Innovation programmes usually end with student posters about innovation. StartupToGo ends with students who built something the world can use. Same six weeks. Different finish line.
Every school in Doha has "innovation" somewhere in its strategy document. Most students experience this as posters they design, presentations they deliver, and design-thinking sprints that end with a Post-it wall and no working artifact. The intent is right. The output isn't.
The fix is structural, not motivational. The students aren't the bottleneck. The structure is. When the only success metric is "participate," the work stays performative. When the success metric becomes "ship something a stranger can use," the quality changes overnight.
StartupToGo is the structure. Six sessions, five modules, AI guidance the whole way, ending with a live product the student can open on their parent's phone. The AIA Lusail cohort proved the model in April 2026.
That was AIA Lusail in April 2026 — the inaugural school innovation programme of this format in Qatar. Every student finished. Every student shipped. Every student presented on Demo Day.
Read the AIA case study →STEAM programmes typically teach students about science, technology, engineering, art, and math through projects. StartupToGo is narrower and deeper: it teaches students to ship a real product on the open web in six sessions. The breadth of STEAM stays valuable; we sit alongside it as the applied build-something component.
Not a lecture about AI. Students use AI as a tool every session — AI-scored idea evaluation, AI prefill on the Business Model Canvas, AI insights on customer survey responses, AI feedback on the pitch deck. By Demo Day they are fluent in using AI to think, not afraid of it. That is the literacy modern admissions and modern employers are looking for.
A laptop or Chromebook per student and a stable internet connection. Replit sponsors all the platform coding credits — zero technology cost on your side. No software install, no IT setup. Students log into the AI-guided platform; that is it.
All three. AIA Lusail ran it as an after-school cohort. Other schools are slotting it into an existing Innovation Elective. Some are running it as a six-week intensive inside Term 3. The cohort format flexes to whatever schedule your school already has — six sessions of 90 minutes each.
Your facilitator now has the framework. Subsequent cohorts run with less external support — by Year 2, most schools run the programme independently, with StartupToGo providing platform access, Demo Day coordination, and ongoing AI updates. Top-performing students from each cohort continue with ThirtyDays.ai mentorship beyond the programme.
Partnerships open for 2026/27. Cohorts run in one school term. You will hear from Bilal directly within 24 hours.