// EXAMPLE PATHWAYS

What a year looks like at each level.

One example pathway per level, showing what a child builds over the six modules.

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Amelia

Amelia

age 11Foundations

An example Foundations year: from a first HTML tag to a chatbot with a personality, all live on the internet.

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A 10 or 11 year old who has used a computer for homework and YouTube and has never seen a line of code.

In the first module she writes her first HTML tag and watches it appear in a browser. By the end of the module her personal site is live at her own address.

She learns Python through a game, builds a text adventure, then trains an AI model from her own examples and designs a chatbot character with its own personality, live on her club site for friends to talk to. Her final project combines two of those modules into one, and she demos it at the Parent Showcase.

The level in numbers
6Modules in the level
0Accounts in her own name
6 to 8Children per group
~/builders-club/amelia
$deploy captain-codebeard --live
→ Deployed to https://amelia.buildersclub.org.uk
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Darren

Darren

age 13Intermediate

An example Intermediate year: from block coding to a Linux server, hosted by us, that he logs into and runs.

~/builders-club/darren
$python3 app.py
→ TaskPilot running at darren.buildersclub.org.uk
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A 12 or 13 year old who has done block coding at school and watched some Python videos. Can write a loop but has never used a real code editor.

Intermediate puts him in a proper code editor from the first session. By module three he is logged into a Linux server that we host and writing a bash script on it. By module four he has built an AI assistant that remembers the conversation, and by module five his own Python web server is running on that Linux server with the assistant behind it.

His final project is a task manager web app with an AI feature that orders the to-do list, saving its data to a file. It runs on his Linux server, hosted by Builders Club, and he demos it at the Parent Showcase.

The level in numbers
6Modules in the level
1, GitHub at 13Accounts in his own name
1Linux servers of his own, hosted by us
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Sara

Sara

age 15Advanced

An example Advanced year: from code that only ran on a laptop to a system deployed and monitored on AWS.

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A 14 or 15 year old who taught herself Python and some web development. Has built small apps that only ever ran on her own laptop.

Advanced starts with how the internet really works underneath, then moves to AWS in a sandbox we own, then to shipping code the way engineering teams do. Each module ends with something of hers running on the internet.

Her final project is an AI tool that answers questions from her own notes, live at her club address and deployed through the club's systems, with a spending cap. She presents it in a 15-minute demo with questions at the Parent Showcase.

The level in numbers
6Modules in the level
15 minutesFinal demo
£0, we pay itHer AWS bill
~/builders-club/sara
$git push origin main
→ Deploy workflow passed. MealMind is live.
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Your child's first session is free.

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