Four stages, each meeting students exactly where they are. Every one is workshop-based, project-first, and completely free. Names and details are evolving as we grow. The ladder is the promise.
Nothing grows without soil. Roots puts working technology into places that have none: we rescue retired computers, rebuild them, and stand up pop-up labs inside partner sites, giving hardware a second life instead of a landfill, and giving kids a first machine.
Programming introduced the way it should be: as play. With visual, block-based coding, students animate stories and build simple games, absorbing loops, logic, and sequences without ever feeling like they're in a lecture.
The training wheels come off. Students graduate to real code, building websites, games, and apps around problems they actually care about. This is where "I did the tutorial" becomes "I made this."
The top of the ladder, and the view of what's next. Students wire sensors, program motors, and build machines that move. Then they meet AI hands-on: training it, questioning it, and using it as a tool for their own ideas.