AstroThink
App Incubator
You're not just a student. You're a Lead Engineer at AstroThink HQ. Learn design thinking, build real apps, and use AI like a pro.
📡 Mission Overview
8 modules · 30+ slides · Interactive activities · Real app building
The Launchpad
What is an app? What are UI and UX? Meet your mission and blast off!
Design Thinking Fuel
Learn the 5 stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test.
UI vs. UX
What's the difference between how things look vs. how they feel?
Designing for Your Customer
Meet Zog — a 3-handed alien who wants pizza on Mars. Can you help?
The App Dev Lab
Paper prototyping, screen flows, and feedback loops — build it!
AI Vibecoding
Describe your app in plain English and watch AI build it live. No code needed!
Future Thinking
Apps in 2050. Ethics. How to design apps that are kind and safe.
Mission Complete
Final design challenge, peer critique, iteration, and graduation!
How AI Actually Thinks
Tokens, hallucinations, temperature, agents, RAG — the real science behind LLMs, explained for kids!
🚀 Module 1: The Launchpad
Introduction · 4 slides
🗺️ Module 2: Design Thinking Fuel
The 5 Stages · 7 slides
🎮 Module 3: UI vs. UX
The Space Suit vs. The Mission · 4 slides
👽 Module 4: Designing for Zog
Customer Empathy · 3 slides
📱 Module 5: The App Dev Lab
Prototype & Build · 4 slides
⚡ Module 6: AI Vibecoding
Build a real app with AI · Interactive
🌠 Module 7: Future Thinking
Stanford K12 Futures · 2 slides
🏆 Module 8: Mission Complete
Final Project · 3 slides
🧬 Module 9: How AI Actually Thinks
LLM Concepts for Kids · 10 slides