// MEET OUR BUILDERS

Real kids. Real projects. Real results.

These are actual kids who've been through Builders Club. Different starting points, different ages — but every one of them built something real and shipped it.

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Amelia

Amelia

age 11Foundations

Amelia had never written a line of code. Now her friends won't stop using the chatbot she built.

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Used a computer for homework and YouTube. Had never seen a line of code. Her mum signed her up because she wanted something better than the iPad for screen time.

First session, she wrote her first HTML tag and watched it appear in a browser. She literally said 'wait, that's how websites work?' By week six, her portfolio site was live at her own URL and she was showing her teachers.

She learned Python through a game, built a text adventure, then created an AI chatbot — a pirate character called Captain Codebeard who gives life advice. She deployed it as a real web app. Her friends use it constantly. Her mum says she now explains how websites work at the dinner table.

Track record
5Projects shipped
1,200+Lines of code written
Her whole classMass of friends now using her chatbot
~/builders-club/amelia
$deploy captain-codebeard --live
→ Deployed to https://amelia.buildersclub.org.uk
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Darren

Darren

age 13Intermediate

Darren knew a bit of Scratch. Now he runs his own cloud server.

~/builders-club/darren
$ssh darren@ec2-34-245-12-88.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04 — TaskPilot server online.

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Had done Scratch at school and watched some Python tutorials on YouTube. Could write a for loop but didn't really know what to do with it. His dad thought coding was 'just gaming'.

The Intermediate tier put him in a real code editor on day one. No more drag-and-drop. By module three, he was SSH'd into a real Linux server and hasn't looked back. His dad stopped calling it gaming after Darren showed him the server running in Ireland.

He built a full-stack task manager with a Python backend, a database, and an AI chatbot that prioritises your to-do list. All running on his own EC2 instance. His teacher asked him to help other students with their coding projects.

Track record
6Projects shipped
5,800+Lines of code written
"How do you know this?"His teacher's reaction
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Sara

Sara

age 15Advanced

Sara could code. She just couldn't build anything real. Now she deploys to AWS.

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Already knew Python and basic web dev from self-teaching. Had built a few Flask apps but never deployed anything — everything lived on localhost. Wanted to know how real engineers work.

Sara could code but couldn't engineer. She'd built Flask apps that worked on her laptop and nowhere else. The Advanced tier rebuilt her from the ground up — DNS, TLS, real AWS infrastructure, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines. The stuff that gets a project off localhost and onto the internet.

Her capstone: a fine-tuned language model deployed as a production API on AWS. It generates meal plans from what's in your fridge. She demoed it in a 30-minute technical presentation. Two parents in the audience asked if she could intern at their companies.

Track record
14AWS services used
12,000+Lines of code written
2Internship offers from her demo
~/builders-club/sara
$terraform apply -auto-approve
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