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Nodo — an artificial intelligence school in Quito You learn AI by doing.

For kids from age 8, teens and working professionals. Small cohorts, mentors who work in the industry and a real project you present at Demo Day. On our Quito campus or online.

  • From age 8
  • 12 per cohort, max.
  • Quito campus + online
Young students work together around their laptops in a bright Nodo classroom overlooking Quito and its mountains Room 3 · Tuesday 16:00

01Curiosity

It all starts with a question: how does my phone know that face is mine? At Nodo we turn that curiosity into foundations, foundations into projects, and projects into something you present to a packed auditorium.

A girl and a boy wire up the cables and sensors of a small robot in Nodo’s Robotics class
A student writes code on a laptop with an open notebook beside it

Nobody memorizes definitions here. You build a robot, train a model, break it, work out why and try again.

With twelve people per group at most, nobody hides in the back row and nobody gets left behind.

02Foundations

A map, not a syllabus.

Each program is a branch. They all grow from the same curiosity and all lead to the same place: your project, in front of an audience. Pick the one that fits your age and your pace.

Hover over or tap a branch to open it

Your curiosityYou start here

Sensors, motors and a first idea of how a machine “learns”. They start out coding with blocks and finish by writing their first lines of Python.

Schedule
Saturdays, 9:00–11:00
Group
10 kids max.
Where
Quito campus
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  • A robot that sorts recycling
  • A line-following car

Python, data and neural networks, explained without the hype. They train their own models and learn something just as important: when not to trust them.

Schedule
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:00–18:00
Group
12 max.
Where
Quito campus or online
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  • A rust detector for coffee leaves
  • Their first vision model

A real problem from a Quito business. Teams of three, an industry mentor and a delivery every Friday, just like a real job.

Schedule
Monday to Friday, 15:00–19:00
Teams
3 people + mentor
Where
Quito campus
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  • A chatbot for a bakery
  • An app for a real client

For people with a day job. Automate reports, analyze data and use language models with good judgment. No coding required in the first month.

Schedule
Mondays and Wednesdays, 19:00–21:00
Group
12 adults max.
Where
Quito campus or online
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  • Reports that write themselves
  • An assistant for your team
Demo DayPresent your project

03Projects

Demo Day: the day your idea takes the stage.

Every quarter, our students present what they built to families, mentors and Quito companies. Nine minutes, a project that works and an audience that asks real questions.

34projects last quarter
260guests
9′per demo
A teenage girl smiles as she presents her artificial intelligence project on the Demo Day stage while the audience applauds
Demo Day, August · Nodo AuditoriumProject: “My neighborhood in data”

Project 01

Hoja Sana

Valentina, 16 · AI for teens

An app that spots rust on coffee leaves with a phone camera, even offline. She tested it with her grandfather on a farm in Nanegal.

  • Computer vision
  • Python
  • On-device model
Live demo · Hoja Sana

Project 02

Pan de Casa

Mateo, 17, and Sofía, 18 · Project bootcamp

An assistant that takes orders over chat for a neighborhood bakery in La Floresta. It knows what’s in the oven, holds orders and puts together the owner’s list for the day.

  • Language models
  • Inventory integration
  • Real client
Live demo · Pan de Casa

Project 03

Clasi

Emilia, Joaquín and Tomás, 11–12 · Robotics for kids

A robotic arm with a camera that sorts plastic, paper and glass. They built it from recycled parts, and today it sorts the trash from recess at their school.

  • Robotics
  • Image classification
  • Handmade
Live demo · Clasi

04Demo Day

Behind every demo is someone who dared.

Mentors who build AI Monday to Friday, and students aged 8 to 60. The network grows because every person connects with another.

Andrea, a Nodo mentor, explains a hand-drawn neural network on the whiteboard to her group
Mentor · 8 years in data science

My job isn’t to make them memorize formulas. It’s to get them to ask why the model got it wrong, and not stop until they understand.

AndreaMentor, AI for teens
Patricia, an adult student, smiles as she takes notes at her laptop during a Nodo evening class
Monday class, 19:00

I went back to school at 44, at night, after work. By week six I’d automated the reports that used to eat up my Fridays.

PatriciaApplied AI for professionals
12
people per cohort, at most. Everyone presents, everyone gets feedback.
1:6
one industry mentor for every six students, with code review every week.
4
Demo Days a year, open to families, schools and Quito companies.
2
ways to study: on the Quito campus or live online, with the same mentor.

Illustrative testimonials: Nodo is a concept school and the people quoted are not real.

Your turnThe network is waiting

Try a class for free.

Ninety minutes, no strings attached. You build something small, meet your mentor and decide in your own time. Families are welcome to stay and watch.

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Campus

Av. Naciones Unidas E4-56
Edificio Ágora, 3rd floor
Quito, Ecuador

Hours

Mon–Fri 15:00–21:00
Saturdays 9:00–13:00
Online from anywhere in Ecuador