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Empower your child with essential tech skills

Hands-on maker classes where kids take on real-world problems — designing, building and coding solutions that actually work. A 10-year head start on the innovations that will shape our future.

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Bus Buddy 2-day maker camp
NEW PROGRAM SCHOOL HOLIDAY CAMPS

Holiday maker camps

Multi-day camps in the school holidays where kids design, build and code a real gadget — and take it home at the end.

Bus Buddy e-ink bus-arrival card on a table, with a Singapore double-decker bus outside
2-DAY MAKER CAMP
NOV SCHOOL HOLIDAYS AGES 9–12 TAKE-HOME BUILD

Bus Buddy

The e-ink bus-arrival card that shows the real next bus for your stop — designed, 3D-printed and coded by your child.

DAY 1
Design the cover, send it to print overnight, wire up the electronics
DAY 2
Assemble the case, code the display, demo at the showcase
$500
Build, T-shirt & lunch included
萤窗书苑 Lumen Academy logo
Co-organised with 萤窗书苑
19 Leedon Heights, #01-66, S266227
Summer & holiday camps — more coming soon
New themes every school holiday. Register your interest and we'll let you know when the next camp opens.
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OUR PROGRAMS

One maker pathway, two levels

Every project starts from a real-world problem. Kids grow from curious explorers into makers who engineer working solutions. Not sure which level fits? Ask us.

Colourful machines built from construction blocks and motors
LEVEL 1 HANDS-ON FOUNDATIONS

Explorer

Solve everyday challenges by building — with mechanisms, robots, printed parts and simple circuits.

General engineering: structures, gears, motors and mechanisms
LEGO robotics: build and program working robots
3D printing design: design and print your own parts
Circuit work: LEDs, resistors, switches and motors
Students building and testing their own robot hardware at a NextBuilder maker class
LEVEL 2 ADVANCED · HARDWARE CODING

Maker

Take a real-world problem from idea to working device — custom hardware, real sensors and code.

Hardware coding on ESP32 microcontrollers
Industry-grade sensors — ultrasonic, gyroscope — and motor drivers
Power design: choosing motors and supplies, wiring safely
Custom 3D-printed mechanisms for their own robot
System-logic design, coding with an AI assistant
Big projects that solve a real problem, end to end
INSIDE A MAKER PROJECT

Building an autonomous vacuum robot

The problem: keeping a room clean, all by itself. Our makers took it from a plastic-bottle prototype to a robot that drives, senses and cleans on its own.

  1. STEP 1
    First prototype
    A working vacuum built from recycled bottles — intake, exhaust and airflow.
  2. STEP 2
    Hardware coding
    ESP32, servos and ultrasonic sensors; turning a sensor reading into a motor angle with a formula.
  3. STEP 3
    Plan the robot
    Decision trees and pseudo-code to navigate a room and find the way back to base.
  4. STEP 4
    Design the parts
    A 3D-designed drive system and a suction head shaped by the Bernoulli effect.
  5. STEP 5
    Build & test
    Print, assemble, add a filter and dust box — real suction, tested in class.
  6. STEP 6
    Wire & program
    Sensors including a gyroscope, the right power supply, and code built with an AI assistant.
Building a Vacuum Robot — watch the makers in action
WATCH · BUILDING A VACUUM ROBOT
Robot body with ESP32 board and wiring 3D-printed parts stamped with the NextBuilder name
HOW WE TEACH

Engineers who own the idea

01

Real-world problems first

Every project starts from a problem kids can see around them — catching the bus, a dusty floor — and ends with a solution they built.

02

Thinking before code

Formulas, pseudo-code and decision trees come first, so kids understand the logic instead of copying code.

03

Kids own the logic, AI writes the code

They learn to direct an AI coding assistant, give it the right feedback, and test the result on real hardware.

04

Real builds, not kits

Nothing pre-made: kids design, print, wire and test it themselves until it genuinely works.

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES

Beyond the classroom

01

Startup Attachment

Kids get attached to real growing tech startups — working alongside founders, seeing innovation from the inside.

02

Pitch to Investors

A unique stage for young makers to pitch their ideas to real investors — building confidence and entrepreneurial thinking.

03

Global Innovation Tours

Educational tours to the world's most innovative companies — a first-hand view of where technology is headed.

WHO WE ARE

Founded by tech entrepreneurs

NextBuilder was started by tech entrepreneurs who work with new technology every day. We bring that experience — and our workplaces and network — into every class, so kids see how real solutions get built.

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Edison Jiang as a young child wearing a mixed-reality headset
Edison Jiang
CO-FOUNDER

I've been exposed to futuristic technology since I was 3 years old. I like building things, to improve the way we live and work.

Ender and Edison on a laptop screen running a face-tracking program
Ender Jiang
GUARDIAN CO-FOUNDER

I'm a tech entrepreneur, founder of Hiverlab. I've been coaching kids in tech over the past 2 years, starting with Edison.

PARTNER WITH US

Be the change you want for your kids.

Are you a co-founder of a tech company who'd like to share your work with kids? We're looking for partners from robotics, AI and space science to collaborate on venues and workshops.

If you're a tech startup founder with kids learning tech, looking for like-minded friends and exciting opportunities — let's build meaningful programs together.

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CONTACT US

Let's build the future together

For camp bookings, program enquiries and collaborations, send us a message or email us directly.

EMAIL US
nextbuilder42@gmail.com