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Month 1 — Expressive Python
Variables, conditions, loops, functions, lists and dictionaries. First personal mini-project (a text-based game, a converter or a calculator). Clean code from day one — readable, commented, shared.
Advanced cycle · Sixth-form students · 14 — 17 years CENIT AI Architects
CENIT AI Architects
Preparing your child's future — through projects, never through rote learning.
AI Architects is CENIT's excellence programme for sixth-form students. It is a one-year journey designed to give your teenager the solid foundations — technical, creative and professional — that will make a difference whatever paths they choose tomorrow. Students build, as a team, a real AI project (a deployed application, an intelligent assistant, an autonomous agent) which they defend before a panel of Moroccan practitioners: working developers, AI product leads, and startup founders.
I — For parents
What we guarantee you.
For parents: detailed monthly follow-up, projects published under your child's name, lifelong access to the CENIT alumni network, and a satisfaction-or-refund guarantee on the first month.
II — Promise
By the end of the year, your teenager has an AI project deployed under their own name, a public portfolio on GitHub, and the technical autonomy to keep building their own ideas.
III — Detailed curriculum
The curriculum in detail.
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Month 2 — Understanding AI
What a model is, how a machine learns, where its limits lie. Vocabulary, hands-on examples, accessible exercises — without heavy algebra or advanced statistics.
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Month 3 — Text generation
Large language models and their cousins. Advanced prompt engineering: structuring requests, comparing answers, constraining the format. Building a first personal-use assistant.
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Month 4 — Image & vision
Image-generation tools, image classification via API, object recognition. A short visual project: a small creative tool that turns an idea into a shareable image.
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Month 5 — Designing the personal project
Choosing a topic that holds together, writing a simplified specification, sketching the first mock-ups, organising the team. Product design before code.
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Month 6 — Building & Git
Coding together with Git and GitHub, structuring the project, writing readable documentation, getting into the habit of code reviews. The good practices of a professional team.
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Month 7 — Integrating AI into the project
Wiring up an AI API cleanly, managing secure keys, storing simple data, understanding the ethical stakes and law 09-08 explained at student level.
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Month 8 — Deployment & domain
Putting the project online (Vercel, Netlify), reserving a personal domain name, tracking the first users and acting on feedback. The project truly exists, under their name.
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Month 9 — Portfolio & defence
Building the online portfolio, preparing a 20-minute public presentation, defending before a panel of practitioners, and a closing ceremony with the embossed certificate awarded.
IV — Deliverables
What your child takes home.
- A complete AI project, deployed online, under your child's name
- A public portfolio on GitHub and on the CENIT showcase
- A public defence before a panel (40 min)
- A CENIT certificate — AI Architect (embossed, numbered seal)
- Lifelong access to the CENIT alumni network
V — Skills acquired
What they will know.
- Expressive Python (variables, functions, simple classes)
- Mainstream AI libraries (Hugging Face, OpenAI, scikit-learn)
- Prompt engineering and first notions of agents
- Project methodology (Git, GitHub, documentation)
- Product design and interface design
- Oral presentation in French and in English
VI — Module · English prerequisite
English
for AI.
All technical AI documentation — libraries, papers, tools — is written in English. This module brings your teenager up to an effective B1 level (reading, listening comprehension, targeted written expression) in eight focused sessions. A bridge, not a general-purpose language course: we work on real AI vocabulary and on the exercises they will encounter in Architects.
On the programme
- Reading of README files, short papers and technical tutorials.
- AI and software vocabulary: 200 essential terms.
- Listening comprehension (conference videos, short podcasts).
- Written expression: code comments, project descriptions, applications.
Terms
- Free placement test on entry (30 min, by application).
- Named follow-up and end-of-module review.
- Module recommended ahead of or alongside the Architects cycle.
VII — Bridge · by application
Builder
Accelerator.
A condensed pathway for motivated students who do not yet have the foundations required to step straight into Architects. Drawn from the Builders cycle and repackaged at sixth-form level: in six weeks we cover what 11-13 year-olds see in a semester. The goal: to be ready to begin Architects with confidence.
On the programme
- First personal website (HTML, CSS, hosting).
- Foundations of Python through games and hands-on activities.
- First AI mini-project (chatbot or generation tool).
- Introduction to Git and collaboration on GitHub.
Terms
- Assessment interview to calibrate the starting level.
- Fee set by application (discount if completed before Architects).
- Successful completion conditions entry to the Architects cycle.
VIII — Option · by selection
One week
in industry.
A week of immersion on the CENIT premises, on a real project brought by a partner organisation: a tech startup, an AI consultancy, the data team of a major group. Your teenager joins a sprint led by a field mentor and contributes to a tangible deliverable — not an observation visit, a real production cycle as part of a team.
What they take away
- A real mission led as part of a team, delivered to the client.
- A CENIT internship certificate signed by the company.
- A personalised letter of recommendation if the mission is exemplary.
- A written debrief, added to the student's public portfolio.
To apply
- Dedicated application file for the internship.
- Individual motivation interview with the academic direction.
- Handwritten letter of motivation, signed by the student.
Pre-registration Enrol my child
Enrol my child
in CENIT AI Architects.
Our team will call you back within 24 hours to validate the registration, schedule a campus visit, and answer all your questions as a parent.