Our Story

It started with a mother asking one hard question

AI & Robotics Academy began the way a lot of good things do — a parent looking at her own kids and asking a hard question. That parent was me.

I started the academy two and a half years ago because I could see where the world was heading. AI and robotics weren't going to be a career path for a handful of specialists; they were going to be the tools everyone uses, the way word processors, calculators and the internet became for earlier generations. I wanted my own children to meet those tools early and on their own terms — whether they grew up to be artists or athletes, doctors or engineers, teachers or public servants.

What began with a few families has grown into two campuses, live online classes, and partnerships with schools and community centers across Washington and Oregon. Every class we run still starts from the question I asked about my own kids: what will they need to be fluent in, and how do they learn it best?

— Anshu

Our Philosophy

Robotics is the screwdriver

Tools are wonderful, and kids love them. But tools aren't the point — what a child builds with them is.

The skills that matter for a lifetime are the human ones: empathy, collaboration, speaking up in a group, working on a team, staying with a hard problem long enough to solve it, and daring to try something nobody asked for. Those can't be lectured into a child. They're forged by doing difficult things.

So that's what we design: a ladder of increasing complexity, calibrated to each age, where the challenge is always just past comfortable. The robot is the excuse. The growth is the goal.

Empathy

Reading the room, helping a teammate who's stuck.

Public speaking

Explaining your build to a room full of parents.

Collaboration

Sharing a kit, a plan, and the credit.

Problem solving

Staying with a hard thing until it works.

Innovation

Trying the idea nobody asked for.

Team building

Leading, following, and knowing which is needed.

Students of different ages working together in the lab

Montessori-inspired

Why we mix ages on purpose

Walk into one of our labs and you'll see an eleven-year-old helping a six-year-old figure out why their motor is spinning backwards. That isn't an accident or a scheduling compromise — it's deliberate, and it's borrowed from Montessori.

The older child gets something no worksheet can give: the experience of being a mentor, a guide, a buddy. Explaining an idea out loud is the fastest way to discover whether you actually understand it — teaching sharpens the teacher.

The younger child, meanwhile, learns faster from another kid than from any adult. A peer who figured it out five minutes ago explains it in exactly the language they need.

Instructors are right there the whole time, guiding and teaching. The mixing is a feature we designed in, not a gap we're papering over.

Our Team

The grown-ups who make it click

Engineers, educators and competition mentors — chosen as much for patience as for credentials.

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Anshu Yadav

Founder & Robotics Instructor

I founded AI & Robotics Academy because I wanted my own children to grow up fluent in the tools that are reshaping the world. With a Master's in Biotechnology, a Bachelor's in Education and a background in Data Science, I bring scientific depth, real classroom craft and technical skill together. For over five years I've been igniting curiosity in students from elementary school through college — and the moment a child's face changes when their robot finally works never gets old.

Programs

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Ages 6–12

STEAM Club

Robotics, coding and game design under one roof — a small weekly class, then the lab is theirs as often as they want to come.

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Ages 5–12

After-School Enrichment

Pickup, Focus Time, a daily STEAM hour, then the open lab — the afternoon kids ask for.

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Ages 3–6

Little Innovators

A high-end preschool morning in a real robotics lab — the day's letter, real tools, tiny hands.

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