China City TourShenzhen Sep 26–27 · Hangzhou Oct 5–6Enrolling→Overseas Tour · Stop 1Kuala Lumpur 9/19 · Penang 10/24 · Johor Bahru 11/28Enrolling→International Youth AI Hackathon CLUBFrom a single sparkto a field of creation
A single spark can start a prairie fire. Dare to dream, build, and take the stage.
From One Spark to Real Impact.
Liaoye isn't an AI course —
we're a global youthAI hackathon community
About Liaoye
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Who we are
Liaoye is an AI hackathon creator community for youth worldwide. We don't “teach” kids — we connect them into a real world of creators.
Six connections
Real problems
Starting from a child's own life, moving toward campus, city and society to find problems worth solving.
Peers in sync
Kids who want to think, build and create see each other, and ignite one another through collaboration and feedback.
Global perspective
Continuously seeing what outstanding youth around the world build with AI — opening new horizons.
Frontier tools
Matching the right LLMs, Vibe Coding, agents, video and smart hardware to each project's real needs.
Real feedback
Work leaves the “hand it to the teacher” bubble and meets real users, industry guests and external judges.
Global resources
By direction and maturity, connecting mentors and events in Singapore, Silicon Valley and beyond.
Three abilities a child takes away
AI project ability
Breaking a vague idea into tasks, prototypes and an executable next step.
Judgment of value
Judging why a project is worth doing, who it helps, and whether it creates real value.
Lasting creativity
Continuously observing, choosing, creating and iterating amid ever-changing AI tools.
Why Liaoye
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Why Liaoye exists
We saw four things happening at once.
The era changed
“Knowing how to use AI tools” is no longer scarce. What's scarce is finding real problems, judging what's worth doing, and turning ideas into useful things.
A crowded market
Most AI courses teach what expires fastest — one tool, a showable template, a certificate. Kids get trained into skilled operators of software.
Opportunity, not input
Kids don't lack knowledge input; they lack the chance to initiate creation: peers on the same wavelength, real feedback, lasting momentum.
A method mismatch
Creation is open problems and uncertain paths. Fixed syllabi, uniform homework and single deliverables simply can't teach it.
Not a training school
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We are not an AI training institution
Liaoye runs on small teams, deep mentorship, and pulling in specialist resources per project — not mass enrollment and assembly-line teaching.
No more than 8 kids per group
Each online group has at most 8 students, so every child's ideas, project direction and real sticking points get continuous attention.
Mentored by people who ship real projects
Our operations and project team studied at universities like Peking, Sun Yat-sen, Fudan and UIBE — but we aren't traditional schoolteachers. We're people who've spent years building real projects on the front lines of AI, the internet, product and startups.
Core tech mentors from the Tencent MyApp founding team
Our mentors bring 20+ years of hands-on internet, product and commercialization experience, normally working with senior AI engineers and enterprise teams (LLMs, agents, AI app development, product architecture, real-world delivery). We translate that into project paths kids can actually understand and practice — not watered down into “tool demos.”
Not a kids' coding class
We don't teach “learn syntax → drill problems → build one uniform deliverable,” and we don't make every kid follow the same template. Coding is just one ability a project may call on. A full AI hackathon project also runs through: finding a real problem → judging user needs → designing a solution → choosing AI tools → building a prototype → testing feedback → presenting in Chinese and English → iterating.
Content evolves with AI — not a fixed syllabus
LLMs, agents, Vibe Coding, AI programming, workflows, video generation and smart hardware keep changing. Our principle: match the tool to what the project needs; update the training as the tech shifts; and teach kids not to memorize one piece of software, but to quickly understand and use ever-changing AI productivity.
Kids meet far more than a lecturer
They work with project leads and mentors (handling direction, progress and parent communication), core tech mentors from the Tencent MyApp team, on-demand mentors across product, industry, investment, hardware and overseas resources, peers who also love to think and build — plus real users, industry guests, technical judges and hackathon resources at home and abroad.
Online mentorship + offline collaboration + connected resources
We have offices and training spaces in Hangzhou and Shenzhen. Beyond online projects, we run offline workshops, hackathon challenges, project exchanges, pitch training and milestone showcases. Liaoye isn't a one-off online course — it's a youth AI hackathon creator community combining online mentorship, real offline collaboration and global resource connections.
What we want kids to walk away with isn't “one more language learned” or “one more classroom assignment,” but the ability to turn their existing interests and skills into projects that genuinely solve needs in study, life, work or society — and, step by step, to build problem awareness, judgment, AI project ability and lasting creativity.
Track record
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We've already walked this path
Not a vision on paper — it's been proven by kids in real arenas.
Tencent Cloud Intl · Singapore
Our team made Top 10 out of 200+ international projects and pitched in English in Singapore.
UNESCO · China
We led a team at UNESCO's first youth hackathon in China — every student placed first.
Adventure X · Shenzhen
A cross-age team — a 9-year-old with Shenzhen high-schoolers — built NxtNews, a bilingual youth news product, and won 1st in the Youzan superrun track.
We never package one result into a promise — competition outcomes are uncertain. But it proved one thing: kids really can take the stage.
Featured project · Adventure X
A 9-year-old × high-schoolers built a real product — and won
At Adventure X, one of China's larger youth hackathons, Liaoye students teamed up across ages — a 9-year-old and Shenzhen high-schoolers — to build NxtNews, taking 1st place in the Youzan superrun track.
A bilingual daily-news product built for youth aged 8–18 worldwide.
A 9-year-old × Shenzhen high-schoolers · cross-age team · Adventure X · 1st in the Youzan superrun track
NxtNews beta is now open
Scan to join the beta group, be among the first to try it, and share your thoughts.
Real arena · Singapore
The real arena
Not stock photos — these are stages Liaoye kids have actually stood on: Tencent Cloud International Hackathon, Singapore.
Supporting partners
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Supporting partners
Supporting partners of the Liaoye China Youth AI Hackathon Tour, sharing a common focus on young people's innovation, project ability and growth in the AI era.
Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Economic and Cultural Exchange Center
Guangdong Guangren Tongxin Public Welfare Foundation
Charity partner
Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Youth Development Fund
Yee Cheung Industrial Community
National-level technology business incubatorCharity places · free for youth from families in need
As our charity partner, the Guangdong Guangren Tongxin Charity Foundation supports charity places that open the camp free of charge to eligible youth from families in difficulty, and oversees whether the programme stays true to its youth-growth purpose.
The China and overseas tours will reach more cities over time, bringing more young people into a real project arena — teaming up, finding problems, designing products, building with AI, showing Demos and pitching on stage, all within 48 hours.
With more support from society, we hope to build a bigger stage for young people — so that more children can observe the real world with AI, solve real problems, and truly build what they imagine.
Upcoming · Tour & City Meetups
2026
48H Youth AI Hackathon · City Tour
China Tour + Overseas Tour
The same real 48-hour hackathon, traveling city to city — from China to overseas. Every stop: on-site teaming, real problems, AI Demos, pitching and judges' Q&A.
Aug 1–2, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Aug 8–9, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Aug 22–23, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Sep 5–6, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Fujian Minyuan Hotel
Sep 26–27, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Shenzhen Bay Eco-Technology Park
Oct 5–6, 2026 · National Day holiday · 2 days offline
Xixi Legu Creative Park, Xihu District, Hangzhou
Sep 19–20, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Oct 24–25, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Nov 28–29, 2026 · Sat & Sun · 2 days offline
Saturday, September 5, 2026 · Shenzhen · Shenzhen Institute of Technological Innovation
Sunday, September 13, 2026 · Shenzhen · Shenzhen Bay Eco-Technology Park 12A
Small groups, limited seats per stop. Reach us on WeChat to consult and reserve first.
48H Youth AI Hackathon · Offline
China Tour · 48-Hour Youth AI Hackathon
Guangzhou · Hangzhou · Shenzhen — not another AI camp, but a real step out into the world
Two intensive offline days: spot a real problem, form a team on-site, build an AI Demo, pitch on stage, and face real questions from judges across tech, product and business.
DAY 1 · From first build to project sprint
Opening and intros, a Vibe Coding intro and your first app, themes and on-site teaming, project PK (phase 1) and a Demo progress review (09:00–17:30).
DAY 2 · From sprint to judged pitch
Demo sprint, high-quality decks and product sites with AI Agents & Skills, public deploy, judged pitches with innovation awards, and public-good innovation certificates (09:00–17:30).
Why hackathon
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Why a hackathon, as a way to grow
The Growth Loop
A hackathon isn't a competition format — it's a future-facing way to grow.
It creates an environment no classroom can offer: real open problems, diverse teammates, feedback from the outside world. Loop after loop, kids turn ideas into work — and feedback into the next creation.
A growth loop that keeps running
Problems are open
One real need allows many very different solutions — there's no single answer.
Paths are uncertain
Kids judge priorities, choose tools and adjust direction themselves.
Peers are diverse
Product, research, design, tech, expression, hardware — every skill can contribute.
Feedback is external
Work must be understood, used, questioned and validated by others.
Growth path
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The full growth path
The real world poses problems; Liaoye youth answer with AI. From open participation to deep companionship — enter at any layer.
Community core · all ages, all year
01Liaoye AI Co-creation Community
A year-round community for discovering and co-creating around AI.
Offline selection · real hackathon
0248-Hour Challenge Camp
48 hours from idea to Demo, facing real questions from judges.
Youth practice · by selection
03Liaoye Youth AI Club
Claim real problems, form a team, and build a first Demo with AI.
Deep companionship · 12 weeks
043-Month AI Growth Plan
Three months of sustained project companionship and a growth loop.
Long-term stage
05Long-term AI Co-creation
Teams, co-founders, and continuous progress in frontier AI.
Founders
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Founders
Liaoye AI Hackathon Club was co-founded by three people with backgrounds in technology, investment, industry and international innovation — focused on youth AI project practice, hackathon training and global innovation skills.
We want kids to learn not just how to operate AI tools, but to go through a complete growth arc in a real project: spotting a problem, designing a solution, building an AI Demo, collaborating as a team, and pitching in English.
Cding
Tencent MyApp founding team ｜ Fudan University, M.S. in CS
Cding holds a CS degree from Fudan University and has 20+ years on the front line of internet and tech, having served as VP at Tencent IoT and Tencent MyApp, with deep work in LLMs, AIGC, visual AI and product commercialization.
At Liaoye, Cding leads the technical system, judgment of AI project direction, and product-implementation guidance. Beyond teaching tools, he helps kids understand how technology shifts, judge a project's direction, and learn to choose, prioritize and push forward in complex projects.
For kids, this means exposure not to single-tool tutorials, but to the way of thinking behind real internet products and AI application development.
Angel
Sun Yat-sen University ｜ finance, law & investment ｜ early-stage tech investor
Angel graduated from Sun Yat-sen University with a combined finance, law and investment background, and has long invested in early-stage tech projects, focusing on AI, tech innovation, hardware and industry applications.
At Liaoye, Angel leads the overall program design, youth growth-path planning, competition selection, and judgment of a project's commercial value and feasibility.
Angel cares not only about what a child built, but whether they truly understand user needs, project value, application scenarios and how to articulate them. From an investor's and judge's view, she helps kids see whether an AI project genuinely has problem-awareness, originality and room for sustainable iteration.
Bella
International innovative consumer industry ｜ China rep of a Nasdaq-listed company
Bella has experience in the international tech industry and innovative consumer sectors, having served as China representative for a Nasdaq-listed Israeli company; she is also a finance expert in Sichuan Development Holding's expert pool and a guest finance lecturer at He Jun Consulting.
At Liaoye, Bella brings an international industry perspective, hands-on experience landing innovative projects, and financial & business analysis — helping kids understand real-world tech application, market demand and project expression.
Her involvement pushes the Club's training beyond "making a good-looking Demo" toward deeper questions: who can this project serve? Is there a real scenario? Could it one day enter industries like healthcare, education, hardware, family or city life?
Who it's for
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Who it's for
✓A good fit
- Kids curious about AI, tech, real problems and hands-on creation
- No coding required — but willing to observe, think, express, try, collaborate
- Open to having their work given feedback and revised
- Open to youth aged 8–18
×Not a fit (for now)
- Want only a relaxed taste, or someone else to do the work
- Only accept fixed answers, unwilling to express or collaborate
- Treat “winning a prize” as the only goal
Our principles
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What we stand by
These “won'ts” are exactly what sets us apart from the market.
- ✦We don't promise prizes, but polish projects to real competition standards
- ✦We don't do the work for kids — we value their real participation and contribution
- ✦We don't pad résumés or promise admissions, but help kids build real experience
- ✦We don't lock a tool list — we update it, but never pile on immature tools
- ✦We don't overstate “going global,” but systematically train English project expression
FAQ
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FAQ
Can my child join without coding?+
Yes. Real AI projects need problem-spotting, research, product, design, expression, video and hardware roles. No coding never means no participation.
Do you guarantee prizes or admissions?+
No. We value real participation, expression and growth, and help kids build a showable project record.
Do parents need to know AI?+
No. Parents don't need to join the project or learn AI tools beforehand.
What ages is it for?+
Youth aged 8–18. No coding background needed.
How do I enroll, and what's the cost?+
You can register for the 48-hour camp online on this site; for other programs' dates, seats and fees, reach us on WeChat — our advisor will recommend a fit for your child.
Which cities host the 48-hour camp next?+
China Tour, now enrolling: Shenzhen Sep 26–27 (weekend) and Hangzhou Oct 5–6 (National Day holiday) — both two days offline with no all-nighters; register online on this site. Guangzhou Aug 1–2, Hangzhou Aug 8–9, Shenzhen Aug 22–23 and Fuzhou Sep 5–6 have been held. Internationally: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Sep 19–20, Penang on Oct 24–25, and Johor Bahru on Nov 28–29.
How is a hackathon different from a typical AI camp?+
A typical AI camp has a teacher demo tools while kids copy a template project. A hackathon puts kids in a real project arena — finding their own problems, teaming up on-site, building different AI Demos, pitching on stage, and taking questions from multi-perspective judges. It trains problem awareness, collaboration, expression, and turning ideas into real work.
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