Candide AI academy · Doha
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Create your own universe

Term 01 · ages 8–12 · Doha. Over eight weekly sessions, your child invents a creature, writes its adventure and turns it into a narrated trailer, ending with a showcase for parents.

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Week by week

Eight weeks, one growing world. Nothing is thrown away between projects. The creature from week one is the hero of the story in week four and the star of the trailer in week seven.

Week
Session
What happens

Project 01 · Invent a creature

Describing precisely · working within constraints · iterating
01
From head to page
Sketch the creature on paper, then describe it precisely enough that the AI draws what you pictured, not what it guessed.
02
Powers, habitat, identity
Set the rules of the creature’s world, compare versions side by side and choose the one that’s truly yours.

Project 02 · Write its adventure

Story structure · cause and effect · editing
03
The shape of a story
A beginning, a problem, a turning point and an ending, mapped out before anything is generated.
04
Draft and illustrate
Write the scenes and illustrate them, keeping the creature recognisable from page to page.
05
Edit like an author
Read it aloud, cut what drags and fix what the AI got wrong.

Project 03 · Bring the world to life

Storyboarding · sequencing · teamwork · presenting
06
Storyboard the trailer
Pick the moments that matter, put them in order and write the narration, helping each other along the way.
07
Narrate and assemble
Record the voice-over, sequence the scenes and rehearse the presentation.
08
The showcase
Parents are invited. Each child presents their creature, story and trailer, and explains what was their own idea, what the AI added, what went wrong and what they changed.

Inside a session

What 90 minutes looks like. Every session follows the same rhythm, so children know what to expect and can spend their energy on the work.

The six steps

Minutes · share of the session
Discover10 min11%
Meet today’s challenge and pick apart a few examples together.
Plan15 min17%
Shape the idea by drawing, writing or talking it through. No AI yet.
Watch10 min11%
A short live demonstration from the educator.
Build35 min39%
Make, experiment and revise, with an educator on hand.
Share15 min17%
Show the work to the group and explain the choices behind it.
Save5 min6%
Save progress to the portfolio and hear next week’s challenge.

Minutes per step

Hands-on with AI 35 min

The rest of the session is spent discussing examples, planning on paper, watching a demonstration and presenting to the group.

What your child practises

Four habits that outlast any tool. The tools will keep changing. What we teach is the thinking around them, and children practise it in every session.

Express

Turn the picture in their head into words precise enough for someone else, or something else, to act on.

Experiment

Try it, change one thing, try again. Constraints turn it into a game.

Evaluate

Look hard at a result and decide whether it’s really what they meant.

Improve

Edit, cut and rework until the piece is theirs, then stand up and present it.

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