Real coding & AI mentorship — built for American ambition.

Yes — both. Our middle and high school tracks align with AP CSP (Big Ideas 1–5, Python and pseudocode, Create Performance Task) and AP CSA (Java fundamentals, OOP, ArrayList, recursion, sorting, FRQ practice). Many of our committed students score 4 or 5 on either exam.

Yes — all four divisions: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum. We have dedicated Olympiad-style mentors who train students on ad-hoc, greedy, BFS/DFS, prefix sums, dynamic programming, segment trees and advanced graph algorithms depending on division. Past contest problems are drilled every season.

Yes. Our advanced track is built around what MIT EECS, Stanford CS, Carnegie Mellon SCS, UC Berkeley EECS, Caltech CS, Cornell CS, Princeton CS, Harvard CS and other selective programs look for: strong Python / Java, deep algorithms, USACO results, and a public portfolio of real shipped projects. We don't promise admission — we promise the foundation.

All six US time zones: Hawaii (HT, UTC −10), Alaska (AKT, −9), Pacific (PT, −8), Mountain (MT, −7), Central (CT, −6) and Eastern (ET, −5). You pick two weekly slots in your own zone; we never schedule a 1 AM lesson because the mentor lives somewhere else.

Private 1:1 mentorship is $100 per month for 8 sessions — two per week. Small-group cohort is $40 per month on the same schedule. No registration fee, no annual contract, month-to-month. Cancel any time before the next billing cycle, no fee.

No. Bootcamps compress 12 weeks of intense, transactional study aiming at a job change. We're the opposite: a slow, year-round 1:1 mentorship for all ages. Many adult learners join us before a bootcamp to be ready, or after a bootcamp to maintain momentum.

Real AI engineering. Students build LLM-powered applications end-to-end — prompting, structured output, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, evaluations and deployment. The same patterns shipped at OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, Meta and Microsoft.

Under-13s never operate raw LLM APIs against the open internet without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters and a "sandbox-only" rule. Parents see every prompt and every output. We're stricter on this than most.

Yes. We've supported students at Lynbrook, Mission San Jose, Monta Vista, Gunn, Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Hunter, TJ Virginia, Harker, Castilleja, Menlo, Phillips Exeter, Phillips Andover, Choate, Boston Latin, BASIS, and many ordinary public schools nationwide. Mentors adapt vocabulary to what your student is already hearing in class.

For students who have been with us at least six months, mentors write a short factual reference describing the projects shipped and skills observed. This is often used as evidence of independent technical work in Common App, UC, or supplemental essays.

We support all of these. Many of our students do FIRST Robotics, Code.org's CS Discoveries / CS Principles, or Hour of Code at school — and use us for deeper 1:1 mentorship on top. We coordinate with the school's pace where useful.

The first trial is always free. After that, you can cancel any time before the next billing cycle — no fee, no contract. If a month has just renewed and you'd like to stop, contact us within 7 days and we'll refund the unused portion.

You decide. Most American families pause across Thanksgiving week, winter break, spring break and various summer windows; some use breaks for a focused project sprint instead. Pause any month with one message to your mentor — no fee, no awkward conversation.

Yes, when their levels are close. Two siblings can share a 1:1 slot at a small discount. We typically recommend separate slots when their ages are more than two years apart, so neither is held back.

Yes — we issue a Modern Age Coders certificate of completion at each curriculum milestone (typically every six months), signed by the mentor, listing the projects shipped and skills demonstrated. Useful for Common App, UC application activity lists and scholarship applications.

Yes. Many of our American students compete in the Congressional App Challenge, MIT Battlecode, Stanford ProCo, regional hackathons and local high-school coding contests. Mentors help with team formation, project ideation and last-mile shipping.

Generally no for K-12 (coding tutoring isn't usually a qualified expense under FSA / HSA / 529). For adults: many of our adult learners are reimbursed through their employer's professional-development budget — we issue clean USD invoices that most American HR / Finance teams accept without trouble.

Yes. We have a steady cohort of American homeschool families across all 50 states. The 1:1 mentorship model fits homeschool rhythms unusually well — same mentor every week, fully customized pace, all online. We can also align with co-op groups (Classical Conversations, charter-school homeschool, Sudbury models).

VS Code, the terminal, Git and GitHub, Python 3, Node, modern browsers and a deploy target (Vercel, GitHub Pages or Hugging Face Spaces). For AI work: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs, Chroma / Pinecone for retrieval, LangGraph / Inngest for agents — the same tools used in production at top US AI shops.

Yes. Many US schools issue Chromebooks. We have a Chromebook-friendly setup path (VS Code in the browser via GitHub Codespaces, or a Linux subsystem when allowed). The mentor walks your student through the setup live in the first class.

Yes — many families intensify mentor support during AP-exam-prep windows. We can switch a normal weekly session to a focused past-paper drill, or schedule extra hours by the hour if helpful. There's no contract change; just message the mentor.

Yes — we have a dedicated Special For Girls track with all-female mentor pairing. Many of our female students are paired with mentors from FAANG, OpenAI, Anthropic and top US AI labs, which has been transformative for several of them in particular.

Mentors aim to reply within one US business day to written questions between classes — faster if there's an exam window or contest deadline approaching. For urgent setup problems before a class, WhatsApp or Slack tends to be the quickest channel.

Outschool, Juni and iD Tech are great mass-market introductions. We sit deeper in the funnel: 1:1 year-round mentorship, modern-AI curriculum, USACO / AP CSA coaching, and same-mentor-every-week. Many of our American families joined us after trying one of those first.

Fair worry. Our sessions are 45 minutes, twice a week — 90 minutes total per week — and most of that time the student is creating, not consuming. Mentors enforce screen-off breaks. Many of our American parents tell us their child actually chooses to spend less time on TikTok / YouTube Shorts / Roblox after a few months. There's a qualitative difference between making and scrolling.

No. We start in Scratch only for K – 3rd grade students, and only as a bridge. By month three almost every 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.

No lock-in. Cancel any month before the next billing cycle — no fee, no awkward call, no exit interview. If your child loses interest, we'd rather hear early and either pause or pivot the project track (game design, music coding, AI art) than have you white-knuckle through a year you paid for.

Under-13s never operate raw LLM APIs against the open internet without a mentor present. Age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters, "sandbox-only" rule. The AI tools your child builds are educational and reviewable by you — you see every prompt and every output. We're stricter than most.

Many of our most successful students started shy. The first lesson is structured around the code, not the camera — your child stares at VS Code, not at a stranger's face. Mentors are trained to give long pauses and no pressure. Most shy students are comfortable by lesson three; several have ended up more confident at school presentations as a side effect.

No. Bootcamps compress 12 weeks of intense study aiming at a job. We're the opposite: a slow, year-round 1:1 mentorship that respects how American school years work. We don't promise jobs after 12 weeks. We promise a real codebase, real GitHub history, real mentor relationship, real shift in your kid's relationship with code and math.

School AP CS is generally excellent at theory and group-paced lecture. What's harder in a classroom of 30 is depth, individual pace and modern AI engineering. Many of our American students take school AP CS AND us, and the two reinforce each other beautifully.

Yes. We adapt pace within a track — depth before raw speed. A gifted 10-year-old might finish "real Python" in four weeks instead of twelve and go straight into AI agents. A twice-exceptional student might need the same content delivered with very different scaffolding. The mentor adjusts week by week.

Yes. Many of our American students enter the Congressional App Challenge each year. Mentors help with idea selection, technical implementation, video pitch and submission timing. Multiple of our students have placed in their congressional district.

We don't run those programs, but we have helped students prepare strong applications and project portfolios for MIT-PRIMES, RSI, SSP and similar selective US summer programs. Mentor write-ups are routinely cited in those applications.

Yes. We support students on FIRST Robotics teams — particularly with the programming side (Java, Python, C++) and software-engineering practices. Many of our high-school students cite their FIRST team in their AP CSA NEA-style projects and college applications.

Yes. Several of our American students have IEPs or 504 plans. Mentors adapt pace, session structure and homework expectations to fit. We're not a clinical service but we've supported students with ADHD, dyslexia, autism and twice-exceptional profiles successfully.

Not automatically. We're not an accredited school. However, many homeschool families and a few flexible district counselors accept our progress reports as evidence for elective credit. Talk to your counselor first; we'll provide whatever written documentation you need.

Yes. For 11th and 12th graders we explicitly help structure project portfolios that map to Common App activities, UC PIQs (Personal Insight Questions) and supplemental essays — particularly for CS, EECS, AI / ML and engineering majors.

Yes — we've supported applicants for NCWIT AiC, Davidson Fellows, Coca-Cola Scholars (CS angle), the Regeneron STS and ISEF (computer science category). Mentor letters and shipped-project evidence often play a meaningful role in these applications.

Yes. Refer another American family and both of you get a free month once they complete two paid months. No code, no rules — just mention who referred you on your trial call. Siblings sharing a 1:1 slot also get a small discount when their levels are close.

Yes — gift-month options are popular with US grandparents, aunts and uncles. You pay up front for 1, 3 or 6 months; the recipient gets a personalised email; we set up the trial call whenever they're ready. Just ask on the contact form.

Each of those is a legitimate option — broader market, larger classes, more variety. We're narrower and deeper: 1:1 year-round mentorship aimed at students who want serious depth (AP CS 5, USACO promotion, Ivy / MIT / Stanford / CMU CS, or a real career switch). Many of our American families have tried one of those first and joined us when they wanted more.

Yes — for adult students who have been with us at least three months and would like one, mentors are happy to write a public LinkedIn endorsement describing the technical work observed. Several of our adult learners have landed roles partly on the back of that endorsement.

Honestly, four months. The first month is setup and foundations; months two and three are real learning; month four is when a student has shipped a real project they can point at. We won't oversell shorter — if you can only commit a month, do it, but understand most learning compounds beyond that point.