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Space and AI, taught live in small groups every Saturday or Sunday. A paid add-on to any Progmetics programme, open to new families too.

ORBIT

Everything school doesn’t have time to teach.

The syllabus has to fit five subjects into five days. It was never going to have room for how a rocket actually gets to orbit, or what a real artificial intelligence model is doing when it answers a question. That isn’t a school failing. It’s just what a syllabus is.

Orbit is where that goes instead: two live, small-group tracks, Space & the Solar System and AI Literacy, taught on Saturdays and Sundays for children already learning something else the other five days.

A paid add-on, priced separately from the core programme. AED 499 per 10-week term.

What a term covers

  • 10 weeks, one live class a week
  • Small groups, grouped by age
  • Real instructor, not a recorded video
  • Hands-on activities between classes
  • A certificate on completion
  • Levels that build year on year: 101, then 201, then 202

Saturday or Sunday, Gulf Standard Time. Open to any child aged 8 to 18, Progmetics family or not.

Two tracks

Pick a curiosity, not a subject

Space & the Solar System

From the Sun, Moon and planets to galaxies, telescopes and real space missions. Three sequential levels, each a full 10-week term.

  • Level 1 · Grades 3–5: Space Explorers, Our Solar System
  • Level 2 · Grades 6–8: Space Explorers, Beyond Our Solar System
  • Level 3 · Grades 9–12: Astrophysics & Space Careers

AI Literacy

What AI actually is, how it learns, and how to build something small with it, not just how to use it. Three sequential levels, each a full 10-week term.

  • Level 1 · Grades 3–5: AI Explorers Jr, What is AI?
  • Level 2 · Grades 6–8: AI Builders, How AI Really Works
  • Level 3 · Grades 9–12: Applied AI, Build, Understand, Apply
The full syllabus

Ten sessions, in order, per level

Space & the Solar System

Level 1 · Grades 3–5 · Space Explorers: Our Solar System
  1. Welcome to Space. What space is, Earth’s place in it, fold a mini rocket
  2. The Sun & Earth. Day and night, the seasons, a simple model activity
  3. The Moon. Phases, why it changes shape, a moon-phase calendar
  4. Meet the Planets I. Mercury, Venus and Mars, the rocky worlds
  5. Meet the Planets II. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the gas giants
  6. How Big Is Space? A scale activity, the real distances involved
  7. Stars. What they are, how they form, why they twinkle
  8. Constellations. The easy ones to find, the myths behind them
  9. Astronauts & Rockets. How humans reach space, a balloon-rocket experiment
  10. Final Mission. A space trivia game, design-your-own-planet project, certificate
Level 2 · Grades 6–8 · Space Explorers: Beyond Our Solar System
  1. Recap and the bigger picture. What lies beyond our solar system
  2. Gravity & Orbits. Why planets don’t fall into the Sun
  3. Eclipses & Tides. Solar and lunar eclipses, how the Moon moves oceans
  4. Telescopes. How they work, hands-on with an app or a home telescope
  5. Stars in Depth. A star’s life from birth to supernova or black hole
  6. Our Galaxy. The Milky Way’s structure, where we sit inside it
  7. Beyond the Milky Way. Other galaxies, the observable universe
  8. Exoplanets. How we find planets around other stars
  9. Real Space Missions. ISRO and NASA missions, a mini mission-design challenge
  10. Capstone. A real night-sky observation challenge, present findings, certificate
Level 3 · Grades 9–12 · Astrophysics & Space Careers
  1. Physics of Motion in Space. Kepler’s and Newton’s laws, orbital mechanics
  2. Light & Spectroscopy. How we know what stars are made of
  3. Stellar Evolution. Main sequence stars to white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes
  4. Cosmology Basics. The Big Bang, an expanding universe, dark matter and dark energy
  5. Rocket Science 101. Thrust, propulsion, staging, a simplified rocket equation
  6. Satellites & Orbits. Low and geostationary orbits, GPS, comms and weather satellites
  7. Space Careers. Real paths at ISRO, NASA and the private space industry
  8. Space Data Project. Small groups analyse real public mission data
  9. Mission Design Challenge. Teams design a hypothetical Mars mission
  10. Capstone Presentation. Present to instructor and parents, certificate and portfolio piece

AI Literacy

Level 1 · Grades 3–5 · AI Explorers Jr: What is AI?
  1. What Is AI? AI in daily life, is a robot really “smart”?
  2. Teaching Computers to See. A kid-friendly image-recognition demo
  3. Teaching Computers to Listen. How voice assistants understand speech
  4. AI That Talks. Chatbots, and how they choose their replies
  5. Smart or Just Fast? An AI-versus-human quiz game
  6. Training a Robot Brain. An unplugged sorting game explaining “training data”
  7. AI Helpers Around Us. A spot-the-AI scavenger hunt in everyday apps
  8. Is AI Always Right? Simple mistakes and bias, why humans double-check
  9. Being Safe & Kind with AI. Privacy basics, good digital citizenship
  10. Build Your Own Mini AI. A guided model-training project, certificate
Level 2 · Grades 6–8 · AI Builders: How AI Really Works
  1. AI vs. ML vs. Deep Learning. The key definitions, simplified
  2. How Machines Learn. Supervised learning via a classify-the-fruit activity
  3. Data Is the Fuel. Why data quality matters, “garbage in, garbage out”
  4. Build a Simple Classifier. A hands-on, no-code image classifier
  5. Intro to Prompting. How large language models work, writing good prompts
  6. AI for Creativity. Art, music and writing tools, and a discussion on originality
  7. Bias & Fairness in AI. Real examples, why diverse data matters
  8. AI in the Real World. Healthcare, self-driving cars, agriculture
  9. Build a Chatbot. A guided, small-group, no-code chatbot build
  10. Capstone Showcase. Present the project, certificate
Level 3 · Grades 9–12 · Applied AI: Build, Understand, Apply
  1. Foundations. The AI, ML and deep-learning landscape, real-world applications
  2. Python Basics for AI. A quick primer for anyone without prior coding
  3. Data & Features. Working hands-on with a real, simple dataset
  4. Building Your First Model. A guided, hands-on classifier-training session
  5. Understanding Large Language Models. How tools like ChatGPT generate text
  6. AI Ethics & Bias. Deepfakes, misinformation, algorithmic bias
  7. AI & the Future of Work. Which skills stay valuable
  8. Build Your Own AI Application. Project work begins
  9. Project Work & Mentoring. A teacher-guided build and troubleshooting session
  10. Capstone Presentation. Present to instructor and parents, certificate and portfolio piece
Pricing

One price, either track

Per child, per term

AED 499

10 weeks, one live class a week, either track, any level. No registration fee.

  • Small group, grouped by age
  • Live instructor every session
  • Certificate on completion
  • No card details needed for the free demo
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Existing Progmetics families and new families are both welcome. Orbit does not require enrolment in the core programme.

Set against the market

Weekend enrichment, priced elsewhere

Rates below are drawn from the published 2026 pricing of comparable live, instructor-led weekend and enrichment programmes.

Provider Format Rate Per 10-week term Approx. per session
Online live space-education cohort (India-based) Online, live, small group ₹5,000–7,000 / 12-week course AED 210–295 AED 18–25
Orbit: Space & the Solar System, or AI Literacy Online, live, small group AED 499 / term AED 499 AED 50
Orbit is priced for genuine live, small-group teaching by a real instructor every week, not a discount imitation of it.
Orbit, answered

Questions parents actually ask

Is this instead of the core Progmetics programme?

No. Orbit is a separate, paid add-on that runs on Saturdays or Sundays. It does not replace any weekday subject, and your child does not need to be enrolled in Regular Online Tuitions to join. New families are welcome directly into Orbit.

What age or grade should my child start at?

Each track has three levels, grouped the same way as our core grades: Level 1 for Grades 3–5, Level 2 for Grades 6–8, and Level 3 for Grades 9–12. Not sure which fits? Book a free demo and the instructor will tell you directly.

Do we have to pick one track forever?

No. A term is 10 weeks. Many families do one track one term and switch the next, or run both tracks in parallel on separate weekend days.

Is there a free demo, and do you need payment details for it?

Yes, and no. Book a free demo class the same way you would for any Progmetics subject. No card details are taken to book it.

Does my child get anything to show for it?

A certificate at the end of every completed level, and from Level 3 onward, a small project or presentation your child can keep. Useful later for school portfolios or college applications.

How is this different from the AI and coding already inside CBSE?

CBSE’s own computational-thinking and AI modules in Classes 9 and 10 are compulsory, exam-linked, and taught as part of Regular Online Tuitions at no extra cost. Orbit’s AI Literacy track is separate: no exam, no grade, open to any grade band from 3 to 12, and built to go deeper into how AI actually works rather than what the syllabus requires.

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