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TechCadets

Two tracks, split by school year

A student joins the track their grade puts them in. Junior Tech Cadets is visual and project-first; Senior Tech Cadets is typed, tooled and portfolio-first. Both run live, twice a week, in small groups.

5–8

Junior Tech Cadets

Grades 5–8, ages 10–14

Visual first, project first. Scratch, games, web basics and a term on using AI without being fooled by it.

Sessions a week
2
Session length
75min
Class size
12max
In the room
2 adults

What it covers

  • Scratch and block-based game building
  • AI tools: how to use them honestly, and how to catch them being wrong
  • How the web is put together — HTML and CSS
  • Beginner Python: variables, loops, functions, simple graphics
  • Reading a problem, breaking it down, and testing a fix

Courses in this track

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9–12

Senior Tech Cadets

Grades 9–12, ages 14–18

Text-based and portfolio first. Python, React, mobile and AI development, with work that stands up to being looked at.

Sessions a week
2
Session length
90min
Class size
15max
In the room
1 instructor

What it covers

  • Python from fundamentals through files, data structures and APIs
  • AI development: building real software against a model API, with embeddings, retrieval and evaluation
  • Web development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React
  • Mobile apps with React Native, running on the student's own phone
  • Computer science fundamentals aligned to Matric CS and O/A-Level Computer Science
  • Git, GitHub and deploying work to a public URL

Courses in this track

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Which track, and which course first

Grade decides the track. A grade 8 student stays in Junior Tech Cadets even if they are ahead, because the group and the pacing are built around that age; an ahead-of-year student is given harder versions of the same projects rather than moved up a band.

Within a track, the starting course depends on what a student has already done. For grades 5 to 7 with no experience, Scratch game development. For grades 7 and 8 who have already used Scratch, web development foundations or junior Python. For grade 9 and above with no experience, senior Python.

If you are not sure, book the trial class and we will tell you honestly — including when we think a student would be bored in the course you asked about.

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The progression

  1. 01The first class

    Something runs

  2. 02Weeks 1 to 8

    A finished project

  3. 03End of the first term

    It has an address

  4. 04Term two

    A direction

  5. 05Across a year

    A portfolio