7 hours. A business idea, a working product, a pitch on stage — all powered by AI. This is the most intense, creative, fun day of the summer.
Every other camp treats AI as a topic. Here, AI is your co-founder. From minute one, you're using it to validate ideas, interview customers, write code, and stress-test your pitch.
By end of day, you've shipped something real — a landing page, a pitch deck, a prototype — and you know how tech founders actually work.
Built on the Business Model Canvas, Steve Blank's Startup Owner Manual, LEGO Serious Play, and vibe coding — the same frameworks used at Stanford d.school and Y Combinator.
Based on your idea, your primary customer is a 12-year-old who plays too many video games and has no way to turn that passion into a real skill. Here's the hard question: would their parents pay for your solution? Let's find out...
Every hour is designed. Every module builds on the last.
Energy in, context set, teams formed. Every participant walks in as a "person" and walks out as a founder. We use real kid startup stories — Moziah Bridges, Ryan's World — to prove this isn't fantasy. Then we introduce the Jobs-to-be-Done lens: every product exists because someone needed to get a job done.
The most important founder skill: finding a real person with a real problem. Teams run a 10-minute "who's in pain?" sprint, then simulate customer discovery interviews. The output is a single sentence that will anchor everything else: "We're helping [who] who struggles with [what]."
Hands and minds together. Teams prototype their solution in LEGO — not what it looks like, but what it does. One rule: you can only talk about what you built. This single constraint forces clarity that 10 minutes of whiteboarding never achieves. Then you walk the room and explain your model.
Eating and thinking. The Lemonade Stand worksheet asks the question every founder must face: if you charge $5, $10, or $50 — how many customers do you need to make $1,000/month? Real numbers, real constraints. This is where ideas get honest and the Business Model Canvas gets its revenue and cost sections filled in.
The most exciting 90 minutes of the day. Using AI tools like Claude and Bolt, teams build a real digital product — a landing page, a pricing page, or a product prototype — in plain English. Zero prior coding knowledge required. Rule: you must describe what you want before you prompt. If you can't describe it, you don't understand it yet.
Build and rehearse a 3-minute pitch using the four-part founder frame: the problem, the solution, why us, the ask. Every team builds four slides, does a dry run with another team, and uses AI to find the weakest part of their argument before the real pitch. Then they rehearse the opening line until it's sharp.
Parents arrive at 3:00. Each team pitches 3 minutes to a live audience — showing their Canvas, their AI-built product, and their vision. Then open Q&A from the room. This is the moment that makes the day feel real: a genuine audience, a genuine pitch, genuine stakes. The energy in this room is the best marketing LittleQuants has.
Not a participation trophy. Real artifacts. Real skills. Real pride.
Their completed Business Model Canvas — a real founder document.
A working product page or prototype built with AI. Shareable. Real.
LittleQuants certified. Because they earned it.
A 4-slide PDF they can show anyone — including future investors.
10 prompts to keep building all summer long with their AI co-founder.
Nine sessions across summer. Each one identical — pick the date that works for your family.
9 sessions from June to August. Cohorts are limited to 12 students each. Enter your email and we'll send you the registration link.
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