CodeBrave

Not all AI teaching is equal.

Our Co-Director Clem Brown told ’s .bonsu what AI literacy should really mean in a classroom. Teaching kids to use AI isn’t the same as teaching them to question it, build with it, and know when to trust it.

Her warning: countries that stop at “consumption” risk falling behind those teaching kids to build. Most edtech in international development focuses on tools, not on that deeper skill.

Full conversation on Times Radio - 🔗 in bio

“Why does it look so perfect? It’s not supposed to look this good.”

That’s what Rawan thought when was checking her research results this summer. AI had produced them but she was the one who noticed they were wrong.

Rawan joined CodeBrave in 2022, from a public high school in Mount Lebanon, before ChatGPT existed. What she took from our programme wasn’t a tool; it was how to think.

Today, she’s studying Computer Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in the US on a full scholarship.

The tools have changed. The thinking hasn’t.

Full story soon.

“You did not just survive it. You built something inside it.”

This year, our students learnt Web Development and AI through one of the hardest years Lebanon has known recently. They showed up. They kept going. They built.

Keynote speaker (Co-Founder & Co-CEO, ) called it the one thing no programme can teach and no certificate can give: real stamina.

To Cohort 5: mabrouk. To Cohort 6: welcome.

Alaa said yes to building a website before he knew how to build one.
He told that story last month, at our Future Builders graduation event, speaking to new students and fellow alumni.
What started as curiosity about tech became 3 scholarships, 8 freelance contracts and a cybersecurity internship since joining CodeBrave.
His advice to the room: never wait to feel ready before saying yes to an opportunity.
It’s exactly the kind of story that shows students what is possible once they start.

At 14, sent a job application no one expected a teenager to send.
The CodeBrave alumna told that story at our Future Builders graduation event.
She shared how a simple email and determination turned into her first ever internship.
Since joining CodeBrave, she’s earned a full scholarship to AUB, joined Tech Girls and completed more than 5 internships.
Now, she’s launched her own initiative .lb and is a STEM advocate for girls with UNICEF.

PART 1 - Five years ago, Ahmad was a CodeBrave student. Today, he’s a software engineer who says the whole thing still “feels more like a dream.”

Full reel about his journey from learning the basics of web development and Python with CodeBrave to where he is today, coming soon. 👀

Follow for part 2 and more inspiring stories from our community.

Their teacher lost her sight in an accident. So her students built her a way to cross the road safely.

”Our project is based on our teacher, who has impaired vision. She had an accident and she can’t see. So we wanted to make sure that she’d be able to cross the road safely.” — Judge’s Award Winners, Mount Lebanon Public School

Our Mount Lebanon students won the Judge’s Award at the National Coding Fair’s Do Your Bit Competition for their Inclusive Pedestrian Crossing: a prototype designed to listen, guide, and support people with visual impairments. Every design decision, every line of code, made for someone they love. 💙

And they did it through a year of war, closures, and disruption, they just kept building.