Coco Coders turns its kids’ coding classes into a $199 AI course

Coco Coders, a company that teaches children to code online, has launched AI Adventurers, a six-week AI literacy course. Per the company, it is $199 and open for enrollment now, as its October 23 release says. Reuters carried the story.

Six one-hour classes, live and in small groups

AI Adventurers consists of six weekly one-hour sessions, taught live online in small groups. The company describes the sessions as interactive and project-based. Students write stories and comics with a chatbot built for children, and they train a classification model with machine learning. By the end they have a portfolio of their work and of the concepts they learned.

The release lists three themes: what AI is and how it works in general terms, how to use it safely and effectively, and how to judge and improve its output through prompting. Each week follows a four-step routine the company calls the C.O.C.O. mantra: choose a goal, observe the output, challenge the output, and own the work.

The release does not give an age range, but the course page says the class is for children aged 10 to 12, grouped by age and experience. That page also gives the $199 price. It lists the outcomes as real-world AI, prompt engineering, fact-checking, model training, debugging AI, data privacy, and safety and ethics, but it has no week-by-week outline. Founder and CEO Elizabeth Tweedale calls the course “the next evolutionary step” for the company.

What the source leaves open

The course page says classes start the week of October 12. That is before the release date, so it is unclear whether the page is out of date or the first cohort is already under way. Neither document says when later cohorts begin, how many children are in a group, or what the teachers’ qualifications are. The claims about learning outcomes come from the company, and no independent evaluation of the course was cited.

For parents, the practical question is what this adds to the AI tools their children already meet at school or on their own. The company’s answer is a structured, supervised setting. It uses a kid-safe chatbot, and it teaches pupils to question what a model produces, not just to type prompts.

A coding school moves toward AI literacy to widen its offer

The launch follows the company’s own plan. In a May 2026 release about its $2.5 million seed round, Coco Coders listed expanding students’ AI literacy as a goal. The round was led by Homegrown Capital Fund I and included several regional venture funds and crowdfunding investors. The same release said annual recurring revenue had tripled from $500,000 at the time of the raise to $1.5 million as of May 2026. It also said the program serves students in all 50 U.S. states, the U.K. and more than 10 other countries. Other stated plans were deeper school partnerships and in-school programs in Iowa, Nevada, North Dakota and South Dakota.

Read against those figures, AI Adventurers looks like a product aimed at the families the company already reaches. A standalone six-week course with a fixed price is easier to try than a long coding subscription, and it gives the company a way to sell AI literacy to existing customers. Whether it also serves the school programs is not stated in the release. That the company positions the course as an extension of its coding curriculum, rather than a separate brand, suggests it sees the two subjects as one pipeline. This is an interpretation, not something the company says.

Coco Coders is a small player in a field where much attention goes to the large model makers. Its move is a sign of how AI literacy is becoming a product category in children’s education. The $199 price and the age band are the concrete facts to weigh. Outcomes remain unproven until parents or independent reviewers report on them.