For schools, camps, and after-school programs
A plug-in AI program your teachers don’t have to invent.
You don’t need to hire an AI specialist. You don’t need to gamble on a textbook that’ll be stale in a year. You drop 1stgraid into your program calendar, your teachers become coaches, and every term ends with artifacts your parents can hold.
Plug-in curriculum
Six-week sprints + month-long seasonal modules. Drop them into after-school, summer camp, gifted-and-talented, or as an elective. No textbook orders. No teacher retraining marathon.
AI literacy that doesn't scare parents
Every module teaches kids how to use AI honestly: ask better, check the answer, keep their own voice. Parents see the artifact and the process. No black box.
Made for the K--8 attention budget
Daily lessons are 25--40 minutes with a tangible artifact every single day. Designed for 8--12 year-olds first, scales down to 6--7 and up to 13--14 with light adaptation.
Mentors do the heavy lift
Pixel, Bolt, and Sage handle the day-to-day instruction inside the platform. Teachers become coaches: they steer, they encourage, they don't have to be the AI expert in the room.
One artifact per kid per term
Every term ends with something every parent can hold, play, or read. That's the open-house demo. That's the enrollment story. That's the parent group-chat moment.
How it fits inside what you already run
Drop it where it works. Skip what doesn’t fit your school.
After-school
Two afternoons a week, six weeks per track. Teachers coach a small cohort. Mentor handles the lesson.
Summer camp
Flagship six-week capstone format. Tracks run in parallel; kids choose at intake. Showcase day at the end.
Elective course
Drop one full track per quarter. Pair with the seasonal module that lines up with the calendar.
Gifted-and-talented
Self-pace it. The mentor adapts to the kid; the capstone scales up in ambition.
What teachers receive
Lesson plans you don’t have to write.
- A daily lesson script for every track, every season, with the artifact each session produces.
- A coach guide for every lesson: what to watch for, what to nudge, what counts as success.
- A parent-facing summary at the end of each week so the family sees what happened.
- A term-end report from Principal Quill — personalized to each kid, mailed to parents.
- A school dashboard: enrollments, completion, artifacts, and the showcase queue.
The three flagship tracks
Track A
Creator — Build a playable browser game.
Mentored by Pixel
Track B
Builder — Build a simple working web tool.
Mentored by Bolt
Track C
Thinker — Write and illustrate a children's book.
Mentored by Sage
A year of modules, not a one-time summer
Eight seasonal modules that keep families enrolled all year.
Summer Term
The Capstone Summer
June -- August
Back-to-School
Hello, AI Homework
Late August -- September
Halloween
Monster Mash Workshop
October
Thanksgiving
The Gratitude Book
November
Holiday Term
Gifts You Built
December
New Year
Goal Setter Lab
January
Valentine's
Kindness Cards Studio
February
Spring Term
The Showcase Build
March -- May
Want to pilot 1stgraid at your school?
We’re selecting a small number of pilot partners for the inaugural summer term and the first seasonal year that follows. If you run a school or a program for kids 8 to 12, we’d love to talk.