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AI Mastermind · Grades 5–12 · Live online

One-on-One AI Mentorship by CS Graduates from IIT, BITS & IIIT

AI Mastermind is our year-round AI programme for Grades 5–12. Your child is matched to their mentor before the course begins and keeps that same person for all 25 live hours - finishing with a technical paper they write, and defend, themselves.

IIT · BITS · IIIT25 live hoursUS time zone
No charge

Start with a free class.

Your child's first class is a full hour, one-on-one with a mentor, at no cost - a real lesson, not a sales call. You’ll both know after it whether this is right.

  • A full 1-hour class, free, no card, no obligation to enrol
  • Scheduled in your time zone
  • Your details are never shared or sold

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We’ll email you within one business day with times for your child’s free trial class and the name of the mentor we’d match them to.

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Every AI Mastermind mentor holds a CS degree from IIT, BITS or IIIT

Background-checkedTeaching full-time

The roster

What Your Child Learns Depends on Who They Learn From

Whoever your child is matched with will have come through the same filter - a computer science degree from an IIT, BITS or IIIT, a record worth reading, and a teaching trial before they are ever put in front of a student.

Every mentor background-checkedLive teaching evaluation before hireSame mentor all 25 sessionsFree reassignment on request

Swarnava

Foundations & CS Specialist

Experience14 years teaching Computer Science - IB, IGCSE, A-Level and AP curricula
TeachesThe AI Literacy Foundation · mathematical foundations for ML - probability, statistics, logical reasoning
EducationB.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, Netaji Subhash Engineering College

In their words"You can’t build AI you don’t understand. My job is to make the maths underneath it feel obvious - not intimidating."

Koutheesh

Programming & Applied AI Specialist

Experience10+ years in EdTech - teaches Computer Science for IB, MYP, IGCSE, A-Level and AP
TeachesPython for AI · Machine Learning Lab · introductory ML. Also C, C++, Java, data structures, SQL, AWS
EducationM.E. Electronics, Anna University

In their words"Students learn AI fastest when they’re building something real with it. We start writing code on day one."

Prasanth M

Programming & AI Engineering Specialist

Experience7+ years teaching, plus industry work as a software developer - Golang, REST APIs, NoSQL databases
TeachesPython for AI · algorithms, data processing & ML models. Has taken high-schoolers to top scores in C++, Java, Python and SQL
EducationM.S. Computer Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - graduated second rank, silver medal

In their words"Real industry experience changes how you teach. I show students how AI is actually built, not just how it’s described."

We match your child to a mentor on the call, before you pay - you’ll get their name, institution and record first. Kept for all 25 hours. If the fit is wrong, tell us and we reassign: no explanation needed, no charge.Book a free trial class →

Comparing programmes

What Sets Learn AI Apart

Every AI programme for teenagers teaches roughly the same concepts, because there is only one set of concepts. The variable you are actually choosing between is who delivers them - so it’s the only thing worth comparing carefully.

What you get with AI Mastermind

All of it, in writing, before you pay.

  • A CS graduate of IIT, BITS or IIIT, named and shown to you before you pay anything.
  • The same mentor for all 25 hours, so nobody has to be re-explained your child in week four.
  • Teaching as their full-time job — sessions don’t get moved because a work deadline slipped.
  • The same concept taught three ways, by tier, so a Grade 6 and a Grade 11 aren’t in the same lesson.
  • A reassignment on request, at no cost, if the personality fit is wrong.

What to check for elsewhere

Five questions worth asking any other programme.

  • Ask who specifically will teach your child. If they can’t name them before you pay, it’s a pool.
  • Ask whether that person teaches full-time or fits you in around an engineering job.
  • Ask how many children are in the session. “Small group” is usually eight to thirty.
  • Ask what happens in hour 25. If the answer is a certificate, nothing was assessed.
  • Ask what the same course costs for a Grade 6 and a Grade 11. One price means one lesson.

Inside AI Mastermind

A Structured Journey From Curiosity to Confidence

AI Mastermind is one course, not a subscription: 25 live 1-on-1 sessions across eight units, ending in a research paper your child writes and defends. Every session is below, in order - and the capstone is what tells you which specialisation to choose next.

Session 1Capstone · 22–252521 hrs taught4 hrs capstone
UnitWhat your child coversSessionsHours
01

Foundations of AI

What AI really is, how it works, and where it shows up.

1–22 hrs
02

How Machines Learn

How machines learn from data to make predictions.

3–64 hrs
03

Generative AI

How AI creates text, images, voice and video.

7–104 hrs
04

Prompting and Interaction

Getting clearer, better results from any AI tool.

11–133 hrs
05

AI Domains

Vision, language, robotics, and beyond.

14–174 hrs
06

AI in the Real World

How real industries put AI to work today.

18–192 hrs
07

Responsible AI

Bias, safety, ethics and using AI fairly.

20–212 hrs
08

Capstone Project

Research paper

Research, build and present an original AI project.

22–254 hrs

A quiz follows every topic. You find out whether each one landed before the next one starts - not in week twelve, when it’s too late to do anything about it.

See it before you decide.

The first class is a full free hour, one-on-one with a mentor - a real lesson, not a sales call.

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The AI Mastermind path

Start With the Fundamentals. Then Follow Their Passion.

AI Mastermind is a single 25-session course - the same eight units and the same capstone for every student. What changes is the altitude: a Grade 5 Explorer and a Grade 12 Engineer reach the same ideas by very different routes, so neither is bored and neither is lost.

Level 1

Grades 5–6

The Explorers

Intuition & metaphor

No prior coding, and none required to finish.
Level 2

Grades 7–8

The Builders

Logic & application

Code appears, and is explained from zero.
Level 3

Grades 9–12

The Engineers

Rigour & first principles

Capstones are written to be shown to admissions.

After the Foundation

The capstone shows you where they go next.

Specialised tracks build on AI Mastermind for students who want to go further - the capstone, and the mentor who saw it, tell you which one fits before you commit to anything.

AI Architects · the technical trackAI Strategists · the applied track
Coming soon

A legacy of educational success

Sixteen Years of Teaching. Now Focused on AI.

For 16 years, AP Guru has delivered elite, one-on-one global education across elite curricula, including the SAT, ACT, AP, IB, and IGCSE. AI Mastermind is built upon this exact foundation—utilizing our proven scheduling systems, transparent parent reporting, and the same dedicated, 24/7 support team trusted by thousands of families worldwide.

16
Years teaching
10,000+
Students taught
1:1
Every single hour
25
Live hours per course

Meet the mentor first.

One named mentor, matched before the course begins. Start with a free trial class and decide from there.

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Fees

One Mentor. One Course. One Simple Fee.

There’s no surcharge for a more experienced mentor, because there’s no less-experienced one to discount. Every child on AI Mastermind is drawn from the same roster - the programme only works if that stays true.

One flat fee for the whole course - no subscription, no per-session billing. If your child later moves on to a specialised track, you decide then, with a graded exam and a defended paper already in front of you.

Book your free trial class
$1,000the whole course
25 live sessions
  • Live 1-on-1 instruction25 hrs
  • Named mentor, whole courseIncluded
  • Cost per live 1-on-1 hour$40
  • Independent lab & homework~15 hrs
  • Progress tests & final exam3 + 1
  • Capstone paper & defenceIncluded
  • Mentor reassignment on requestNo charge
What it doesn’t include
  • Any obligation to continue. The course stands on its own; the specialised tracks are optional.
  • Paid compute or tooling. Everything in the course runs on free tiers.
  • A completion certificate. The paper and the recorded defence are the record.

Before you book

What parents ask us about the mentors.

Will my child get the same mentor every session?
Yes. One named mentor, matched before the module begins and kept for all 25 hours. You’ll know their name, institution, degree and year before session one. If the fit is wrong, email us and we reassign - you don’t have to justify it, and there’s no charge.
Does my child need to know how to code?
No. AI Mastermind is the Foundation, and it assumes nothing - most children arrive never having written a line of code, and the course is built for exactly that. Coding is introduced gently and explained from zero, at the depth that suits your child’s grade.
My child already uses ChatGPT constantly. Is this redundant?
That’s usually the strongest reason to start. Fluent use and understanding are different things, and the gap doesn’t show up until someone asks a question the tool can’t answer for them - which is what the per-topic quizzes surface early. If the course turns out to be too easy for your child, the mentor will tell you and we’ll adjust the tier.
What time do sessions run from the US?
Your time zone, not ours. Most US families run weekday evenings or weekend mornings. You choose the slot before the course starts and it holds for all 25 sessions - each mentor’s available US windows are listed on their record above.
Grade 5 feels early. Is it?
It’s the same outcome taught differently. A Tier 1 Explorer learns what a neural network does through metaphor and play; a Tier 3 Engineer derives it. What doesn’t change is that a graduate engineer is the one sitting with them. If your child isn’t ready, we’ll say so on the call - we’d rather lose the course than take it.
What does my child actually have at the end?
A built project, an original technical paper in their own words, a graded exam, and a recording of them defending the paper live. Those are things an admissions officer or a teacher can evaluate. A completion certificate isn’t, which is why we don’t issue one.
Can I watch a session?
Any of them, without asking first. Sessions can be recorded on request, and parents are explicitly invited to the Hour 25 capstone defence.

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