BAI KIDS · AGES 8–13 · IN DEVELOPMENT
Turn something you wonder about into a story, a game or a small project.
BAI Kids is a programme model being developed for children to explore age-appropriate tools in a safe, guided setting and create stories, games and small projects.
Current status
In development · Applications are not open
The programme idea, age paths, proposed stages, safety requirements and example questions are published. There is no live cohort, open call, appointed guide team or verified pilot with real participants. This page describes a design that remains open to review and correction; it is not a promise of delivery.
What could you make?
Your first project can be small. What matters is that your curiosity and effort shape it.
Stories and drawing
Create your own character, short story, comic or illustrated guide.
Games and puzzles
Turn an idea into a playful rule, a small game or a puzzle to solve with friends.
Audio and video
Make a short recording, animation or safely produced video that explains something clearly.
Code and small tools
Use blocks or age-appropriate assistants to build a page, a simple tool or a small prototype.
Nature and fieldwork
Record something you notice at home, in your neighbourhood or in nature, then turn it into a map, diary or project.
Service
Design something clear and useful for your family, school or other children.
The human side
Know what you are making, why it matters and whom it serves.
Name your sources, carry your task within the team, protect privacy, acknowledge mistakes and do not hand responsibility for decisions to a machine.
Tools and making
Learn today’s tools and use them for the right work.
Code, games, media, research, data and model-based tools are not the goal. They assist meaningful and responsible work.
A starting point that fits you
Each age path uses a different language, level of responsibility and safety boundary.
An eight-year-old and a thirteen-year-old should not use the same tools or carry the same responsibilities. A starting path is chosen around your age, interests and the adults who will accompany you.
Proposed age path · 8–10
Family visibilityBAI Kids Discovery
Ages 8–10: curiosity, the difference between people and tools, digital EDEB and a first experience of teamwork.
Example projects
- • Story
- • Drawing and short animation
- • Block-based game
- • Simple web page
Proposed age path · 11–13
Family visibilityBAI Junior Builders
Ages 11–13: moving from consumption to making, with attention to sources, privacy and a small continuing circle.
Example projects
- • Game
- • Chatbot prototype
- • Short video
- • Simple dataset
- • Shared media project
A supported first role
Starting as a yamak
Yamak is the name we use for a supported first role. It does not make a child or young person a low-value helper or a source of unpaid labour. It is a safe way to observe a new field, ask questions, take on small tasks and learn the EDEB of making alongside a master or journeyman.
Responsibility grows with age, skill, team experience and the ability to care for the consequences of the work. Becoming a Builder is not gaining a title; it means carrying more responsibility for sources, limits, mistakes, correction and maintenance.
Proposed programme path
A path designed to move from first experiments to making things with friends in a safe circle.
- 01
Meet and explore
Proposed duration: 4–6 weeks · Weekly
Discover what interests you and make a first small project with age-appropriate tools.
- 02
Learn the foundations
Proposed duration: 12 weeks · Weekly
Follow regular tasks in stories, games, media or code.
- 03
Join your circle
Proposed duration: Continuing · Weekly or fortnightly
Share tasks with friends, review one another’s work and learn to ask for help.
- 04
Choose a small need
Proposed duration: 6–8 weeks · Sprint rhythm
Try a shared response to a real and understandable question.
- 05
Make and improve
Proposed duration: 12–16 weeks · Release rhythm
Show what you made, receive feedback, find what did not work and prepare a new version.
- 06
Open it to HAYR
Proposed duration: Continuing · Periodic review
Where appropriate, let your project serve your family, school or other children in a safe way.
Questions teams could work on
A real need can bring different interests and abilities into one team.
These records are not open calls for participation. They are examples of questions future teams could work on. The aim is to understand a real need in a family, school, profession or community and seek a response together.
Question for future work · Participation is not open
Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy
Carry the digital safety of children and families as a shared MİLLET responsibility.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
Family Life and Screens
Protect time, attention and relationships at home through shared experience and practical service.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
A Safe and Responsible Internet
Renew the internet as a shared space for knowledge and service through trustworthy sources and human responsibility.
Read the Mission file →Question for future work · Participation is not open
BAI and Responsible Representation in Schools
Bring teachers, families and young people together around responsible learning and shared production.
Read the Mission file →Child SEDD
Safety is not a separate lesson. It belongs in every step, from account setup to publication.
Projects are not made public automatically. Tools, shared information, meeting rooms and publication decisions are handled through age-appropriate permissions and visible adult support.
Private by default
Your project is seen only by the children and trusted adults involved until a separate publication decision is made.
Visible communication
There is no unsupervised private messaging or closed meeting between a child and an adult.
Minimum data
Names, images, voices, locations and account details are used only when genuinely needed and with clear permission.
Separate permission to publish
Permission to use a tool is not permission to publish a child’s name, image or project.
A model is an assistant
A machine model is not presented as a friend, teacher, religious authority or final decision-maker.
The right to stop
A child and their family can withdraw from participation, recording or publication through a clear process.
Who should guide this programme?
You would be accompanied by trusted people with different responsibilities, not by one all-purpose “instructor”.
The BAI Guild for Children and Youth Guidance is still being formed. It has no appointed members, boards or programme team. The proposed guild should develop the programme language, tools, circles and safeguarding boundaries together. Professional mastery alone does not authorise someone to work with children; continuing guidance also requires pedagogical and safeguarding competence.
Teacher
Introduces core ideas and skills in language suited to the age group.
Guide
Supports the participant’s direction, team relationships and growing responsibility.
Master
Brings real professional experience from games, code, media, data or another field of making.
Journeyman
Works alongside the team in day-to-day production and connects beginners with the master.
Circle facilitator
Keeps the meeting rhythm, task-sharing and continuity working.
Safeguarding lead
Follows the age, privacy, communication, tool-use and publication boundaries.
Explore how the programme is being designed and the safety conditions it must meet.
BAI Kids is not currently accepting applications and no live circle is running. This page sets out the intended age paths, forms of making and child-safety requirements.