Program partners

A product-building track for your program.

When AI can produce almost anything, what sets students apart is agency, taste, and craft. Arena adds a track that builds them to your program, under your brand.

  • Length2 to 7 days
  • Group10 to 25 students
  • LanguageEnglish and Chinese
  • BrandYours, in front of families
What program operators weigh

Four concerns, one track.

What camp operators, bootcamps, and enrichment brands ask before adding a track, and how it is set up.

  1. The concern

    Families want AI, experts are hard to staff

    Building a credible AI program means finding people who have built real products.

    How the track handles it

    Led by a co-founder

    An Arena co-founder leads the track, with guest speakers and judges from leading universities and companies.

  2. The concern

    Your brand is on the line

    Families trust your name, and an outside partner should not get in the way.

    How the track handles it

    Your brand stays in front

    Families see your brand throughout, and your team keeps full control of recruiting, venue, and operations.

  3. The concern

    Families want to see results

    A week of activities is hard to show at the end.

    How the track handles it

    A product they can show

    Students choose a real problem and finish a product; products stay live after the program.

  4. The concern

    Terms need to be clear

    A new track has to fit your budget and your enrollment.

    How the track handles it

    Agreed up front

    Fixed fee, revenue share, or a hybrid, agreed before the program, with enrollment reviewed together.

Student data comes first

Before which tool, ask: whose account is it?

Our first job is safeguarding students. The same AI tool can be safe or unsafe for student data, depending on the account it runs in.

A personal account

Signed up by one person

Terms
Consumer terms, accepted by one user
Data agreement
None with the school
Safeguards set by
The provider
Student data
Not approved for student data

A school-approved platform

Set up and managed by the school

Terms
An enterprise agreement with the school
Data agreement
Yes, agreed by the school
Safeguards set by
The school
Student data
Approved, under the school’s policy
How we handle it
  • Inside your approved platforms

    We work only in the accounts and tools your school approves, and agree the data rules with your team before any session.

  • No student data in personal accounts

    Student names, work, and records never go into a personal or consumer account.

  • Sample data for practice

    Teacher sessions use teachers’ own materials or anonymized sample data, not student records.

  • AI use disclosed

    Learners say which steps they handed to AI, and how they used it.

  • Teachers learn to check the terms

    Every teacher session covers whose account a tool runs in and what its data agreement says.

  • Your data-protection lead decides

    We follow your data-protection officer and policy, and adjust when they do.

The full checklist and the law behind it →

The track

What your students walk away with.

For camp operators, bootcamps, and enrichment brands: students choose a real problem, build with AI tools, and finish a product they can show.

  1. The core module

    The product track

    Problem selection, user research, building with AI coding tools, brand, pricing, and a final pitch to judges.

  2. The teaching team

    Experienced mentors

    Led by an Arena co-founder, with guest speakers and judges from leading universities and companies.

  3. The follow-through

    After the program

    Products stay live after the program, and optional mentorship keeps students working on them.

What the research says

Students use AI. Few are taught to use it well.

Two findings from RAND’s national surveys. Each links to its source.

How we work together

You run the program. We deliver the track.

Your brand stays in front of families, and your team keeps full control of the operation.

Your side

Students and stage

  • Recruiting and enrollment
  • Venue and operations
  • The family relationship
Our side

Curriculum and delivery

  • A curriculum adapted to your students
  • Teaching, AI tools, and accounts
  • Guest speakers and demo day
Commercials

Structured to fit

  • Fixed fee, revenue share, or hybrid
  • Agreed up front
  • Enrollment reviewed together
Where we have done this

Tracks we have delivered.

  • Bodley Academy · Hong Kong, summer 2025

    Twenty students, five days

    A five-day course designed and taught by Phillip An. Each student worked on one real problem they chose.

    Students
    20
    Rating
    9.5 / 10 Net Promoter Score
    See results →
  • International School of Beijing · Summer 2026

    A five-day student program

    Over five days, students built working websites and apps with AI and presented them to judges, on the school’s campus with mentors in the room.

    Where
    International School of Beijing
    Judges
    Founders and operators from Harvard, Stanford, Y Combinator, and AI labs
    See results →
  • Next · With Lux Scholar, Guangzhou

    The AI Advantage Bootcamp

    Seven days where college students, master’s students, and early-career professionals launch a live product, jointly hosted by Arena School and Lux Scholar.

    When
    Dec 27, 2026 to Jan 2, 2027
    Where
    Guangzhou, in person
    See the bootcamp →
Tools students build with
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • DeepSeek
  • Figma
  • GitHub
  • Vercel

Accounts are set up as part of the track.

Questions

What operators ask.

Whose platform do participants use?

Yours, when it is approved for student data. We work inside your platforms and policy; student personal data stays out of personal and consumer accounts.

How long is the track?

Two to seven days, set with you to fit your program.

How many students?

Ten to twenty-five students per group.

Which languages?

English and Chinese.

Whose brand do families see?

Yours. Your team keeps the family relationship, recruiting, venue, and operations.

What happens after the program?

Products stay live, and optional mentorship keeps students working on them.

Next step

Tell us about your program.

Your students, their ages, and your dates. We reply within three working days with a proposed format.

Students demo their product
A live demo, International School of Beijing, 2026