Train. Build. Change the world with AI.
Hands-on AI training, contests, and camps for every student — K–12 through college. Strong performers get a real pipeline toward placement.
HackStart 2026 Grand Finale In
Host Campus
RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
With RVEI Incubation Foundation
Challenge Domains
We're building the on-ramp for the next generation.
AI Youth exists to close the gap between curiosity and creation. We give every student — regardless of background — the tools, mentorship, and a real stage to build with AI.
Weexistbecausethekidswhowillbuildtomorrow'sAIaresittinginclassroomstodaywithnoon-ramp.AIYouthgivesthemthatramp—free,hands-on,andbuiltbypeoplewhostillship.
More than a camp. A career on-ramp.
A Real Placement Pipeline
Strong performers in our training cohorts and contests get introduced to hiring partners and considered for roles at AIYouth itself. This is a pipeline, not a promise — outcomes depend on your work, not a quota.
Mentorship From People Doing the Job
Training cohorts are matched with mentors currently working in AI, at a ratio that keeps mentorship real instead of a marketing line. Office hours, code review, and direct feedback on what you ship.
Contests Worth Entering
HackStart and NOVA publish their judging rubrics and, where prize funding is confirmed, the actual numbers — not invented totals. Check each contest page for what's currently confirmed.
Included Free — No Upsells
AIYouth Certificate
A credential backed by a real shipped project — not a quiz score. More signal than a transcript because there is something to click on.
Real Facility Visits
Tour AI labs and Fortune 500 tech campuses. Sit in real design sessions with engineers shipping products you have used.
Prove It to Yourself
48 hours. A blank canvas. The discovery that you can build the thing you imagined.
Training for Every Level
Structured, project-based AI training from elementary school through graduate level. Every course ends with a real deployed project.
Elementary
Foundations of AI & robotics through hands-on play, creative projects, and storytelling with machine learning. No coding needed.
Middle School
Build your first AI models in Python, explore cybersecurity, and join team hackathon challenges with real stakes.
High School
Real-world AI projects, contest experience through HackStart and NOVA, and a real pipeline toward placement introductions.
College Level
Advanced specializations, the Startup Cup accelerator, research tracks, and faculty-mentored publishing opportunities where a mentor is actually assigned.
Startup Cup Demo Day is built to bring investors into the room with top teams. The AI Research Track pairs you with a faculty mentor and targets submission to a real student AI conference.
Trusted by AI Leaders
Industry professionals trust AIYouth to prepare the next generation of builders. Here's what they have to say.
AIYouth is exactly the kind of initiative the industry needs. The depth of curriculum — from agentic AI to quantum computing — is genuinely impressive for a K–12 through college program. I have mentored many students, and the ones coming through AIYouth arrive with a completely different level of readiness.
Chirag Desai
Senior Leader · Genentech
What strikes me most about AIYouth is how seriously they take real-world outcomes — internships, research publications, startup funding. This is not a certificate farm. These students are building things that matter, and the program's connection to industry ensures they are not building in a vacuum.
John O'Brien
Principal · Radiant Advisors · Boulder, CO
Five stages. One shipped product.
Apply
Tell us what you want to build and why it matters. We read every application.
Get matched
Join a pod of 6 builders and a mentor who has shipped in your space.
Build in public
Eight weeks of weekly sprints, code reviews, and honest feedback.
Ship it
Launch to real users. Not a slide deck — a link people can click.
Demo Day
Present to founders and investors who are actually looking for what you built.
What You'll Build
Generative AI
Build a tool using GenAI to solve a real community problem.
Easiest Entry PointQuantum AI
Design a quantum-enhanced optimization solution using IBM Qiskit.
AdvancedRobotics
Program a robot to assist in a real-world scenario. Hardware provided.
Hardware ProvidedCybersecurity AI
Create an AI-powered security tool for schools, hospitals, or NGOs.
Cloud Credits IncludedAgentic AI
Build autonomous AI agents with LangChain that act in the real world.
Vision AI
Train computer vision models for healthcare, agriculture, and robotics.
People who've already done what you're about to try.
Rani A
Co-Founder & CEO · Ex-Microsoft
“AI is the great equalizer — if we give everyone access to it.”
- Former Senior Leader at Microsoft
- Decades building enterprise AI products at scale
- Passionate about closing the AI education gap for underserved communities
- Advocate for K–12 STEM access in Title I school districts
CEO · aiyouth.ai
Jay Bobba
Co-Founder & CTO · Ex-Microsoft · IIT Delhi
“The best AI engineers I know did not come from elite schools. They came from relentless curiosity.”
- B.Tech, IIT Delhi (Indian Institute of Technology)
- Former Senior Engineer & Leader at Microsoft
- Currently Director of AI at one of the world’s largest strategic consulting firms
- Built enterprise AI systems for Fortune 500 clients globally
CTO · aiyouth.ai
Real skills. Real projects.
Every course ends with a deployed AI project you can put in a portfolio. Pick self-paced basics or live, mentor-led advanced tracks.
K–5AI Explorers
Foundations of Machine Learning
Discover how computers learn through interactive games, storytelling with AI, and building simple classifiers. No coding needed — just curiosity.
₹3,999
8 wk · 16 sessions
6–8AI Builders
Python & Neural Networks
Code your first neural network, train image classifiers, and deploy a chatbot using real tools used by professionals.
₹5,999
12 wk · 24 sessions
6–8CyberAI Lab
AI-Powered Security
Understand cybersecurity through AI — detect phishing, analyze vulnerabilities, and build tools to defend digital systems.
₹5,999
10 wk · 20 sessions
9–12Quantum AI
Next-Gen Computing
Explore quantum circuits, quantum ML, and IBM Qiskit to solve optimization problems impossible for classical computers.
₹9,999
14 wk · 28 sessions
9–12Agentic AI
LLMs & Autonomous Agents
Build autonomous AI agents with LangChain, fine-tune LLMs on custom data, and deploy multi-agent systems that act in the real world.
₹9,999
12 wk · 24 sessions
9–12Computer Vision
CV & Deep Learning
Train CNNs, build object detectors, and deploy vision models in healthcare, agriculture, and robotics contexts using PyTorch.
₹9,999
10 wk · 20 sessions
CollegeAI Research Track
Publish Your First Paper
Work with faculty mentors, run original experiments, and submit to student AI conferences. Access to full research library and peer group.
₹16,999
16 wk · 32 sessions
CollegeAI for Social Good
Climate, Health, Education
Apply AI to global challenges with access to NGO datasets, case studies, and policy templates.
₹16,999
10 wk · 20 sessions
Need a team license? Schools & clubs get bulk access free.
Everything you need to know.
It depends on the program. HackStart, NOVA, and our contests are free or low-cost to enter (see each contest's own page for exact terms). Our structured 2-month mentor-led training, where you're matched with an industry mentor and work on real company projects toward placement, is a paid program; card, UPI, and cardless EMI are accepted. AIYouth is a for-profit company, not a registered nonprofit.
Your First AI App Is 5 Minutes Away
No credit card. No experience required. Just curiosity and a laptop. We'll handle the rest.
Free for every student
K–12 and college students join at no cost. No paywalls, no upsells — ever.
Mentor-led, not self-taught
Learn directly from AI leaders at Amazon, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft.
You ship something real
Every track ends with a deployed project, a certificate, and a portfolio piece.
Free for K–12 & College Students · Limited Summer Cohorts
How Enrollment Works
Three steps. Five minutes. Zero friction.
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Sign up
Two minutes. No credit card, no experience required.
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Pick your track
Choose a level and track that fits your age and curiosity.
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Start building
Join live sessions or go self-paced — and ship your first AI app.