Back to School

AI & Weekends·India

A 15-day online AI build sprint for 50 individuals, with Codex workshops, AWS compute credits, Dodo payment credits, office hours and an in-person Demo Day in Bengaluru.

What you get

Not publishedIn-kind

“AWS compute and infrastructure credits and Dodo payment credits. The credit amounts are not published.”

Strings attachedParticipants must commit to the full 15-day sprint, attend the listed live sessions, spend two to three focused hours building on most days, test with real users and launch their work publicly.

Can you apply

VC backingNot required

Referral or partnerNot required

Registered companyNot required

IndividualsEligible

Open sourcenot stated

CountriesOpen worldwide

Before you applyApplicants should bring a problem or area they care about and people they can speak with about it. A polished idea and coding experience are not required.

The programme is for AI-curious people who are ready to build, have a real problem in mind and people they can talk to, can commit to all 15 days, and are willing to launch publicly. It welcomes engineers, designers, product managers, marketers, creators, founders and other builders. Coding experience is not required. There are 50 spots.

When

Open now

Back to School 2026open, no deadline published

What AI & Weekends funds

An Indian community of builders, designers and founders that runs practical AI co-builds across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. Its Back to School programme helps individuals build and launch a product with AI in 15 days.

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Details

Back to School is a 15-day online build programme run by AI & Weekends. Participants choose a problem, speak with users, build with Codex, deploy on AWS, add payments with Dodo Payments and launch publicly. The programme includes workshops, office hours, peer reviews and launch support. It ends with an in-person showcase at Bengaluru Tech Week. AWS compute and infrastructure credits and Dodo payment credits are included, but the organisers publish no credit values, cash award, investment terms, equity terms or participation fee.

Apply on AI & Weekends

Read off the AI & Weekends page on 29 Aug 2026. Funders move amounts and eligibility without announcing it, so confirm any figure here before you count on it.