AI for Youth Academy Future Scholars Research Initiative

Design your own monster and turn it into a real web page! You'll use a coding agent (Claude Code or Codex) to build it, publish your monster to project.foryouth.net, and learn GitHub to save and share your work.

You don't need to know how to code to start — your job is to describe what you want, and the coding agent helps make it real.

Week-by-week plan

Week 01 Completed

Intro to coding agents

Meet the coding agent — an AI tool that writes code with you. We used Claude Code and/or Codex to design a monster and publish it to project.foryouth.net. You learned how to describe what you want clearly and watch your idea become a web page.

Week 02 Completed

Intro to GitHub

This week we learn GitHub — where programmers save their code, keep a history of every change, and collaborate with others. You'll learn what a repository and a commit are, and how to safely back up your monster project to the cloud.

Week 03 This week

Make your monster move: SVG + GSAP

This week your monster comes to life! You'll meet SVG — a way to draw shapes (circles, eyes, teeth) with code so they stay crisp at any size — and GSAP, a popular animation tool that makes those shapes bob, blink, and wave.

You don't know GSAP yet — and that's the whole point. You'll meet your first skill: a pack of expert instructions you hand your coding agent so it knows exactly how to use a new tool like GSAP. Add the GSAP skill, then just describe the motion you want in your own words (like "make the eyes blink every few seconds") and let the agent do the rest.

Skills

  • Coding agents
  • GitHub
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SVG
  • GSAP
  • Skills