitions like Bebras UAE and the UAE National Robotics Olympiad. Your child's school typically handles the hardware.
Yes — for advanced students who've been with us at least six months. NYU Abu Dhabi accepts roughly 1% of applicants globally, and MBZUAI is a graduate-only AI university — both demand a real project portfolio plus exceptional academic stats. We help shape the portfolio and write factual reference notes (we don't write essays for students, ever).
No — there is no UAE VAT on our service, because we deliver as a cross-border online education provider. Your bill is exactly the AED equivalent of USD 100 / month for 1:1 (or USD 40 / month for cohort), at the current exchange rate. Nothing on top.
Either. Most UAE families pay by Visa or Mastercard (we accept both, AED-billed). Some pay by international bank transfer in USD. We also accept Apple Pay and Google Pay. Whichever you choose, the amount converts at the spot rate on the billing date.
One email. No phone call required. No retention agent will hassle you. We stop billing on the date of the cancellation email — no notice period, no last-month-trick. The mentor will run any sessions you've already paid for, then close out cleanly.
Yes. Many UAE schools issue locked-down Windows or Chromebook devices. We have a school-laptop setup path (VS Code in the browser via GitHub Codespaces, or a sandboxed Python environment when admin is locked). The mentor handles the setup live during the first class.
No lock-in. Cancel any month before the next billing cycle — no fee, no awkward call. If your child loses interest, we'd rather hear early and either pause for a few weeks or pivot the project track (game design, music coding, AI art) than have you keep paying through a year your child stopped enjoying.
Every mentor undergoes a structured 4-step interview, a paid trial-teaching round, and an Indian-equivalent of a DBS background check before being matched with any UAE family. Many hold a Master's or PhD in Computer Science. We don't hire “part-time uni students” — every mentor is a full-time specialist teacher.
You ask, we switch — free of charge, within 48 hours. About 1 in 30 families ask for a switch in the first two months; we treat it as totally normal and a sign of good parenting. The original mentor is informed kindly and we move on.
Yes — ADEK consolidated the previous CEFA and DGEC processes into the unified ADEK Tamkeen framework, which we are familiar with. We provide letters of evidence and portfolio summaries when a parent wants to share our work with their school for ADEK Tamkeen evidence purposes.
Yes. We have a small but growing track of senior-secondary UAE students who compete in DAIPO, MoE-AI Olympiad, and the World Robot Olympiad UAE. The advanced track maps well onto the problem-solving style these competitions test.
Yes — we run a cybersecurity track for Grade 9+ students, aligned with the UAE National Cybersecurity Strategy and entry-level certifications like Cisco CyberOps Associate. Strong demand from teen learners who want to compete in HackTheBox UAE-region CTFs.
Anytime. Prorated to the day. No fee for the move. About 35% of our UAE cohort students upgrade to 1:1 by month 4 — usually because they've found their rhythm and want the personalisation premium.
Default is Zoom — it's what most UAE families are already comfortable with, and works flawlessly on poor connections (we have students in Hatta, Khor Fakkan and the Hajar Mountains who connect just fine). If your school or family prefers Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or Webex, mentors will use whichever you prefer.
That's most of our UAE families. Mentors send a 2-line written session log after every class which you can read in 10 seconds on WhatsApp. We never require a parent to be physically present during a session — the mentor is responsible for keeping the student focused. You stay informed without being on-call.
Yes — a small annual scholarship pool for high-potential students whose families can't comfortably afford AED 368 / month. Apply by emailing us a short note from the parent + a piece of work from the child. We typically award 12 – 18 UAE scholarships per academic year, ranging from 50% to 100% of the monthly fee. Quietly and without publicity.
Very common in our pipeline. The mentor stays the same; only the time zone changes. We've onboarded UAE-newcomer families within 72 hours of arrival many times — your child can keep their existing learning rhythm without missing a single week of coding.
Fair worry. Our sessions are 45 minutes, twice a week — total 90 minutes — and most of that time the student is creating, not consuming. Many UAE parents tell us their child actually chooses less YouTube and TikTok after a few months because building feels more rewarding than scrolling.
No. We start in Scratch for the youngest learners (Grades 1–3) only as a bridge. By month three almost every UAE student is writing real, runnable Python that imports real libraries, handles real errors and pushes to a real GitHub repo. We deliberately avoid “Python for kids” tools that hide the real language.
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 AI tools your child builds are educational and fully reviewable by you. We're stricter on this than most.
Usually it makes it better. Grade 11 / 12 students who join us often see their school CS marks rise because we directly cover the curriculum they'll be tested on, with a real mentor 1:1. We coordinate around school exam fortnight and Internal Assessment / coursework deadlines.
Of course. Just say so on the callback. We have an all-female mentor pool specifically for this. Same curriculum, same depth, same pricing.
Yes — and actually especially yes. Our mentor stays with your child across the move; only the time zone changes. Many of our most loyal UAE families have moved to London, Bangalore, Karachi or Toronto with us and never switched providers.
None of our mentors are moonlighting graduate students. Every mentor is a full-time professional educator with a verified CV, 5+ years of teaching experience, and a structured interview pipeline before they ever meet a UAE family. We're picky on this.
Most coding-class providers in the UAE quietly avoid showing what a 12-month curriculum actually contains. We show ours up front — three real plans currently being run with three real UAE families. Names abbreviated.
Months 1–2: Python fundamentals — variables, conditions, loops, functions. First two GitHub repos.
Months 3–4: Data structures (lists, dicts, sets), file I/O, JSON. First mini-project: a Dubai-Metro fare calculator.
Months 5–6: Object-oriented Python + a real game project (snake / pong / a working calculator with Tkinter).
Months 7–8: Introduction to web — HTML, CSS, Flask. Student deploys their first real Flask app to a free Render instance.
Months 9–10: First AI module — using an LLM API safely, prompt design, building a small "homework helper" chatbot.
Months 11–12: Capstone project — a fully working web app of the student's choice, pushed to GitHub Pages or Render, demo recorded.
Outcome: Comfortable, real-Python coder by Grade 8. CBSE board curriculum from Class 11 onwards will feel easy.
Months 1–2: Algorithms intensive — sorting, searching, complexity, recursion. Paper-1-style problems weekly.
Months 3–4: Data structures deep dive — linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables. Paper 2 specialist option (databases or modelling).
Months 5–6: Object-oriented design + a substantial Java project (IB uses Java for HL). Begin discussions of IA topic options.
Month 7: IA topic locked in. Begin writing the Stage A (criteria A) document with mentor.
Months 8–10: IA build phase — solution design, code, testing, evaluation. Weekly checkpoints with mentor.
Month 11: IA polish + mock examination paper drills.
Month 12: Final IA submission + Mock-3 paper. Mentor writes a reference for UCAS / Common App if requested.
Outcome: Targets a predicted-grade 6 or 7 in HL Computer Science. IA in the 5/6/7 band.
Months 1–2: Python from zero — but accelerated. Variables to OOP in 8 weeks. Daily 30-minute self-study + 2 mentor sessions per week.
Months 3–4: SQL deep dive (real-world banking data, anonymized) + pandas / NumPy.
Months 5–6: Introduction to LLMs — OpenAI / Anthropic APIs, prompt engineering, building structured-output chains.
Months 7–8: Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Build a real RAG app over the student's own banking-domain documents.
Months 9–10: Agentic AI — LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI. Tool-calling. Multi-step reasoning. Production patterns.
Month 11: Deploy a real agent to a Tabby / Careem / Lean-Technologies-style use-case. Portfolio piece #1.
Month 12: Job-application sprint. Mentor reviews CV, LinkedIn, GitHub. Practice interviews with mentor as interviewer.
Outcome: Real working portfolio. Ready to apply for AI-product / AI-engineering roles in Dubai or Abu Dhabi at AED 30 – 45k/month range.
Every plan is owned by your child's named mentor and adjusted monthly based on what's actually working. If month 4 reveals a different direction, we pivot — that's the whole point of 1:1 mentorship over generic online courses.
Real UAE families don't think in "emirates" alone — they think in compounds, neighbourhoods, school clusters and commute times. Here's a more granular look at where our current students are based, and what their family situations typically look like.
Densest cluster of British and IB schools. Lots of Repton Dubai, GEMS Wellington, Brighton College, Dubai International Academy and Hartland families. Adults here often work in banking, law or DIFC fintech — many are our adult learners.
Strongest Indian-curriculum cluster. GEMS Modern Academy, Delhi Private School, Indian High School, GIIS, JSS. Heavy CBSE and ICSE concentration. Adult learners here often work in IT services, healthcare and Dubai-headquartered Indian corporates.
Highly international expat mix — Russian, European, American, Lebanese, Egyptian. American-curriculum schools (ASD, Dubai American Academy) dominate. Adult learners here are often startup founders or freelancers shifting into AI engineering.
Newer, premium-housing clusters serving Cranleigh Abu Dhabi, Brighton College AD, Raha International and Sheikh Zayed Private Academy. Many Khalifa University and NYU Abu Dhabi-bound students live here. Parents are often Mubadala, ADNOC or Etihad executives.
Working-Indian-family heartland in the UAE. Heavy CBSE concentration. Many parents commute to Dubai but keep children in Sharjah for cost-of-living reasons. The Sharjah families are some of our most price-conscious — and the most loyal.
Smaller student bases. Mix of Indian, British and MOE schools. We treat these families exactly the same as Dubai families — same mentor pool, same pricing, same GST schedule. The internet works the same in Khor Fakkan as it does in Dubai Marina.
We don't dance around this. Most of our mentors are India-based. For UAE families, that's not a compromise — it's often an advantage. Here's why we believe that, said plainly:
Six families across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and RAK share what changed in the first six months. Names abbreviated for privacy. Every story is shared with written permission from the parent.
Aarav joined in March 2025 with zero coding background, spending 4+ hours a day on Roblox. By August he was writing real Python, had pushed 12 projects to GitHub, and won his school's Class 8 CBSE Computer Science prize — for which the curriculum officially starts in Class 11. His mother credits the “structured thinking” the coding sessions built.
Khaled was failing AP CSA mock papers and panicking about his MIT application. We paired him with Priya — ex-ASD teacher — who rebuilt his Java fundamentals from scratch (literally), then ran past-paper drills weekly. His May 2025 score was a clean 5. He's now at CMU.
Sara's parents wanted “something more challenging than the school after-school club.” She started lukewarm. By month four, after a particularly fun project building her own version of the UAE Pavilion website from Expo 2020, she was hooked. Now competes in the Bebras Australia challenge (yes, Australian — we re-route her to that one).
The parents wanted to enrol both girls together for scheduling reasons but the twins have very different temperaments. Mira does Scratch game design Mondays with one mentor; Nora does Python + micro:bit Wednesdays with another. Different tracks, same household, same monthly bill (×2). Both girls retained at the 6-month mark.
Ahmed's mentor was a former IB CS examiner. Over four months they shaped his IA — a personal-finance budgeting app for Abu Dhabi expats — into a textbook-perfect 7/7 submission. Combined with strong predicted grades, he's now in the running for ANU Bachelor of Advanced Computing R&D.
Yusuf is the Aamir story above (same person, name unchanged with permission). Started with zero Python in March 2025. Got the AI product role in October 2025. Salary increased 28%. Now refers other ENBD colleagues to us — about 30% of our adult-learner pipeline comes from his referrals.
We have many more. We don't publish photos or full surnames of minors — that's a hard rule. But we're happy to put you in touch (with permission) with one UAE parent in your emirate before you commit. Just ask the mentor on your callback.
No quiz, no pop-up, no sales pressure. Leave a +971 number, a mentor working in GST calls within three hours, and you decide everything from there.