Build a Global AI Product from Singapore — 6th Kids AI Industry Immersion Camp (Ages 7–15 and Parents)

Singapore's year-end school holidays open with six days inside the companies that build AI.

The 6th Kids AI Industry Immersion Camp runs from 21 to 26 November 2026 at the ACE Ideation Centre @ one-north, with learning journeys into tech and AI native companies across the city. Children aged 7 to 15 — and the parents who want to learn beside them — spend 48.5 supervised hours moving through every stage a startup goes through: the problem, the customer, the product, the price, the launch and the feedback.

Each day has two parts. In the first, children learn and build. In the second, they are with industry: a mentorship round in a small group, a fireside chat with a technology leader, or a visit to a company at work.

By the fifth day each child has a product, a customer in mind, a price and a pitch. By the sixth, they know what it would take to sell it.

This is not a holiday coding class. Confirmed participation for November 2026 includes senior regional leaders from LinkedIn, Microsoft, IBM and Wavestone, a former Intel tech sales leader, and the former Chief Digitalisation and Data Officer of the Republic of Singapore Air Force. Cohorts are capped at 10 to 20 participants so that every child and adult received 1:1 attention and personalised learning.

Four findings shape how this camp is built.

1. Most AI jobs are not developer jobs. PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer found that around 82 per cent of AI-related job postings are for AI user roles rather than AI developer roles. The scarce skill is not writing models; it is knowing what to build, judging whether the output is any good, and shipping it to someone who wants it. This is why the camp does not require coding and does not score it. Children work with the tools professionals actually use — Lovable, Google AI Studio, Claude — and are judged on problem fit, whether the product works, responsible AI reasoning, the pitch, and what they learned.

2. The skills themselves are moving. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 projects that 39 per cent of workers' existing skill sets will be transformed or become outdated by 2030, with 170 million new roles created and 92 million displaced. Its fastest-growing skill is AI and big data; alongside it rise creative thinking, resilience and flexibility, and curiosity and lifelong learning. A child who learns one tool learns something with a short shelf life. A child who learns to start from a stranger's problem, build, fail, and start again carries a method that outlasts the tool.

3. Singapore's demand is immediate, and visible in the job market. The same PwC analysis found AI's share of Singapore job postings rose to 5.3 per cent in 2025, from 3.3 per cent the year before. Under the National AI Strategy 2.0, Singapore has set out to raise its AI practitioner pool to 15,000 from roughly 4,500, over three to five years. The children in this room will enter that market in the 2030s. Their parents are in it now.

4. There is an agreed international standard for what children should learn about AI, and it is not a coding syllabus. UNESCO's AI Competency Framework for Students, published in 2024, sets out four competencies: a human-centred mindset, the ethics of AI, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design. The camp's six days map onto all four — agency and career imagination on Days 1 and 6, inclusive and responsible design on Day 4, building and agents on Days 1, 2 and 5, and system design across the full product arc from problem to pitch.

What this means for a future-ready child. The programme's claim is deliberately narrow. Six days will not make a child an engineer. What six days can do is move a child from consuming AI to directing it and give them evidence of that shift they can show you: a product they built, a jury card with written feedback, a failure they logged and recovered from, and a conversation they held with a real AI founder and tech executive.

Skills covered

• Artificial intelligence literacy — beginner to intermediate

• AI agents and vibe coding fundamentals — beginner

• Human-centred and inclusive product design — beginner

• Product management fundamentals — beginner

• Entrepreneurship: founder mindset, business model canvas, lean startup, minimum viable product, sales and go-to-market — beginner

• Responsible AI reasoning — beginner

• Pitching and communication — beginner to intermediate

By the end of the six days, each participant will have:

• Framed a real problem and designed an AI solution for their family, peers or community

• Built a working prototype from minimum viable to minimum lovable product

• Designed two AI products — one individually, one in a team — each with a customer in mind, a price, and a route to monetising it in 2027

• Pitched to an industry jury in a cross-functional team

• Learned how products get funded

• Logged a failure, taken user feedback, iterated, and shipped again

• Networked with global technology executives, Singapore scaleup founders, and solo bootstrapped builders.