1st–8th Grade · After-School · Summer

AI Coding

Kids create with AI: storybooks, games, apps, and 3D models. Not just learning about AI.

What's Offered

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Every AI class ends with a tangible deliverable parents can see and students can keep.

AI Storybook Studio

1st–5th

Students explore storytelling through reading, interpretation, and digital creation, then build illustrated storybooks using AI tools.

Take home: Completed digital storybook

AI Game Systems Studio

1st–6th

Design and build interactive video games. Students learn coding logic and cause-and-effect by creating games others can play.

Take home: Playable, shareable game

AI App Engineering & Product Design

2nd–8th

Build simple working apps while learning how real digital products are planned, designed, and improved.

Take home: Working app + digital portfolio

AI-Driven 3D Modeling & Rapid Prototyping

2nd–8th

Design objects using AI-assisted 3D modeling tools and produce physical prints. Ideas become real objects.

Take home: Custom 3D-printed objects

AI Coding with Minecraft Education

1st–6th

Using Minecraft Education, students use block-based coding and intro Python/JavaScript to create rules, triggers, and automated systems.

Take home: Coded Minecraft worlds

Skills Developed

Creative decision-makingAI-assisted designCoding logicProduct thinkingUX fundamentalsDigital fabricationStorytelling

Summer 2026 · MBJCC

AI is the headline this summer.

5 of 9 summer weeks are AI-focused: Storybook Studio, Game Systems, App Engineering, 3D Modeling, and Minecraft AI Coding. The most AI-forward summer HackShack has ever run.

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