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Ember Coding Lab offers kids hands-on projects in Roblox coding, Python coding, and AI (artificial intelligence). Students work in Roblox Studio on game development, modeling and scripting, building mini games like Bake a Pizza, using tools such as Select, Move, Scale, and Rotate, learning parent-child relationships, writing scripts in Lua, designing game environments, using Tween Service to fade out blocks, creating NPCs with Rig Builder and AI-driven behaviors, and publishing and sharing games on the Roblox platform. They also use Python Turtle, build Python projects with Raspberry Pi, explore computer vision and audio processing, take part in an AI competition where they build an original AI project and present it to judges, join a Biomimicry Challenge to build technology that mimics a natural occurrence on Earth, and create 3D-printed keychains.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Weekly 50-minute coding sessions, plus a six-session Roblox Coding with AI course with each session 50 minutes long
• Price: Membership is $199/month for one weekly session; additional sessions are $50 per session, and siblings receive a 10% discount
Ember Coding Lab offers self-paced and tutor-guided courses with a 1:4 teacher-to-student ratio, and provides iMacs, headphones, and a curated video curriculum so students do not need to bring a laptop or other equipment. For the Roblox Coding with AI course, no coding experience is required, and an iMac and headphones are provided. The program teaches kids ages 6–12 computer science and AI and reports an 80% Sean Ellis score, more than 1,000 students worldwide, a 5.0 Google rating, and 44% of students being girls.
Instructors are UCSD Computer Science and Engineering students and select high school mentors who are described as passionate technologists from UCSD, hired for passion in teaching and technical skill, and given extensive training in Ember's curriculum. Ember Coding Lab’s curriculum is based on the MIT Media Lab constructionist principle that kids learn by creating things that matter to them, and its Python curriculum is mapped to AP Computer Science Principles requirements. The classroom space has whiteboard walls inspired by Google’s collaborative workspaces, and the lab is described as a coding and AI lab for bright, curious minds where kids code games they love in Roblox and then move on to Python and AI.
Ember Coding Lab offers a free 30-minute 1:1 discovery session with expert instructors, and its Roblox coding is described as its signature and most known service. Ember runs an 8-week AI Competition each fall with final presentations to judges and uses the Biomimicry Challenge as a capstone project. Ember Coding Lab is partnering with the League of Amazing Programmers to teach its course in the League’s hacienda space, with more than 30% of proceeds donated to support the League’s mission to prepare kids for science and technology careers of the 21st century.
The founder, Cecilia Hahn, leads Ember Coding Lab and describes Del Mar as a community where families fundraise for STEAM+ education, local businesses support each other, and residents care about preserving what makes the village special. Ember describes its community as one where kids learn impressive skills, support each other, and realize they can create things that matter. Testimonials from kids and parents mention projects like an obby in Roblox called Groovy Foodies, describe staff as friendly and knowledgeable, and note that kids are engaged, energized, and that the program takes feedback and adjusts curriculum based on specific student needs.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Weekly 50-minute coding sessions, plus a six-session Roblox Coding with AI course with each session 50 minutes long
• Price: Membership is $199/month for one weekly session; additional sessions are $50 per session, and siblings receive a 10% discount
Ember Coding Lab offers self-paced and tutor-guided courses with a 1:4 teacher-to-student ratio, and provides iMacs, headphones, and a curated video curriculum so students do not need to bring a laptop or other equipment. For the Roblox Coding with AI course, no coding experience is required, and an iMac and headphones are provided. The program teaches kids ages 6–12 computer science and AI and reports an 80% Sean Ellis score, more than 1,000 students worldwide, a 5.0 Google rating, and 44% of students being girls.
Instructors are UCSD Computer Science and Engineering students and select high school mentors who are described as passionate technologists from UCSD, hired for passion in teaching and technical skill, and given extensive training in Ember's curriculum. Ember Coding Lab’s curriculum is based on the MIT Media Lab constructionist principle that kids learn by creating things that matter to them, and its Python curriculum is mapped to AP Computer Science Principles requirements. The classroom space has whiteboard walls inspired by Google’s collaborative workspaces, and the lab is described as a coding and AI lab for bright, curious minds where kids code games they love in Roblox and then move on to Python and AI.
Ember Coding Lab offers a free 30-minute 1:1 discovery session with expert instructors, and its Roblox coding is described as its signature and most known service. Ember runs an 8-week AI Competition each fall with final presentations to judges and uses the Biomimicry Challenge as a capstone project. Ember Coding Lab is partnering with the League of Amazing Programmers to teach its course in the League’s hacienda space, with more than 30% of proceeds donated to support the League’s mission to prepare kids for science and technology careers of the 21st century.
The founder, Cecilia Hahn, leads Ember Coding Lab and describes Del Mar as a community where families fundraise for STEAM+ education, local businesses support each other, and residents care about preserving what makes the village special. Ember describes its community as one where kids learn impressive skills, support each other, and realize they can create things that matter. Testimonials from kids and parents mention projects like an obby in Roblox called Groovy Foodies, describe staff as friendly and knowledgeable, and note that kids are engaged, energized, and that the program takes feedback and adjusts curriculum based on specific student needs.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
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