Demo Day in Alicante: kids turned ideas into real AI projects

·Updated ·4 min read·By Brian Greene
Brian opening the June AI Kids Club Demo Day at Torre Juana

On June 11 at Torre Juana, AI Kids Club students did something most adults avoid: they stood up in front of a room and explained something they had made.

Some showed games. Some showed creative tools. Some showed drawings transformed with AI. The important part was not the microphone or the certificates. It was ownership: each child had an idea, built a version of it, and could explain the choices behind it.

Brian opening Demo Day in front of families at Torre Juana
A young Builder presenting a football project on the projector
A Builder presenting Planet Painter with a microphone
A hand-drawn cat transformed into an AI image during Demo Day

A room full of builders

The best part was not any single project. It was the room.

Younger kids were sitting on the floor watching older kids present. Older kids were seeing the younger ones bring drawings, characters, and stories into AI. Parents were not just politely waiting for their child's turn; they were watching the other projects too. Kids recognized each other's work, reacted to it, asked about it, and played it.

That is the thing Demo Day makes visible. AI Kids Club is not only a class where a kid works on a laptop. It is a room where kids make things, test each other's ideas, and learn that building something gives you a reason to stand up and talk.

A few projects from the room

The youngest Builders mixed drawings, characters, stories, and simple games. The older Builders went deeper into playable apps, strategy games, sports games, and tools. Here are a few from the showcase.

Planet Painter

Planet Painter

Planet Painter is an interactive space playground. Move through a field of colorful planets, play with motion and color, and see how a small idea can become a polished visual project.

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MarcosCraft

MarcosCraft

MarcosCraft takes the Minecraft frame kids already understand and turns it into a Builder project. Terrain, movement, a world to explore — a familiar idea made personal.

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Obby Maker

Obby Maker

Obby Maker is a tool for building obstacle-course levels. Instead of only playing a game, the Builder made a way to create one.

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Why presenting changes the work

Demo Day changes how kids build.

When they know someone else will try the project, the work becomes more real. They test more carefully. They polish. They practice explaining the idea in normal language. They learn that building is not only making something work on a screen. It is making something another person can understand.

Make something real. Polish it. Practice explaining it. Show it live.

That is the core of the program.

Why Demo Day works

Demo Day gives the program a finish line.

In the last sessions before the event, kids polished, tested, and practiced. They had to decide what version was good enough to show. They had to explain the idea in normal language. They had to run the demo live, with people watching.

That is a serious skill. Most adults avoid it.

For parents, it is also the clearest proof of what the program is. You do not have to imagine whether your child is learning. You can see the project, hear the explanation, ask questions, and watch the pride on their face when the certificate lands in their hands.

And for kids, the certificate matters. It is not just a souvenir. It marks the moment: you made something, you showed it, and the room saw it.

For families looking for an AI class in Alicante, this is the clearest version of what we teach: kids choose an idea, build it with AI, test it, polish it, and present it. The screen is not the point. The point is learning how to make something and explain it clearly.

What comes next

The June Demo Day made the next shape clearer: one AI Kids Club Builder program, with age-banded classes, real projects, and Demo Day as the moment where the work becomes public.

July is the next version of that format as a full summer camp week. Fall brings the ongoing weekly program.

The point stays the same: kids creating, not consuming. Building, not scrolling. AI as the tool, but the idea, the choices, and the presentation belong to them.

Try the projects

The best way to understand Demo Day is to try what the kids made. Here are the Builder projects from the June showcase.

The full project gallery is at aikidsclub.org/projects. Families looking for the next format can see the July AI summer camp in Alicante, or read how AI Kids Club compares with robotics and coding classes for kids.

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